Site Reliability Engineer
Confidentiel
Role:About the opportunity
You'll join the technology organization of a well-established, fast-growing UAE-headquartered group whose digital products are used every day across the GCC and global markets. Due to the confidential nature of this search, the hiring company will be disclosed to shortlisted candidates at the first conversation.
You'll work as part of a DevOps and Infrastructure team building and running highly reliable, scalable production environments with real ownership over reliability, observability, and release engineering for products serving millions of users.
What you'll do
Gather and analyze metrics from operating systems and critical application services to enable rapid identification of issues and faults
Partner with development teams to improve service reliability and optimize release procedures
Maintain complete control and understanding of production environments to expedite issue identification and mitigation
Define and operate SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs aligned with organizational requirements; balance feature velocity with reliability
Administer Linux servers (Ubuntu, Amazon Linux) and web servers (Apache, Nginx, Tomcat, HAProxy)
Operate across AWS and Azure EC2, RDS, S3, ECS/EKS, Lambda, CloudWatch, CloudFront, Route53, VPC, API Gateway, IAM, ElastiCache, DynamoDB, CodeDeploy/CodeBuild, and serverless technologies
Implement and manage container orchestration: Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, OpenShift, or AWS EKS/ECS
Build with Infrastructure as Code Terraform, Pulumi, or CloudFormation across cloud and on-premises environments
Own Monitoring & Observability platforms: Elastic Stack, Grafana, Prometheus, Graphite, and APM tools (New Relic, AppDynamics, Dynatrace)
Reduce toil through automation using Terraform, Bash, and Python
Apply strong knowledge of microservices architecture and patterns; support RDBMS and NoSQL observability, high availability, and scalability
Lead incident management, on-call processes, and release/change management within an SDLC framework
Participate in system design consulting, platform management, and capacity analysis & planning
Maintain internal knowledge bases and document effectively (Jira, Confluence)
What you'll bring
Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related STEM field (mathematics majors preferred)
Minimum 4 years of hands-on Site Reliability Engineering experience, with strong proficiency across the technologies above
Deep incident-management and on-call experience in high-availability production environments
Excellent written and verbal communication; able to collaborate across multiple teams and stakeholders
Relevant certifications (AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform, observability platforms) are highly desirable
What's in it for you
A foundational role in a scaling technology group, with genuine ownership of production reliability
Tax-free compensation, comprehensive benefits, and a collaborative, growth-oriented engineering culture
Direct exposure to multi-product, multi-market infrastructure at scale
