Senior SRE Specialist: Observability & Incident Response

Takamol Holding; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 150,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

Takamol Holding is seeking an IT Operations/SRE professional to support incidents across digital platforms and to monitor the Elastic Observability stack. You will collaborate with Platform Engineering and development teams to resolve issues within SLAs and contribute to automation initiatives.

Ideal candidates bring 1–3 years in IT ops or SRE, strong scripting skills, and a good grasp of monitoring concepts, ITIL practices, and modern cloud-native environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 1–3 years of experience in IT operations, system administration, application support, DevOps, or SRE.
• Familiarity with Observability tools such as Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, etc.), including basic querying and dashboard usage.
• Knowledge of Linux systems and scripting (Bash, Python, or Go).
• Understanding of monitoring, logging, and alerting concepts.
• Experience with ITSM tools (ServiceNow, Jira, Zendesk) and ITIL practices.
• Strong grasp of incident, problem, and change management.
• Basic experience with cloud native environments and containers such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Strong critical thinking, troubleshooting, and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide support for application incidents across digital platforms, working with Platform Engineering, App Development, and customer support to resolve per SLAs and escalation procedures.
• Operate and monitor the Elastic Observability stack — Elasticsearch, Kibana, Fleet Server, APM Server, Elastic Agent via ECK on OKE.
• Assist with day-to-day Elasticsearch operations like ILM, SLM, data tier housekeeping, and capacity monitoring.
• Troubleshoot telemetry ingestion issues across logs, metrics, traces, and synthetic monitors.
• Maintain and update Kibana dashboards, alerting rules, and saved objects under SRE guidance.
• Perform root cause analysis and participate in blameless post-incident reviews to improve reliability.
• Collaborate with Platform Engineering to automate tasks, improve pipelines, and enhance observability using Terraform, Helm charts, and scripting.
• Develop and maintain support documentation, runbooks, and knowledge base articles aligned to incident response procedures.
• Manage incidents and requests via Jira/ServiceNow, ensuring documentation in the service management system.
• Participate in on-call rotation and reduce operational toil through automation and tooling.
• Monitor KPIs like MTTD and MTTR and report on incident metrics.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and vendors to improve reliability and security posture.

Skills

Observability tools

Linux scripting

Monitoring & alerting

ITSM familiarity

Docker & Kubernetes

Incident management

Communication skills

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/IT/Engineering

Tools

Elastic Stack

Jira

ServiceNow

Zendesk

Terraform

Helm

Bash

Python

Go

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Takamol Holding is seeking an IT Operations/SRE professional to support incidents across digital platforms and to monitor the Elastic Observability stack. You will collaborate with Platform Engineering and development teams to resolve issues within SLAs and contribute to automation initiatives.

Ideal candidates bring 1–3 years in IT ops or SRE, strong scripting skills, and a good grasp of monitoring concepts, ITIL practices, and modern cloud-native environments.