DevOps Release Management Engineer

About the role

The DevOps & Release Management Engineer is the gatekeeper of the production environment, architecting and running the CI/CD strategy across a financial technology ecosystem. The role ensures zero-downtime releases for core platforms (Fineract and ERPNext) and a custom stack (mobile apps, Java/Spring Boot middleware, credit decision engine and BPM workflows), operating entirely on Google Cloud Platform in KSA.

Key responsibilities

• Own the release lifecycle: schedule, coordinate and manage releases across development, QA, UAT and production, with strict release gates, change controls and rollback procedures aligned with SAMA requirements.
• Maintain audit trails of all deployments and infrastructure changes.
• Design and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines for monolithic and microservices applications, including testing, code quality and security scans.
• Manage environment consistency and configuration drift across all tiers.
• Manage GCP infrastructure with Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g. Terraform) and administer Kubernetes clusters, auto-scaling and high availability.
• Manage service meshes, API gateways and identity/access settings such as Keycloak.
• Implement telemetry, logging and monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK) and work with ITSM and L3 engineering on deployment failures, database migrations and network issues.

Required profile

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, cloud engineering and release management, preferably in banking, fintech or a highly regulated industry.
• Deep hands-on knowledge of GCP, Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with Java (Spring Boot) and Python applications, and PostgreSQL with automated migrations.
• Familiarity with Fineract and/or ERPNext is highly advantageous.
• Strong scripting (Bash, Python) and deep knowledge of Agile, ITIL release management and blue/green or canary deployments.