Application Engineer Senior Manager

About the Role

Elm Company is seeking a Senior Manager to lead the Platform Engineering function in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time role is responsible for the development, operation, modernization, and continuous improvement of enterprise platforms and engineering practices. The objective is to enable reliable, secure, scalable, and high-performing technology services, aligning with Elm’s strategic and operational objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and execute the Platform Engineering strategy, roadmap, priorities, and technical objectives in alignment with technology and business priorities.
• Oversee the design, development, operation, and continuous improvement of Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift platforms, ensuring reliability, availability, scalability, security, and performance.
• Lead the development and improvement of DevOps and DevSecOps practices, driving CI/CD, GitOps, Infrastructure as Code, and automation capabilities.
• Enhance the developer experience by providing reliable, standardized, and reusable platform capabilities, and developing self-service options.
• Lead Performance Engineering and Testing practices, covering load, stress, scalability, and endurance testing, and establish relevant standards and methodologies.
• Define and maintain engineering standards, technical practices, and platform operating principles, monitoring KPIs for platform availability, reliability, and performance.
• Collaborate with Development, Enterprise Architecture, Cybersecurity, Infrastructure, and Operations teams to ensure platform and application readiness and compliance.
• Comply with all relevant departmental policies, processes, standard operating procedures, and information security practices.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or a related discipline.
• 10–12 years of relevant experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, DevSecOps, Cloud Platforms, Application Engineering, Performance Engineering, or related technology domains.