Senior DevOps Engineer

SmartChoice International GCC; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 300,000 - 540,000; Full time

Job summary

SmartChoice International GCC is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to design, build and operate scalable cloud infrastructure for a rapidly growing platform. You will own CI/CD pipelines, container platforms, security, observability and production reliability across environments.

The role demands hands-on AWS, Terraform/OpenTofu, Ansible, GitHub Actions, Docker, Kubernetes (EKS desirable), and a strong focus on security, automation and cost optimization.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in DevOps, SRE, infrastructure or platform engineering.
• Hands-on AWS experience including compute, networking, IAM and storage.
• IaC expertise with Terraform or OpenTofu and reusable modules.
• Experience with Ansible or similar configuration management.
• Strong CI/CD experience with GitHub Actions or equivalent.
• Deep expertise in Docker, Kubernetes and Helm; EKS desirable.
• Proficient with GitOps tools like ArgoCD or Flux.
• Experience with API gateways, auth, routing and rate limiting.
• Production databases such as PostgreSQL, Redis; managed services like RDS/Aurora.
• Secrets management with Vault/AWS Secrets Manager; OpenTelemetry observability.
• Strong monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch; Linux, Bash, Python.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain scalable infrastructure using infrastructure as code.
• Own CI/CD pipelines covering build, tests, security and production deployment.
• Manage containerised workloads across Kubernetes and cloud environments.
• Build safe deployment strategies with rollout, rollback and recovery.
• Manage cloud networking, API gateways, load balancing, DNS and certificates.
• Implement identity and secrets management with least-privilege access.
• Operate production databases with high availability, replication and recovery.
• Establish monitoring and operational metrics across infra and apps.
• Lead incident response and continuous improvement of reliability and security.
• Optimize infrastructure utilization and costs for high compute workloads.
• Help create reusable platform capabilities for teams to deploy services independently.

Skills

DevOps

SRE

Infrastructure

Platform engineering

Tools

AWS

Terraform/OpenTofu

Ansible

GitHub Actions

Docker

Kubernetes

Helm

ArgoCD/Flux

API Gateways

PostgreSQL

Redis

Vault/Secrets Manager

Prometheus

Grafana

CloudWatch

OpenTelemetry

Linux

Bash

Python

EKS

Job description

We are partnering with a growing technology organisation to appoint a Senior DevOps Engineer to build and operate the infrastructure behind a rapidly scaling technology platform.

This is a hands-on role spanning cloud infrastructure, automation, CI/CD, container platforms, security, observability and production reliability. You will work closely with engineering teams to create scalable, secure and resilient environments, while establishing the operational standards the wider technology function can build on.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and maintain scalable, reproducible infrastructure using infrastructure as code.
• Own CI/CD pipelines covering build, testing, security and production deployment.
• Manage containerised workloads across Kubernetes and cloud-based compute environments.
• Build safe deployment strategies with appropriate rollout, rollback and recovery mechanisms.
• Manage cloud networking, API gateways, load balancing, DNS, certificates and service connectivity.
• Implement identity, secrets management and least-privilege access across environments.
• Operate production databases, including high availability, replication, backup and recovery.
• Establish monitoring, alerting and operational metrics across infrastructure and applications.
• Lead incident response and continuously improve reliability, security and operational resilience.
• Optimise infrastructure utilisation and costs, including high-compute workloads.
• Help create reusable platform capabilities that enable engineering teams to deploy and operate services independently.

What We're Looking For

• 8+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, infrastructure or platform engineering.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS, including compute, networking, IAM and storage.
• Strong infrastructure-as-code experience with Terraform or OpenTofu, including reusable modules and state management.
• Experience with Ansible or comparable configuration management.
• Strong CI/CD experience, particularly GitHub Actions or equivalent.
• Strong experience with Docker, Kubernetes and Helm, with EKS highly desirable.
• Experience with GitOps, including ArgoCD or Flux.
• Experience with API gateways, authentication, routing and rate limiting.
• Production experience with PostgreSQL, RDS/Aurora and Redis or equivalent technologies.
• Experience with Vault, AWS Secrets Manager or Parameter Store.
• Strong observability experience with Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch and OpenTelemetry or equivalents.
• Comfortable working in Linux environments with Bash and Python.
• Strong understanding of security, reliability, incident management and production operations.

Advanced Infrastructure

Experience operating AI, machine learning or other high-compute workloads in production is highly desirable.

Relevant experience may include:

• GPU infrastructure and workload scheduling.
• Model-serving or inference platforms.
• Autoscaling and capacity management for compute-intensive workloads.
• Managing performance, utilisation and cost of high-compute environments.
• Technologies such as vLLM, Triton, TGI, KServe, Ray Serve, Amazon Bedrock or SageMaker.

Technical Environment

AWS | Terraform/OpenTofu | Ansible | GitHub Actions | Docker | Kubernetes/EKS | Helm | ArgoCD/Flux | API Gateways | PostgreSQL | RDS/Aurora | Redis | Vault/Secrets Manager | Prometheus | Grafana | CloudWatch | OpenTelemetry | Linux | Bash | Python