Senior DevOps Engineer: Cloud, Kubernetes & GitOps Lead

Ghanem | غانم

Saudi Arabia

On-site

SAR 320,000 - 520,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Job summary

Ghanem seeks a Senior DevOps Engineer to own the infrastructure and delivery systems behind its real estate technology platform in Saudi Arabia. You will ensure production reliability, secure environments, and streamlined developer workflows across cloud and on-premises services.

You will manage scalable infrastructure with GCP, Kubernetes (GKE), Terraform, and GitOps tools, while improving CI/CD pipelines and incident response practices to support rapid, safe software delivery.

Qualifications

5+ years of experience in DevOps, platform engineering, or site reliability engineering.
Strong GCP and Kubernetes experience, including GKE, IAM, networking, Workload Identity.
Practical Terraform experience with modular configuration, state management, drift investigation, and controlled changes.
Experience building CI/CD pipelines and operating GitOps with GitHub Actions and Argo CD.
Strong Linux, container, and network troubleshooting skills, plus scripting in Bash or Python.
Experience with cloud observability, incident response, backups, recovery testing, and operating database-dependent applications.
Ability to explain operational risk, document procedures, and work with engineers to resolve failures across service boundaries.

Responsibilities

Operate and improve GCP and GKE environments across production, staging, and internal services, including networking, ingress, TLS, workload configuration, and scaling.
Maintain infrastructure as code with Terraform and GitOps with Argo CD, Helm, and Kustomize, keeping changes reproducible, reviewable, and recoverable.
Improve GitHub Actions pipelines for backend services, web applications, and mobile releases, including build runners, artifact management, quality gates, and deployment automation.
Design safe release and rollback procedures, and coordinate application changes, database migrations, configuration, and post-deployment validation.
Build actionable monitoring and alerting for availability, latency, errors, and capacity, and investigate incidents using Google Cloud tools, structured logs, and Kubernetes diagnostics.
Strengthen IAM, Workload Identity, secret management, access controls, and environment isolation, and support security reviews and evidence collection.
Own backup and recovery procedures with service owners, validate restores, and maintain practical incident and disaster recovery runbooks.
Improve cost efficiency and capacity planning without compromising reliability, remove manual operational work, and help engineers diagnose platform problems.