Senior DevOps Engineer

About Ghanem

Ghanem is a technology company focused on real estate investment in Saudi Arabia. The company's platform integrates investor onboarding, identity verification, investment opportunities, wallets, payments, and portfolio management. Ghanem develops customer experiences across mobile and web, alongside the operational tools and integrations that support the investment lifecycle.

The Role of Senior DevOps Engineer

Ghanem is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to manage the infrastructure and delivery systems. This full-time role involves ensuring safe engineering shipments, maintaining the reliability of customer and financial services, and securing environments to be repeatable and straightforward to operate. The position holds direct responsibility for production reliability and developer productivity.

Key Responsibilities

• Operate and enhance GCP and GKE environments for production, staging, and internal services, including networking, ingress, TLS, workload configuration, and scaling.
• Maintain infrastructure as code with Terraform and GitOps using Argo CD, Helm, and Kustomize, ensuring changes are reproducible, reviewable, and recoverable.
• Improve GitHub Actions pipelines for backend services, web applications, and mobile releases, covering build runners, artifact management, quality gates, and deployment automation.
• Design safe release and rollback procedures, and coordinate application changes, database migrations, configuration, and post-deployment validation.
• Build actionable monitoring and alerting for availability, latency, errors, and capacity, and investigate incidents using Google Cloud tools, structured logs, and Kubernetes diagnostics.
• Strengthen IAM, Workload Identity, secret management, access controls, and environment isolation, while supporting security reviews and evidence collection.
• Manage backup and recovery procedures with service owners, validate restores, and maintain practical incident and disaster recovery runbooks.
• Improve cost efficiency and capacity planning without compromising reliability, automate manual operational tasks, and assist engineers in diagnosing platform problems.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• 5-10 years of experience in DevOps, platform engineering, or site reliability engineering, with direct responsibility for production systems.
• Strong experience with GCP and Kubernetes, including GKE, IAM, networking, Workload Identity, storage, and service exposure.
• Practical Terraform experience, including modular configuration, state management, drift investigation, and controlled changes.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines and operating GitOps delivery with tools such as GitHub Actions and Argo CD.
• Strong Linux, container, and network troubleshooting skills, along with scripting ability in Bash, Python, or an equivalent language.
• Experience with cloud observability, incident response, backups, recovery testing, and operating database-dependent applications.
• Ability to explain operational risk, document procedures, and collaborate with engineers to resolve failures across service boundaries.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Experience supporting fintech or other environments with sensitive data and strict reliability and audit requirements.
• Experience with Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL, Redis, Google Secret Manager, External Secrets, and Workload Identity Federation.
• Experience with self-hosted GitHub Actions runners, Flutter build and release pipelines, mobile signing, or OpenTelemetry.

Engineering Environment

The engineering environment at Ghanem utilizes Google Cloud Platform, GKE, Terraform, Docker, GitHub Actions, Argo CD, Helm, and Kustomize. Services are built using Java and Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, and Redis. Operational investigations are conducted using Google Cloud logging and monitoring, gcloud, and kubectl, complemented by application telemetry.