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Expert Platform Engineer

TAWANTECH

On-site๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฆRiyadh, 01, Saudi ArabiaseniorPosted 4d ago

Visa & sponsorship

  • Employers in Saudi Arabia sponsor the residence visa by default, and nothing in the posting says otherwise.

Job description

Purpose:

To design and evolve scalable, secure, and resilient technology platforms that enable engineering teams to efficiently develop, deploy, operate, and monitor enterprise applications and digital services.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Design and implement scalable platform architecture and engineering solutions.

  • Define platform engineering standards, patterns, and technical practices.

  • Develop and enhance infrastructure automation and Infrastructure-as-Code capabilities.

  • Design and optimize CI/CD platforms, deployment pipelines, and developer tooling.

  • Drive containerization, orchestration, cloud, and platform automation practices.

  • Ensure platform security, resilience, availability, scalability, and performance.

  • Lead technical resolution of complex platform and infrastructure issues.

  • Develop self-service platform capabilities that improve developer productivity.

  • Evaluate platform technologies and recommend improvements and modernization opportunities.

  • Provide advanced technical guidance and mentorship to engineers.

  • Collaborate with architecture, cybersecurity, cloud, SRE, and application engineering teams.

Requirements

QUALIFICATIONS & REQUIREMENTS:

  • Bachelorโ€™s degree in Computer Science, IT, Software Engineering, or related field.

  • 8+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Infrastructure.

  • Expert hands-on experience with Kubernetes and AWS Cloud in production environments.

  • Strong expertise in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and CI/CD automation.

  • Strong knowledge of Linux, networking, security, and cloud architecture.

  • Proven experience designing and supporting highly available, scalable, and resilient platforms.

  • Strong experience with monitoring, observability, incident management, and production troubleshooting.

  • Experience in Banking, FinTech, or Payment environments is highly preferred.

  • Good understanding of PCI-DSS and security/compliance requirements.