Devops Engineer, Senior

Adree; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 320,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

Adree seeks a Senior DevOps Engineer to design, implement, and maintain secure, scalable infrastructure enabling automated software delivery. You will bridge development and operations through CI/CD, IaC, and automation, ensuring reliable deployments with full auditability.

You will lead pipelines, implement GitOps with Argo CD on OpenShift/Kubernetes, and collaborate with Security and QA to manage libraries and security tooling.

Qualifications

• 6–10+ years of professional experience in DevOps, SRE, and build & release automation in enterprise environments.

Responsibilities

• Engage with clients and stakeholders to gather platform requirements and understand automation goals.
• Deliver presentations and documentation demonstrating CI/CD capabilities, including agent pool management, environment provisioning, and enterprise pipeline design.
• Support product and engineering teams by creating reusable pipeline templates and secure shared libraries in Azure DevOps Server.
• Provide DevOps expertise across the product lifecycle to enforce advanced branching strategies, optimize build runner performance, and maintain Linux-based runner systems.
• Collaborate with Security and QA to manage 3rd-party libraries, integrate OpenText security tooling (Fortify SCA), and embed automated testing frameworks.
• Stay current with trends in containerization, automation workflows, and infrastructure delivery mechanisms to position solutions effectively.
• Conduct internal and client workshops to enable GitOps delivery and workload promotion using Argo CD to OpenShift/Kubernetes platforms.
• Participate in Agile development and release processes by integrating monitoring hooks and driving production deployment patterns (AppDynamics, BMC, Azure Monitoring).

Skills

CI/CD pipeline engineering

Agent pool configuration

Advanced branching strategies

Linux administration

Scripting

GitOps

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering/Information Technology

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Red Hat OpenShift

Terraform

Ansible

JFrog Artifactory

Job description

Adree is seeking a Devops Engineer, Senior to support product development and platform automation initiatives by leveraging technical and analytical expertise to design, implement, and maintain secure, scalable, and reliable infrastructure solutions that enable efficient and automated software delivery. The role focuses on bridging development and operations through CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and automation practices to ensure seamless deployment, system reliability, and standardized delivery processes with full visibility and auditability.

Key Responsibilities

• Engage with clients and stakeholders to gather platform requirements and understand digital transformation and automation goals.
• Deliver presentations and documentation that demonstrate CI/CD capabilities, including:
• Agent pool management
• Environment provisioning
• Enterprise pipeline design
• Support product and engineering teams by creating reusable pipeline templates and secure shared libraries in Azure DevOps Server.
• Provide DevOps expertise across the product lifecycle to:
• Enforce complex branching strategies
• Optimize build runner performance
• Maintain Linux-based runner systems
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Security and QA) to:
• Manage 3rd-party libraries
• Integrate OpenText security tooling (Fortify SCA)
• Embed automated testing automation frameworks
• Stay current with industry trends in containerization, automation workflows, and infrastructure delivery mechanisms to position solutions effectively.
• Conduct internal and client workshops to enable GitOps delivery and workload promotion using Argo CD to OpenShift/Kubernetes platforms.
• Participate in Agile development and release processes by integrating monitoring hooks and driving production deployment patterns, including:
• AppDynamics / BMC / Azure Monitoring

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical field.

Experience

• 6–10+ years of professional experience in:
• DevOps
• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
• Build & Release automation in enterprise environments
• Proven, hands‑on production delivery exposure (e.g., scaling live environments, not only sandbox/testing environments).
• Experience in government, heavily regulated, or complex enterprise sectors is highly preferred.

Skills & Competencies (Technical & Analytical + Soft)

• Deep expertise in:
• CI/CD pipeline engineering and secure pipeline patterns
• Agent pool configuration
• Advanced branching strategies
• Strong hands‑on containerization and orchestration experience:
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Red Hat OpenShift
• Practical infrastructure automation skills:
• Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform)
• Configuration management (Ansible)
• Linux administration and systems scripting
• Familiarity with enterprise artifact and dependency management:
• JFrog Artifactory
• Binary artifact and 3rd‑party library handling
• Analytical capability to implement secure application pipelines, including:
• Fortify SCA
• HashiCorp Vault secrets
• Sigstore / SecurEnvoy MFA verification setups
• Strong soft skills:
• Excellent communication
• Coaching mindset
• Cross-team collaboration (Developers, Security, QA)
• High ownership and accountability

Experience Summary (Must-Have Themes)

• Enterprise‑grade CI/CD template design and multi‑agent pool management
• Core infrastructure automation using IaC and configuration management
• GitOps continuous delivery execution into live production
• CI/CD + automation testing frameworks integrated with OpenText security validation
• Third‑party library compliance management and secure artifact storage
• Production‑level application profiling and monitoring hook setups
• Documentation authorship

Location: client site