Hands-on Kubernetes Engineer — Design, Deploy, Scale

exequt MENA; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 201,000 - 335,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Mentorship program

High-impact projects

Performance pay

Growth culture

Job summary

ExeQut is hiring a Kubernetes Engineer/Administrator to design, deploy, and manage Kubernetes clusters across production and non-production environments in Saudi Arabia. The role emphasizes high availability, security, and scalability for containerized workloads.

You will implement container orchestration, monitor cluster health, configure RBAC and security controls, and integrate with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tools for streamlined deployments.

Qualifications

• 3–7+ years in infrastructure/DevOps with hands-on Kubernetes experience
• Strong hands-on Kubernetes administration and architecture
• Good knowledge of Linux, Docker/containers, networking, storage, and virtualization
• Experience with Helm and Kubernetes YAML manifests
• Knowledge of Kubernetes security, RBAC, networking, and troubleshooting
• Saudi Nationality required

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, configure, and manage Kubernetes clusters
• Manage Pods, Deployments, Services, ConfigMaps, Secrets, Ingress, Namespaces, and PVs
• Implement container orchestration with Kubernetes and Docker runtimes
• Monitor cluster health, performance, availability, and resources
• Configure RBAC, network policies, security controls, and secrets management
• Manage upgrades, patching, scaling, backup, and disaster recovery
• Troubleshoot application, networking, storage, and cluster issues
• Implement HA and scalability for Kubernetes workloads
• Integrate Kubernetes with CI/CD, monitoring, logging, and DevOps tools
• Automate infrastructure and deployments using Helm, Terraform, Ansible
• Work with cloud Kubernetes platforms like OpenShift, AKS, EKS, GKE where applicable

Skills

Kubernetes

Linux

Networking

Containers/Docker

RBAC/Security

Tools

Helm

Terraform

Ansible

OpenShift

CI/CD

Kubernetes YAML

Job description

ExeQut is hiring a Kubernetes Engineer/Administrator to design, deploy, and manage Kubernetes clusters across production and non-production environments in Saudi Arabia. The role emphasizes high availability, security, and scalability for containerized workloads.

You will implement container orchestration, monitor cluster health, configure RBAC and security controls, and integrate with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tools for streamlined deployments.