DevOps Intern

Tabby | تابي; Riyadh; Hybrid; SAR 16,740 - 27,900; Full time

Job summary

Tabby invites driven interns to join its Infrastructure team for a hands-on DevOps engineering internship with real responsibility from day one. You will work on cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and security foundations across scalable product environments.

Open to Saudi nationals, this full‑time internship is office-first in Riyadh with a distributed engineering team across multiple countries, offering a clear path toward junior DevOps roles based on

Qualifications

• Strong fundamentals in Linux and operating systems.

Responsibilities

• Work on cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes-based platforms.
• Assist in automating infrastructure provisioning and configuration.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows.
• Help improve observability, monitoring, and alerting.
• Participate in incident analysis and postmortems.
• Work with infrastructure-as-code and configuration management.
• Support reliability, scalability, and security of systems.
• Read and understand existing platform architecture and tooling.

Skills

Linux basics

Networking basics

Cloud fundamentals

Kubernetes basics

Scripting

Git

Reliability mindset

English communication

Tools

CI/CD tooling

IaC tooling

Job description

Description

Tabby builds financial products used by millions of users across the GCC. Our services run on large-scale cloud infrastructure and must meet strict requirements for reliability, security, and regulatory compliance. This internship is not educational by default. It is an engineering role with real responsibility.

Department: Infrastructure

Location: KSA

Key Responsibilities

DevOps engineers at Tabby work on the runtime and development platforms that power all product teams. This includes cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and security foundations. The internship is designed for strong early‑career engineers who want to grow as infrastructure and platform engineers. Interns are embedded into real DevOps teams, work with production systems, and are expected to meet engineering standards from day one.

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

What you will do

• Work with cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes-based platforms
• Help automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows
• Assist in improving observability, monitoring, and alerting
• Participate in incident analysis and postmortems
• Work with infrastructure-as-code and configuration management
• Help improve reliability, scalability, and security of systems
• Read and understand existing platform architecture and tooling

Required

• Strong fundamentals in Linux and operating systems
• Understanding of basic networking concepts (TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS)
• Basic understanding of cloud platforms and distributed systems
• Familiarity with containers and Kubernetes concepts
• Ability to read and understand infrastructure and service configurations
• Basic scripting or programming skills
• Experience with Git and standard development workflows
• Structured thinking and attention to reliability
• Open to constructive feedback
• English sufficient for documentation and team communication

Strong plus

• Hands‑on experience with Kubernetes
• Experience with any public cloud (GCP, AWS, or Azure)
• Familiarity with CI/CD systems
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools
• Basic understanding of observability and monitoring
• Interest in security, reliability, and platform engineering

What we do not expect

• Expert‑level knowledge of Linux, Kubernetes, or any specific cloud platform
• Prior professional DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering experience
• Mastery of all listed tools, IaC frameworks, or CI/CD systems
• Deep knowledge of distributed systems, networking internals, or production reliability practices

Eligibility

• Saudi nationals only
• Self‑funded internship by Tabby
• We welcome both current students and fresh graduates
• We expect a full‑time level of engagement throughout the internship. The program is not part‑time: interns should be ready to contribute at a full working‑day pace. We understand that students may occasionally need flexibility for classes or exams, which can be aligned with the mentor in advance, but overall performance, ownership, and context involvement are expected at a full‑time level.

Format

• Paid internship
• Full integration into an engineering team
• Distributed engineering team across multiple countries
• Open to Saudi nationals (Saudi passport required); location flexible — candidates may be based outside KSA
• Office‑first in Riyadh where possible
• Clear path to a junior DevOps or platform engineer role based on performance

This internship is intentionally demanding and designed for candidates aiming for fast professional growth in DevOps and platform engineering.