DevOps Engineer

WEbook, Inc.; Riyadh; Remote; USD 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading event ticketing platform in Saudi Arabia is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join their innovative team. This remote role involves enhancing system performance, managing cloud infrastructure, and ensuring high uptime for their services. Ideal candidates will have strong scripting skills and experience with AWS and Google Cloud, along with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field. Join us to make a significant impact in the tech landscape of the Middle East.

Qualifications

• 3 to 5 years of experience as Senior DevOps.
• Experience with AWS and Google Cloud preferred.
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional preferred.

Responsibilities

• Improve scalability, robustness, and automation of tools and processes.
• Ensure production systems are operational and visible.
• Develop and maintain Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery systems.

Skills

Automation

Scripting

Troubleshooting

Cloud Infrastructure

Continuous Integration

Container Orchestration

Education

Bachelor's in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS

Google Cloud

Docker

Jenkins

Ansible

Terraform

Kubernetes

Git

Job description

Do you want to love what you do at work? Do you want to make a difference, an impact, and transform peoples lives? Do you want to work with a team that believes in disrupting the normal, boring, and average?

If yes, then this is the job you are looking for ,webook.com is Saudi’s #1 event ticketing and experience booking platform in terms of technology, features, agility, revenue serving some of the largest mega events in the Kingdom surpassing over 2 billion in sales.webook.com is part of the Supertech Group also consisting of UXBERT Labs, one of the best digital and user experience design agencies in the GCC, along with Kafu Games, the largest esports tournament platform in MENA.

Job Summary:

We're looking for DevOps Engineer to join a cutting-edge team that is working on some of the most exciting products being launched in the Middle East. Apply today and if you fit what we're looking for we'll be in touch straight away. For this role, we're happy to consider candidates who are anywhere in the world and looking for a remote opportunity.

Key Responsibilities:

• Focus on improving scalability, robustness and automation of our tools and processes, as well as expanding capabilities to support new features

• A sense of ownership which will be responsible for the deployment and optimization of our production systems
• The ability to ensure our support tools work and enable continuous integration, testing and production deployment
• As an engineer, you will be shaping and implementing strategic solutions to ensure our systems stays on the bleeding edge of technology
• You will be contributing to the technology stack, covering web development, API development, DB communication/ handshake, performance, and security measures
• You will help to make sure systems are operational, visible, and designed for auto-recovery in case of disaster
• Responsible for the end to end development and production system operations including system maintenance, monitoring (application, system, log), notification, automation, and backend operation
• Visibility and Improvement in system performance and stability
• Propose new technologies and tools to improve development, testing, and production operations
• Work closely with various teams across functions including the project team, product team, tech team, and QA team
• Continually improve DevOps tools, processes, and procedures
• Build, maintain, and scale infrastructure for Production, QA, and Dev environments
• Develop and maintain Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery systems
• Deploy automation solutions in a public cloud environment such as AWS
• Participate in the ongoing design, implementation, and maintenance of systems and tools across our cloud stack
• Work closely with Development and QA teams to help ensure end-to-end quality
• Write and maintain infrastructure documentation
• Work with third-party vendors to resolve infrastructure issues
• A track record of building and maintaining large-scale software products
• Experience delivering high uptime Software-as-a-Service applications
• Demonstrated ability to proactively manage tasks, projects and issues

• Experience in handling high traffic production system, troubleshooting, automation, and regular operation.
• Familiarity with web development technology and exposure to their build/ deployment.
• Experience with Continuous Integration/ Deployment mechanism using Jenkins, Nexus, Docker Registry, Gitlab, Ansible/Terraform.
• Good Knowledge of SaaS, Cloud Infrastructure and other enterprise-related technologies (AWS).
• Experience with AWS and Google Cloud.
• Experience with Container orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Strong scripting skills (Shell scripting, Python, etc.)
• Strong knowledge of Unix-based systems.
• Experience with version control (Git).
• Deployment and configuration tools (Ansible, Chef, Puppet, etc.)
• Familiarity with micro-service architecture (including the understanding of distributed systems concepts and principles).

Key Qualifications:

• Minimum of bachelors in Computer Science or related field
• Minimum of 3 to 5 years of experience as Senior DevOps
• Experience in GCP - preferred
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional, preferred
• Google Certified Professional Cloud Architect, preferred