DevOps Engineer

About the Role

Aroma City Group is seeking a DevOps Engineer to join our team in Riyadh. This is a full-time, remote position focused on building and managing infrastructure, deployment processes, and automation practices. The role requires 5-10 years of experience and offers an attractive compensation package.

Role Context

The DevOps Engineer will collaborate with the Technical Lead and development team to transition containerized workloads to production-ready Kubernetes. This role involves managing deployments across hybrid environments, including on-premise and cloud platforms, while ensuring reliable and secure releases for multiple customer engagements.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for products and concurrent customer projects.
• Lead the migration of containerized workloads to production-ready Kubernetes, including cluster design, deployment strategy, and rollout.
• Manage and automate deployments across mixed environments (customer on-premise data centers and cloud platforms) based on engagement requirements.
• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for provisioning, configuration, and environment management.
• Manage secrets and implement encryption-at-rest practices aligned with customer security requirements.
• Support customer security and architecture review meetings with infrastructure evidence, diagrams, and documentation.
• Set up and maintain monitoring, logging, and application performance monitoring (APM) across environments.
• Collaborate with the Technical Lead and development team to align infrastructure decisions with system architecture and integration requirements.
• Troubleshoot production issues across on-premise and cloud deployments and participate in incident response.
• Document deployment architecture, runbooks, and operational procedures.

Qualifications and Experience

• 5-10 years of experience in a DevOps role.
• Demonstrated experience with infrastructure, deployment, and automation practices.
• Proficiency in managing containerized workloads and Kubernetes orchestration.
• Experience with hybrid deployment environments (on-premise and cloud).
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles and tools.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with observability stacks such as Elastic APM/ELK or similar.
• Experience delivering to government or large enterprise customers, with awareness of security/compliance frameworks such as Saudi NCA-aligned controls.
• Cloud or Kubernetes certifications (*, CKA, GCP Cloud certification).

Work Environment

This is a full-time, remote position based in Riyadh, requiring close collaboration with the Technical Lead and development team.