Senior DevOps Engineer

About the role

We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to own the infrastructure and delivery systems behind Ghanem, a real‑estate investment platform in Saudi Arabia. The role is hands‑on, focusing on production reliability, developer productivity and secure, repeatable environments.

Key responsibilities

• Operate and improve GCP and GKE environments across production, staging, and internal services, including networking, ingress, TLS, workload configuration, and scaling.
• Maintain infrastructure as code with Terraform and GitOps using Argo CD, Helm, and Kustomize, ensuring changes are reproducible and recoverable.
• Improve GitHub Actions pipelines for backend services, web applications, and mobile releases, covering build runners, artifact management, quality gates, and deployment automation.
• Design safe release and rollback procedures, coordinating application changes, database migrations, configuration, and post‑deployment validation.
• Build actionable monitoring and alerting for availability, latency, errors, and capacity, and investigate incidents using Google Cloud tools and Kubernetes diagnostics.
• Strengthen IAM, Workload Identity, secret management, access controls, and environment isolation, supporting security reviews and evidence collection.
• Own backup and recovery procedures with service owners, validate restores, and maintain incident and disaster‑recovery runbooks.
• Improve cost efficiency and capacity planning, remove manual operational work, and help engineers diagnose platform problems.

Required profile

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, platform engineering, or site reliability engineering with hands‑on responsibility for production systems.
• Strong experience with Google Cloud Platform and Kubernetes (GKE), including IAM, networking, Workload Identity, storage, and service exposure.
• Practical Terraform experience, including modular configuration, state management, drift investigation, and controlled changes.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines and operating GitOps delivery with tools such as GitHub Actions and Argo CD.
• Strong Linux, container, and network troubleshooting skills with scripting ability in Bash or Python.
• Experience with cloud observability, incident response, backups, recovery testing, and operating database‑dependent applications.

Required skills

• Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
• Terraform
• Docker
• GitHub Actions
• Argo CD
• Helm
• Kustomize
• Linux
• Kubernetes
• Bash scripting
• Python scripting
• PostgreSQL
• Redis