Lead Observability and Site Reliability Engineer

Riyadh Air; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 260,000 - 460,000; Full time

Job summary

Riyadh Air seeks a senior Observability/SRE leader to own end-to-end visibility and reliability across a complex digital landscape. You will design and maintain a highly reliable global SaaS integration platform, partnering with engineering to embed observability into products and services.

You will bring 5+ years in Observability and SRE, with hands-on expertise in Splunk, Dynatrace, Grafana, and Datadog, shaping standards and driving proactive issue prevention.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years experience in Observability and Site Reliability Engineering.
• Hands-on experience with monitoring tools such as Splunk, Dynatrace, Grafana, Datadog.
• Knowledge of metrics, logs, traces correlation and mobile/web observability.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive enterprise-wide observability standards across multi-cloud environments.
• Lead proactive issue detection, automated resolution, and reliability improvements.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to embed observability insights into product enhancements.

Skills

Observability

Site Reliability Engineering

Tools

Splunk

Dynatrace

Grafana

Datadog

Job description

About the Company

Riyadh Air (RX), headquartered in the Saudi Capital, is the new national airline that’s shaping the future of flying. It seeks to lead the aviation industry by transforming Saudi Arabia into a global aviation and trade hub – a digitally native airline that will connect the kingdom to more than 100 destinations.

About the Role

Can you see what others miss, before it becomes a problem? Build the visibility that keeps an entire digital ecosystem running flawlessly.This is a pivotal role where you’ll take ownership of end-to-end visibility, reliability, and performance across a complex and rapidly evolving digital landscape. You’ll shape how we monitor, anticipate, and optimise every interaction across our platforms, from mobile apps to cloud services and third-party integrations.You’ll establish and drive enterprise-wide observability standards, ensuring every component is fully traceable, measurable, and continuously improving. Beyond that, you’ll lead the charge on proactive issue detection and resolution, embedding reliability into everything we do while enabling smarter, data-led decision-making across the organisation.At the core of this role, you’ll design, build and maintain a highly reliable global SaaS integration platform, driving high availability and resilient connectivity across multi-cloud environments.You’ll take a hands-on approach by working autonomously while providing technical leadership to engineering teams, underpinned by strong expertise in observability tools such as Splunk, Dynatrace, Grafana, Datadog and related platforms.

Importantly, driving proactive issue prevention and automated resolution would be key. As collaboration is central, you’ll partner closely with cross-functional teams to embed observability insights into product and service enhancements, ultimately elevating performance and customer experience.

This is a lead role where you’ll define standards, drive automation initiatives, and ensure our platforms are continuously optimised to support business growth and performance.

You’ll have the opportunity to design and shape observability capability at a scale driving resilience, performance, and seamless customer experiences across a critical digital ecosystem.

About You

Degree qualified, you will demonstrate a minimum of 5 years experience in Observability and Site reliability engineering across enterprise environments.

You'll bring hands on experience in monitoring tools such as Splunk, Dynatrace, Grafana, datadog etc.

We’d love to hear from you even more if you have knowledge in metrics,logs,traces correlation and mobileand web observability.

This is your opportunity to shape the future of air travel. Bring your best and show us why you can own this position within Riyadh Air.

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