Summary
TAWANTECH is hiring an Expert Platform Engineer in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to design and evolve scalable, secure, and resilient technology platforms. The role includes developing infrastructure automation, CI/CD platforms, developer tools, and self-service capabilities, while guiding engineers and resolving complex platform issues. Applicants need a relevant bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of experience in platform engineering, DevOps, SRE, or cloud infrastructure, with production expertise in Kubernetes, AWS, and Terraform. Banking, FinTech, or payments experience and knowledge of PCI-DSS are preferred.
The posting
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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 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.