Sr. Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
Role Overview
About SiFi
SiFi is a B2B Fin-Tech company focused on transforming expense management for businesses in Saudi Arabia. As a licensed Electronic Money Institution (EMI) from the Saudi Central Bank, the company provides tools designed to simplify finance management. SiFi is currently expanding its operations in Ar Riyad, specifically in Riyadh.
Position Overview
SiFi is seeking a Sr. Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to manage the reliability, performance, and scalability of its production systems. This full-time role involves designing, automating, and operating mission-critical environments, including Kubernetes clusters, database disaster recovery, workflow orchestration, and multi-region networking. The position is suited for engineers who focus on systems, combining infrastructure, automation, and diagnostic reasoning to achieve operational excellence.
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Job description
About SiFi
SiFi is a B2B Fin-Tech company focused on transforming expense management for businesses in Saudi Arabia. As a licensed Electronic Money Institution (EMI) from the Saudi Central Bank, the company provides tools designed to simplify finance management. SiFi is currently expanding its operations in Ar Riyad, specifically in Riyadh.
Position Overview
SiFi is seeking a Sr. Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to manage the reliability, performance, and scalability of its production systems. This full-time role involves designing, automating, and operating mission-critical environments, including Kubernetes clusters, database disaster recovery, workflow orchestration, and multi-region networking. The position is suited for engineers who focus on systems, combining infrastructure, automation, and diagnostic reasoning to achieve operational excellence.
Key Responsibilities
- Maintain and evolve multi-region cloud infrastructure using Terraform-based Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
- Operate and optimize Kubernetes (OKE) clusters for microservices, data pipelines, and workflow orchestration.
- Manage SQL Server backup/restore pipelines, conduct DR testing, and optimize performance.
- Ensure high availability for .NET and Python applications behind load balancers and WAF.
- Design and maintain cross-network connectivity (DRGs, LPGs, VCNs, subnets, and NSGs).
- Build and maintain a centralized orchestration platform integrated with alerting and notification systems.
- Develop self-healing, monitoring, and auto-remediation scripts for infrastructure and databases.
- Implement logging, metrics, and tracing pipelines.
- Automate recurring operational tasks using Python, Bash, and PowerShell.
- Manage GitHub Actions and Octopus Deploy pipelines for backend and data services.
- Apply security principles including least privilege, network segmentation, secure credentials, and encrypted communications.
- Promote GitOps and Infrastructure-as-Code practices.
- Collaborate with developers to embed reliability and resilience into releases.
- Lead incident response, conduct blameless post-mortems, and implement improvements.
- Partner with engineering teams to drive design and code-level reliability improvements.
- Conduct capacity planning, cost optimization, and system tuning.
- Mentor engineers in automation, observability, and root-cause analysis.
- Candidate Profile
- The ideal candidate will have 5-10 years of experience and demonstrate a systematic approach to problem-solving, validating assumptions with data. This role requires an engineer who views incidents as opportunities for design and automation improvements, relying on metrics, logs, and tracing for diagnostics. Effective communication of findings and documentation of learnings are essential, along with a commitment to continuously refining problem detection, escalation, and resolution processes.
- Work Type and Location
- This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Ar Riyad.
Application Process
- Further details regarding the application process and salary will be discussed with qualified candidates.
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