Expert Platform Engineer
- Work arrangement
- On-site
- Occupation
- Software & IT
- Location
- Riyadh, Riyadh Province, SA
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Apply by
- April 14, 2027
About this role
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:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, Software Engineering, or related field.
- 8+ years of experiencein Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Infrastructure.
- Expert hands-on experience withKubernetes and AWS Cloudin production environments.
- Strong expertise inInfrastructure as Code (Terraform)andCI/CD automation.
- Strong knowledge ofLinux, networking, security, and cloud architecture.
- Proven experience designing and supportinghighly available, scalable, and resilient platforms.
- Strong experience withmonitoring, observability, incident management, and production troubleshooting.
- Experience inBanking, FinTech, or Payment environmentsis highly preferred.
- Good understanding ofPCI-DSS and security/compliance requirements.