Platform Engineer – FinTech DevSecOps & SRE

Next Ventures; Saudi Arabia; On-site; SAR 180,000 - 340,000; Full time

Job summary

Next Ventures in Saudi Arabia seeks a hands-on Platform Engineer contractor to design, operate, secure, and improve shared platform services, focusing on self-hosted and cloud-native environments for fintech.

You will own DevSecOps, IaC with Terraform across GCP, OCI and on‑prem, manage GitLab and Vault Enterprise, and implement observability, SRE practices, and regulated governance. Collaboration with cybersecurity and governance teams is essential.

Qualifications

• Hands-on platform engineering, DevOps, SRE, or infra work in complex prod environments.
• Deep Kubernetes, containers, Linux, networking, storage, and distributed systems knowledge.
• Proven ability to build secure, reusable CI/CD and GitOps workflows at scale.
• Strong Terraform IaC experience with unit/state management and change control.
• Experience with at least one major cloud platform; GCP/OCI preferred.
• Scripting in Python, Bash, or Go and practical secure software development basics.
• Ability to work independently as a contractor, prioritize work, and communicate risks clearly.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, operate, and improve shared platform services across prod and non-prod.
• Administer Kubernetes-based platforms, including upgrades, capacity, networking, and DR.
• Develop IaC with Terraform across GCP, OCI, and on‑prem environments.
• Own DevOps CI/CD capabilities and reusable pipelines with governance and security.
• Manage self-hosted GitLab and GitLab Runner with HA/DR considerations.
• Set up and operate HashiCorp Vault Enterprise with HA/DR, namespaces, and policies.
• Integrate application security scanning (Checkmarx) into CI/CD pipelines.
• Build GitOps workflows, container registries, artifact management, and policy controls.
• Implement observability and SRE practices with metrics, logs, dashboards, alerts.
• Lead incident response, root-cause analysis, and production readiness reviews.

Skills

Kubernetes

Terraform

GitOps

CI/CD

Python/Bash/Go

Tools

GitLab

Vault

Checkmarx

GCP

OCI

Job description

Next Ventures in Saudi Arabia seeks a hands-on Platform Engineer contractor to design, operate, secure, and improve shared platform services, focusing on self-hosted and cloud-native environments for fintech.

You will own DevSecOps, IaC with Terraform across GCP, OCI and on‑prem, manage GitLab and Vault Enterprise, and implement observability, SRE practices, and regulated governance. Collaboration with cybersecurity and governance teams is essential.