DevOps Engineer

webook.com; Remote; SAR 299,000 - 450,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent event ticketing platform in Saudi Arabia seeks a skilled DevOps Engineer to enhance their infrastructure and deployment processes. This role offers the flexibility of remote work, aimed at candidates with 3-5 years' experience and a solid foundation in cloud technologies like AWS and GCP. The position emphasizes improving system performance and direct collaboration with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality solutions.

Qualifications

• Minimum of a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 3 to 5 years of experience as a Senior DevOps Engineer.
• Experience in GCP (preferred) and AWS certifications.
• Proven ability to maintain large-scale software products.

Responsibilities

• Improve scalability, robustness, and automation of tools and processes.
• Own the deployment and optimization of production systems.
• Contribute to the technology stack across web and API development.
• Ensure systems are operational, visible, and designed for auto-recovery.

Skills

DevOps

Scripting skills (Shell, Python)

Container orchestration (Kubernetes)

CI/CD mechanisms (Jenkins, GitLab)

Cloud Infrastructure (AWS, GCP)

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Ansible

Docker

Terraform

Git

Job description

Do you want to love what you do at work? Do you want to make a difference, an impact, transform people's 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're looking for, webook.com, 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 sales.

Job Summary

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 are 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, and expand capabilities to support new features.
• Own the deployment and optimization of production systems to ensure continuous integration, testing, and production deployment.
• Shape and implement strategic solutions so that our systems stay on the bleeding edge of technology.
• Contribute to the technology stack covering web development, API development, DB communication, performance, and security measures.
• Ensure systems are operational, visible, and designed for auto‑recovery in case of disaster.
• Responsible for end‑to‑end development and production system operations, including maintenance, monitoring (application, system, log), notification, automation, and backend operation.
• Improve system performance and stability and propose new technologies and tools.
• Collaborate with project, product, tech, and QA teams.
• Continuously improve DevOps tools, processes, and procedures.
• Build, maintain, and scale infrastructure for Production, QA, and Dev environments.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD systems and deploy automation solutions in public cloud environments 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 ensure end‑to‑end quality.
• Write and maintain infrastructure documentation.
• Work with third‑party vendors to resolve infrastructure issues.

Key Qualifications

• Minimum of a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 3 to 5 years of experience as a Senior DevOps Engineer.
• Experience in GCP (preferred) and AWS; AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional or Google Certified Professional Cloud Architect (preferred).
• Track record of building and maintaining large‑scale software products with high uptime.
• Experience delivering high‑traffic production systems, troubleshooting, automation, and regular operation.
• Familiarity with web development technology and exposure to build/deployment.
• Experience with CI/CD mechanisms using Jenkins, Nexus, Docker Registry, GitLab, Ansible/Terraform.
• Good knowledge of SaaS, Cloud Infrastructure, and other enterprise technologies (AWS).
• Experience with AWS and Google Cloud.
• Experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Strong scripting skills (Shell, 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 and distributed systems concepts.