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.