DevOps

About the Role

Tamkeen Technologies is seeking a DevOps Manager to lead the DevOps function and establish scalable, reliable, secure, and automated software delivery practices. This full-time position is based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and requires 5-10 years of relevant experience. The role involves continuous improvement of CI/CD, GitOps, container platforms, and deployment automation, working closely with various engineering and security teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the DevOps engineering team, providing technical leadership.
• Own the organization’s CI/CD strategy, standards, tooling, and engineering practices.
• Design, operate, and continuously improve GitLab-based software delivery pipelines.
• Lead Kubernetes-based application deployment practices across development, testing, staging, and production environments.
• Establish and improve GitOps practices using technologies such as Argo CD.
• Standardize build, test, security scanning, release, deployment, and rollback processes.
• Drive Infrastructure as Code and automation to reduce manual operational activities.
• Build reusable CI/CD templates, deployment patterns, and engineering standards for development teams.
• Improve developer experience through self-service capabilities, automation, documentation, and standardized platform services.
• Work with Software Engineering and QA teams to integrate automated testing and quality gates into delivery pipelines.
• Collaborate with Cybersecurity to implement DevSecOps controls, including SAST, SCA, container scanning, secrets management, and security gates.
• Establish proper separation of duties and controlled production deployment processes.
• Improve application observability by integrating monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting into the software delivery lifecycle.
• Ensure high availability, scalability, resilience, and recoverability of DevOps platforms and services.
• Define and track engineering and delivery metrics, including DORA metrics, deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, and recovery time.
• Support incident management, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement of production delivery processes.
• Evaluate and introduce new DevOps and platform engineering technologies that provide measurable value.
• Manage DevOps platform capacity, licensing, vendors, upgrades, lifecycle, and technical roadmap.
• Maintain technical documentation, runbooks, standards, and operational procedures.
• Mentor engineers and foster a culture of automation, engineering excellence, ownership, and continuous improvement.

Required Experience

Candidates should possess 5-10 years of experience in a relevant field, demonstrating a strong background in DevOps practices and leadership.

Key Competencies

• Strong technical leadership
• Automation-first mindset
• Platform engineering expertise
• Problem solving and troubleshooting skills
• Reliability and operational excellence
• Proficiency in software delivery and release engineering
• Effective cross-functional collaboration
• Coaching and team development capabilities
• Commitment to continuous improvement

Work Environment

This is a full-time position located in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, within a dynamic technology environment focused on innovation and collaboration across various engineering disciplines.

Application Process

Interested candidates are encouraged to apply. Salary details will be discussed during the interview process.