Sr. Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Sifi; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 260,000 - 460,000; Full time

Job summary

Sifi is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to own reliability and scalability of production systems. You will design, automate, and operate mission-critical environments including Kubernetes clusters, databases, DR, and multi-region networking.

The role emphasizes infrastructure automation, diagnostics, and end-to-end reliability across cloud regions. Collaboration with development teams and strong security practices are required for resilient releases.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Site Reliability/DevOps or Infra Eng.
• Strong networking, load balancing, DNS knowledge.
• Automate resolution of incidents and events.
• Experience linking alerting with chat tools (Teams/Slack).
• OCI, Terraform, multi-region infra automation, Python & PowerShell.

Responsibilities

• Own reliability, availability and infra performance.
• Evolve multi-region cloud infra with IaC (Terraform).
• Operate and optimize Kubernetes (OKE) clusters and data pipelines.
• Manage SQL Server backup/restore, DR testing, performance tuning.
• Ensure HA for NET and Python apps behind load balancers/WAF.
• Design cross-network connectivity and security groups.

Skills

Kubernetes

Terraform

Python

PowerShell

CI/CD

Incident response

Observability

Education

Tools

OCI

Job description

Position Overview

We are looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer SRE who will take ownership of the reliability performance and scalability of our production systems You will design automate and operate mission-critical environments that include Kubernetes clusters database disaster recovery workflow orchestration and multi-region networking This role suits engineers who think deeply about systems combining infrastructure automation and diagnostic reasoning to drive operational excellence

Primary Responsibilities

• Reliability Availability amp Infrastructure
• Maintain and evolve multi-region cloud infrastructure using Terraform-based Infrastructure as Code IaC
• Operate and optimize Kubernetes OKE clusters running microservices data pipelines and workflow orchestration
• Manage SQL Server backup restore pipelines DR testing and performance optimization
• Ensure high availability for NET and Python applications hosted behind load balancers and WAF
• Design and maintain cross-network connectivity DRGs LPGs VCNs subnets and NSGs
• Observability amp Automation
• Build and maintain a centralized orchestration platform integrated with alerting and notification systems
• Develop self-healing monitoring and auto-remediation scripts for infrastructure and databases
• Implement logging metrics and tracing pipelines nbsp
• Automate recurring operational tasks using Python Bash and PowerShell to reduce manual effort and improve reliability nbsp
• DevOps CI CD amp Security
• Manage GitHub Actions and Octopus Deploy pipelines for backend and data services
• Apply strong security principles least privilege network segmentation secure credentials and encrypted communications
• Promote GitOps and Infrastructure-as-Code practices to ensure repeatable and traceable deployments
• Collaborate with developers to embed reliability and resilience into every release nbsp
• Collaboration amp Incident Management
• Lead incident response run blameless post-mortems and turn findings into lasting improvements
• Partner closely with engineering teams to drive design and code-level reliability improvements
• Conduct capacity planning cost optimization and system tuning for performance and scalability
• Mentor engineers in automation observability and root-cause analysis best practices
• Troubleshooting Mindset amp Diagnostic Thinking
• We value engineers who Approach issues systematically and validate assumptions with data Treat incidents as opportunities to improve design and automation Rely on metrics logs and tracing rather than guesswork Communicate findings clearly and document learnings for future reference Continuously refine how problems are detected escalated and resolved

Requirements

• 5years of experience in Site ReliabilityDevOpsor Infrastructure Engineering
• Deep experience with Solid understanding of networking load balancing and DNS
• Proven ability to analyze incidents and automate resolution
• Experience integrating alerting and monitoring systems with communication tools e gMicrosoft Teams or Slack
• OracleCloudInfrastructureOCI compute networking storage monitoring Kubernetes OKE deployments ingress controllers autoscalingMicrosoft SQL Server backup restore automation DR planning performance tuningTerraform multi-region and cross-tenant infrastructure automationPython ampPowerShell automation and system scripting