About the Role

Saudi Azm is seeking a DevOps Engineer to join their team in Riyadh, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time position requires 0-1 years of experience and focuses on designing, implementing, and managing robust infrastructure and deployment pipelines. The role involves enhancing system reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and manage CI/CD pipelines.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning using Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Deploy and maintain applications across cloud and on-premises environments.
• Manage containerized workloads using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Monitor system availability, performance, security, and capacity.
• Identify and resolve infrastructure, application, and deployment issues.
• Implement logging, alerting, backup, and disaster-recovery solutions.
• Apply security best practices throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Manage source-control strategies, release processes, and environment configurations.
• Improve platform reliability, scalability, and deployment frequency.
• Develop scripts and tools to reduce manual operational tasks.
• Maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and architecture diagrams.
• Participate in incident response, root-cause analysis, and on-call rotations.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to promote DevOps practices and continuous improvement.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• Proven experience in DevOps, cloud engineering, site reliability engineering, or systems administration.
• Experience with at least one major cloud platform: AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Strong knowledge of Linux administration and networking fundamentals.
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, or Azure DevOps.
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi.
• Experience with configuration-management tools such as Ansible, Puppet, or Chef.
• Hands-on knowledge of Docker and container-orchestration platforms.
• Scripting experience using Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk, or the ELK Stack.
• Understanding of secrets management, identity and access management, and cloud security principles.
• Strong troubleshooting, communication, and collaboration skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Relevant cloud or Kubernetes certifications.
• Experience managing production Kubernetes environments.
• Familiarity with GitOps tools such as Argo CD or Flux.
• Knowledge of service meshes, serverless platforms, and microservices architecture.
• Experience with database operations, performance tuning, and disaster recovery.
• Understanding of SRE concepts, including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and incident management.
• Experience supporting high-availability and large-scale distributed systems.

Performance Indicators

• Deployment frequency and lead time for changes.
• Application and infrastructure availability.
• Mean time to detect and recover from incidents.
• Change-failure rate.
• Percentage of infrastructure managed through automation.
• Security and compliance findings.
• Reduction in manual operational work.

Application Process

The salary for this position will be disclosed during the interview process. Qualified candidates are encouraged to apply.