Summary
webook.com is hiring a DevOps Engineer to build and operate infrastructure for its event ticketing and experience-booking platform. The role covers cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, deployment automation, monitoring, production reliability, and collaboration with development and QA teams. The posting lists Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and says candidates anywhere in the world may be considered for a remote opportunity. It asks for 3 to 5 years of experience as a Senior DevOps professional, a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, and experience with AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, and related tools.
The posting
As published on webook.com. Pulled from the employer's site and shown as they wrote it.
Do you want to love what you do at work? Do you want to make a difference, an impact, transform peoples lives? Do you want to work with a team that believes in disrupting the normal, boring, and average?
If yes, then this is the job you're looking for ,webook.com is Saudi's #1 event ticketing and experience booking platforms in terms of technology, features, agility, revenue serving some of the largest mega events in the Kingdom surpassing over 2 billion sales.
Job Summary:
We're looking for DevOps Engineer to join a cutting-edge team that is working on some of the most exciting products being launched in the Middle East. Apply today and if you fit what we're looking for we'll be in touch straight away. For this role, we're happy to consider candidates who are anywhere in the world and looking for a remote opportunity.
Key Responsibilities:
- Focus on improving scalability, robustness and automation of our tools and processes, as well as expanding capabilities to support new features
- A sense of ownership which will be responsible for the deployment and optimization of our production systems
- The ability to ensure our support tools work and enable continuous integration, testing and production deployment
- As an engineer, you will be shaping and implementing strategic solutions to ensure our systems stays on the bleeding edge of technology
- You will be contributing to the technology stack, covering web development, API development, DB communication/ handshake, performance, and security measures
- You will help to make sure systems are operational, visible, and designed for auto-recovery in case of disaster
- Responsible for the end to end development and production system operations including system maintenance, monitoring (application, system, log), notification, automation, and backend operation
- Visibility and Improvement in system performance and stability
- Propose new technologies and tools to improve development, testing, and production operations
- Work closely with various teams across functions including the project team, product team, tech team, and QA team
- Continually improve DevOps tools, processes, and procedures
- Build, maintain, and scale infrastructure for Production, QA, and Dev environments
- Develop and maintain Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery systems
- Deploy automation solutions in a public cloud environment such as AWS
- Participate in the ongoing design, implementation, and maintenance of systems and tools across our cloud stack
- Work closely with Development and QA teams to help ensure end-to-end quality
- Write and maintain infrastructure documentation
- Work with third-party vendors to resolve infrastructure issues
- A track record of building and maintaining large-scale software products
- Experience delivering high uptime Software-as-a-Service applications
- Demonstrated ability to proactively manage tasks, projects and issues
Requirements
- Experience in handling high traffic production system, troubleshooting, automation, and regular operation.
- Familiarity with web development technology and exposure to their build/ deployment.
- Experience with Continuous Integration/ Deployment mechanism using Jenkins, Nexus, Docker Registry, Gitlab, Ansible/Terraform.
- Good Knowledge of SaaS, Cloud Infrastructure and other enterprise-related technologies (AWS).
- Experience with AWS and Google Cloud.
- Experience with Container orchestration (Kubernetes).
- Strong scripting skills (Shell scripting, Python, etc.)
- Strong knowledge of Unix-based systems.
- Experience with version control (Git).
- Deployment and configuration tools (Ansible, Chef, Puppet, etc.)
- Familiarity with micro-service architecture (including the understanding of distributed systems concepts and principles).
Key Qualifications:
- Minimum of bachelors in Computer Science or related field
- Minimum of 3 to 5 years of experience as Senior DevOps
- Experience in GCP - preferred
- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional, preferred
- Google Certified Professional Cloud Architect, preferred