Lead Observability and Site Reliability Engineer

Riyadh Air | طيران الرياض; Riyadh Region; On-site; SAR 350,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

Riyadh Air seeks a Lead Observability and Site Reliability Engineer to own end-to-end visibility, reliability, and performance across a complex digital landscape. You will design and implement monitoring for mobile apps, cloud services, and third-party integrations, driving proactive issue detection and automated resolution.

Lead standards, automation, and multi-cloud connectivity, partnering with cross-functional teams to embed observability insights into product improvements and customer

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years in observability and site reliability engineering.
• Hands-on with monitoring tools: Splunk, Dynatrace, Grafana, Datadog.
• Knowledge of metrics, logs, traces correlation.
• Experience across enterprise-scale, multi-cloud architectures.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end observability strategy and platform reliability.
• Define standards and drive automation initiatives.
• Collaborate with engineering and product teams to improve performance.

Skills

Observability

SRE

Cloud monitoring

Cross-functional

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Splunk

Dynatrace

Grafana

Datadog

Job description

About The Role

Riyadh Air (RX), headquartered in the Saudi Capital, is the new national airline that is 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.

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 i n 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 mobile and 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.