Lead DevOps Engineer📣 إعلان

About the Opportunity

Jobgether is seeking a Lead DevOps Engineer to join its team in Saudi Arabia. This full-time role offers a high-impact opportunity for an experienced infrastructure leader to take ownership of a large-scale, high-traffic scraping platform operating at a massive global scale.

Role Context and Platform Evolution

The successful candidate will shape and drive the evolution of cloud infrastructure that processes billions of requests. This involves ensuring reliability, security, and performance under extreme load, while also defining the platform roadmap and optimizing complex distributed systems. The role focuses on strategic leadership in infrastructure consolidation and operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and drive the end-to-end platform roadmap, identifying critical improvements, infrastructure gaps, and long-term architectural priorities.
• Lead the consolidation of multiple infrastructure stacks into a unified, scalable, and reliable platform with minimal operational disruption.
• Design and optimize cloud infrastructure for performance, scalability, security, and cost efficiency across large-scale distributed systems.
• Implement robust monitoring, alerting, logging, and disaster recovery strategies to ensure system reliability and resilience.
• Take ownership of infrastructure cost optimization, including high-impact areas such as proxy and compute expenses, while maintaining performance and security.
• Strengthen platform security posture by proactively addressing vulnerabilities and defending against evolving threats and attack vectors.
• Collaborate closely with engineering teams, contributing to system design decisions and supporting development workflows, including AI-related initiatives.
• Mentor engineers and help elevate overall platform engineering maturity, including tooling, processes, and best practices.

Technical Leadership and Expertise

This position combines hands-on technical depth with strategic leadership, particularly in areas such as Kubernetes, observability, and infrastructure automation. The role requires influencing architecture, cost efficiency, and operational excellence within a fast-moving engineering environment.

Candidate Profile and Experience

Candidates should possess 5-10 years of relevant experience and thrive in ownership-driven environments. The ideal engineer enjoys solving complex scalability and cost challenges within distributed systems.

Work Environment

This role operates within a remote-first engineering environment, fostering close collaboration with development teams. The focus is on continuous improvement and maintaining a robust, secure, and efficient infrastructure.