Senior DevOps Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Saudi Arabia, +2 more countries.

📋 Description

• Manage and enhance GCP and GKE environments across production, staging, and internal services, focusing on networking, ingress, TLS, workload configuration, and scaling.

• Sustain infrastructure as code using Terraform and GitOps with Argo CD, Helm, and Kustomize, ensuring changes are reproducible, reviewable, and recoverable.

• Optimize GitHub Actions pipelines for backend services, web applications, and mobile releases, including build runners, artifact management, quality gates, and deployment automation.

• Develop secure release and rollback strategies, coordinating application modifications, database migrations, configuration, and post-deployment validation.

• Establish actionable monitoring and alerting for availability, latency, errors, and capacity, and analyze incidents utilizing Google Cloud tools, structured logs, and Kubernetes diagnostics.

• Enhance IAM, Workload Identity, secret management, access controls, and environment isolation, while supporting security reviews and evidence gathering.

• Take ownership of backup and recovery processes with service owners, validate restores, and maintain practical incident and disaster recovery runbooks.

• Improve cost efficiency and capacity planning while ensuring reliability, eliminating manual operational tasks, and assisting engineers in diagnosing platform issues.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in DevOps, platform engineering, or site reliability engineering, with hands-on responsibility for production systems.

• Extensive experience with GCP and Kubernetes, including GKE, IAM, networking, Workload Identity, storage, and service exposure.

• Solid practical experience with Terraform, including modular configuration, state management, drift investigation, and controlled changes.

• Proven experience in building CI/CD pipelines and managing GitOps delivery with tools such as GitHub Actions and Argo CD.

• Strong troubleshooting skills in Linux, containers, and networks, along with scripting proficiency in Bash, Python, or a similar language.

• Familiarity with cloud observability, incident response, backups, recovery testing, and operating applications reliant on databases.

• Capability to articulate operational risks, document procedures, and collaborate with engineers to address failures across service boundaries.

• Experience in supporting fintech or other environments that handle sensitive data with stringent reliability and audit requirements.

• Knowledge of Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL, Redis, Google Secret Manager, External Secrets, and Workload Identity Federation.

• Experience with self-hosted GitHub Actions runners, Flutter build and release pipelines, mobile signing, or OpenTelemetry.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package.

• Opportunities for professional growth and development.

• Flexible work environment and work-life balance.

• Collaborative and innovative team culture.