Senior DevOps Engineer: Platform Reliability & Automation

SmartChoice International GCC; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 320,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

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

Experience with AWS, Terraform/OpenTofu, Ansible, GitHub Actions, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, ArgoCD/Flux and Vault is essential. Strong Linux, Bash and Python skills and a focus on reliability are required.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering.
• Hands-on AWS across compute, networking and IAM.
• IaC with Terraform/OpenTofu; modular design.
• CI/CD with GitHub Actions; containerization stack.
• Kubernetes, Docker, Helm; EKS desirable.
• GitOps with ArgoCD or Flux; secure pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain scalable infra with infrastructure as code.
• Own CI/CD pipelines for builds, tests, and deployments.
• Manage container workloads on Kubernetes and cloud compute.
• Implement safe rollout, rollback and recovery strategies.
• Operate cloud networking, gateways, DNS and TLS.
• Enforce identity, secrets management and least privilege.
• Run production DBs with HA, backups and recovery.
• Establish observability and operational metrics.
• Lead incident response and reliability improvements.
• Optimize cost and performance of high compute infra.
• Build reusable platform capabilities for engineering teams.

Skills

AWS

Terraform/OpenTofu

Ansible

GitHub Actions

Docker

Kubernetes

Helm

ArgoCD/Flux

APIs & Gateways

PostgreSQL/RDS/Aurora/Redis

Vault/Secrets Manager

Prometheus/Grafana/OpenTelemetry

Linux/Bash/Python

Security & Reliability

Job description

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

Experience with AWS, Terraform/OpenTofu, Ansible, GitHub Actions, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, ArgoCD/Flux and Vault is essential. Strong Linux, Bash and Python skills and a focus on reliability are required.