DevOps Engineer

Role Overview

Help building, operating, and continuously improving the platforms and infrastructure that support our customers and consulting engagements on AWS.

You will work closely with engineering teams to improve software delivery, infrastructure reliability, security, observability, scalability, and developer experience.

The role combines AWS cloud infrastructure, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, container orchestration, automation, monitoring, and operational excellence.

We are looking for someone who is comfortable taking ownership, solving problems

systematically, automating repetitive work, and collaborating across engineering teams.

Tasks & Responsibilities

Design, build, operate, and continuously improve infrastructure and platform services on AWS.

Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code to ensure consistent, repeatable, and auditable infrastructure provisioning.

Build and improve CI/CD pipelines to enable reliable, secure, and efficient software delivery.

Deploy and operate containerized applications using container orchestration platforms, primarily Amazon ECS.

Build and maintain container-based deployment workflows using technologies such as Docker and Amazon ECR.

Automate infrastructure provisioning, application deployments, configuration, and operational processes.

Implement and maintain monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability solutions.

Improve platform reliability, availability, scalability, performance, and resilience.

Support engineering teams in deploying, operating, and troubleshooting applications running on AWS.

Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement activities.

Identify operational risks, bottlenecks, and repetitive manual processes and propose improvements.

Apply security best practices across AWS infrastructure, containerized workloads, CI/CD pipelines, secrets, access control, networking, and platform services.

Contribute to AWS cost visibility, resource optimization, and cloud efficiency.

Maintain clear technical documentation, operational procedures, runbooks, and architecture documentation.

Collaborate with software engineers, architects, security teams, and other stakeholders to improve engineering standards and practices.

Evaluate tools and technologies based on reliability, maintainability, security, scalability, operational complexity, and business value.

Competencies

Strong understanding of AWS cloud infrastructure and modern infrastructure engineering practices.

Hands-on experience designing, deploying, or operating workloads on AWS.

Experience with container technologies and container orchestration platforms, particularly Amazon ECS.

Experience with Docker and containerized application delivery.

Understanding of core AWS services and concepts including compute, networking, storage, identity and access management, security, monitoring, and highly available architectures.

Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, AWS

CloudFormation, AWS CDK, or similar approaches.

Understanding of CI/CD concepts and experience building or maintaining automated software delivery pipelines.

• Experience with scripting or programming for automation using languages such as Python, Bash, Go, or similar.

Strong understanding of Linux systems, networking, DNS, load balancing, TLS, and common infrastructure concepts.

Experience with monitoring, logging, metrics, alerting, and observability practices.

Understanding of security principles including AWS IAM, secrets management, access control, vulnerability management, and secure infrastructure configuration.

Ability to troubleshoot technical and operational problems across applications, infrastructure, networking, containers, and AWS services.

Strong ownership mindset and ability to work collaboratively with engineering teams.

Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly and document systems and processes effectively.

Education, Experience & Language

Previous experience in a similar role

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Fluent in speaking & writing, Arabic & English

Tools & Certifications

Experience with Amazon ECS and AWS-native container platforms.

Familiarity with Kubernetes or Amazon EKS.

Experience with GitOps practices and modern deployment automation.

Experience with reliability engineering, SRE practices, SLIs, SLOs, and incident management.

Experience with AWS cost management, optimization, and FinOps practices.

Familiarity with AWS security services, governance controls, and security best practices.

Experience building internal developer platforms or improving developer experience.

Familiarity with databases, messaging platforms, caching systems, and distributed-system components.

Knowledge of AWS Well-Architected principles and cloud architecture best practices.