DevOps Engineer

Webook; Riyadh; Remote; USD 60,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative company is seeking a talented DevOps Engineer to join a dynamic team focused on cutting-edge products in the Middle East. This exciting role involves enhancing system scalability, automation, and performance while working with modern cloud technologies such as AWS and Google Cloud. You will be responsible for deploying and optimizing production systems, ensuring high uptime, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive continuous improvement. If you have a passion for technology and a desire to shape the future of software development, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years experience as a Senior DevOps Engineer.
• Strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure, especially AWS and GCP.

Responsibilities

• Improve scalability and automation of tools and processes.
• Deploy and optimize production systems for high uptime.

Skills

Automation

Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment

Cloud Infrastructure

Troubleshooting

Unix-based systems

Micro-service architecture

Version control (Git)

Container orchestration (Kubernetes)

Education

Bachelor in Computer Science

Tools

AWS

Google Cloud

Jenkins

Docker

Ansible

Terraform

Gitlab

Job description

We're looking for a 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 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.
• Google Certified Professional Cloud Architect, preferred.