DevOps Engineer

azmtalent; Saudi Arabia; On-site; SAR 200,000 - 350,000; Full time

Job summary

azmtalent seeks a skilled DevOps Engineer to design and maintain CI/CD pipelines, automate infrastructure with IaC, and manage cloud and on-prem deployments. You will work with Docker and Kubernetes to orchestrate containers, monitor systems, and implement robust security and disaster recovery practices.

The role emphasizes automation, collaboration with cross-functional teams, and improving platform reliability and deployment frequency while maintaining comprehensive docs and runbooks.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and manage CI/CD pipelines.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning using infrastructure as code.
• Deploy and maintain applications across cloud and on-prem environments.
• Manage containerized workloads using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Monitor system availability, performance, security, and capacity.
• Identify and resolve infrastructure, application, and deployment issues.
• Implement logging, alerting, backup, and disaster-recovery solutions.
• Apply security best practices throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Manage source-control strategies, release processes, and environment configurations.
• Improve platform reliability, scalability, and deployment frequency.
• Develop scripts and tools to reduce manual operational tasks.
• Maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and architecture diagrams.
• Participate in incident response, root-cause analysis, and on-call rotations.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to promote DevOps practices and continuous improvement.

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

IaC

Docker

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Ansible

Python

Linux

Monitoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering

Tools

Git

Jenkins

Job description

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and manageCI/CD pipelines.

• Automate infrastructure provisioning usingInfrastructure as Code (IaC).

• Deploy and maintain applications across cloud and on-premises environments.

• Manage containerized workloads usingDocker and Kubernetes.

• Monitor system availability, performance, security, and capacity.

• Identify and resolve infrastructure, application, and deployment issues.

• Implement logging, alerting, backup, and disaster-recovery solutions.

• Apply security best practices throughout the software development lifecycle.

• Manage source-control strategies, release processes, and environment configurations.

• Improve platform reliability, scalability, and deployment frequency.

• Develop scripts and tools to reduce manual operational tasks.

• Maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and architecture diagrams.

• Participate in incident response, root-cause analysis, and on-call rotations.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to promote DevOps practices and continuous improvement.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

• Proven experience in DevOps, cloud engineering, site reliability engineering, or systems administration.

• Experience with at least one major cloud platform:AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud.

• Strong knowledge of Linux administration and networking fundamentals.

• Experience with CI/CD tools such asGitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, or Azure DevOps.

• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools such asTerraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi.

• Experience with configuration-management tools such asAnsible, Puppet, or Chef.

• Hands-on knowledge of Docker and container-orchestration platforms.

• Scripting experience usingPython, Bash, or PowerShell.

• Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools such asPrometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk, or the ELK Stack.

• Understanding of secrets management, identity and access management, and cloud security principles.

• Strong troubleshooting, communication, and collaboration skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Relevant cloud or Kubernetes certifications.

• Experience managing production Kubernetes environments.

• Familiarity with GitOps tools such as Argo CD or Flux.

• Knowledge of service meshes, serverless platforms, and microservices architecture.

• Experience with database operations, performance tuning, and disaster recovery.

• Understanding of SRE concepts, including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and incident management.

• Experience supporting high-availability and large-scale distributed systems.

Key Performance Indicators

• Deployment frequency and lead time for changes

• Application and infrastructure availability

• Mean time to detect and recover from incidents

• Change-failure rate

• Percentage of infrastructure managed through automation

• Security and compliance findings

• Reduction in manual operational work