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About the Role

The Associate Director of Digital Infrastructure & DevOps Engineering is responsible for leading the execution, implementation, operational stability, resilience, automation, and cost optimization of Digital infrastructure and DevOps foundations across all Qiddiya Digital assets. This full-time role, based in Riyadh Province, Saudi Arabia, acts as the Digital execution owner for infrastructure services, cloud environments, DevOps enablement, automation, observability, reliability, operational readiness, and cost management.

Role Context and Alignment

This position ensures that Digital infrastructure and platform services are implemented, maintained, and operated in alignment with Qiddiya enterprise cloud guidelines, cybersecurity requirements, architecture standards, compliance policies, and governance frameworks. The role focuses on translating enterprise cloud and infrastructure guidelines into practical execution across Digital environments, vendors, services, tooling, deployment foundations, production readiness, and platform operations. It requires strong infrastructure depth, DevOps execution experience, vendor governance, and operational ownership to drive reliable, secure, scalable, automated, and cost-efficient Digital infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the implementation and operationalization of Digital infrastructure and platform services across all Digital assets and environments.
• Translate enterprise cloud guidelines, architecture principles, cybersecurity requirements, and governance expectations into executable Digital infrastructure plans.
• Ensure Digital workloads are implemented in line with approved QIC technology standards, security policies, compliance requirements, and operational controls.
• Drive consistency across Digital environments, including development, SIT, UAT, staging, pre-production, production, and hotfix environments.
• Ensure infrastructure foundations are production-ready, secure, resilient, scalable, observable, and aligned with Digital delivery needs.
• Work closely with the central Cloud team to ensure alignment with enterprise direction while owning Digital-level execution.
• Ensure infrastructure decisions are documented, reviewed, controlled, and implemented through appropriate governance channels.
• Lead the execution of DevOps engineering practices, driving automation of infrastructure provisioning, environment setup, configuration management, deployment support, and operational tasks.
• Support the adoption and governance of Infrastructure as Code, automated provisioning, controlled deployments, and auditable environment changes.
• Partner with DevSecOps teams to integrate infrastructure services into CI/CD pipelines, release governance, security gates, and deployment workflows.
• Identify and remove infrastructure, environment, and deployment bottlenecks impacting Digital delivery teams.
• Own the reliability, resilience, stability, and operational health of Digital infrastructure and platform services.
• Ensure high availability, disaster recovery, backup, failover, recovery, and capacity practices are implemented and tested across Digital assets.
• Reduce infrastructure-related incidents, environment instability, deployment blockers, and operational risks.
• Establish operational readiness criteria before go-live, including monitoring, alerting, escalation paths, runbooks, support models, backup readiness, and recovery procedures.
• Lead the operational management of Digital infrastructure services across all Digital products, environments, and vendors.
• Define and enforce operational practices for environment availability, infrastructure maintenance, incident support, release support, and service continuity.
• Drive proactive issue identification, root cause analysis, corrective actions, and continuous improvement for infrastructure and platform-related issues.
• Own Digital infrastructure cost visibility, optimization, and accountability.
• Establish and drive FinOps practices across Digital infrastructure services, environments, vendors, and products.
• Monitor infrastructure spend and ensure costs are aligned with business value, usage, capacity, and growth expectations.
• Drive cost optimization initiatives across compute, storage, networking, environments, observability tooling, DevOps tooling, and vendor-managed services.

Qualifications and Experience

Candidates for this role should possess the following qualifications:

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, or a related field.
• A minimum of 10 years of experience in cloud engineering, with a preference for Azure.
• A solid understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC), monitoring, and cloud security fundamentals.
• The ability to collaborate effectively with DevSecOps and cybersecurity stakeholders.

Work Location and Type

This is a full-time position located in Riyadh, within the Riyadh Province of Saudi Arabia.