Associate Architect/Lead DevOps Engineer
Summary
Senior DevOps lead/architect, onsite in Saudi Arabia for at least a year, who designs and builds enterprise CI/CD automation and Terraform-based infrastructure on Google Cloud, runs multi-region GKE clusters, embeds DevSecOps into pipelines, and owns observability with Cloud Operations Suite, Prometheus, and Grafana.
Role
DevOps Engineer Senior GCP Specialist
Years of Experience
10 Years
Location
Saudi Arabia Onsite Minimum 1 Year
Requirements
- 7 years of dedicated continuous hands‑on experience strictly within DevOps, SRE, and Cloud Automation Mastery of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) native deployment ecosystem (Cloud Build, Cloud Deploy, Artifact Registry, Cloud Run)
- Expert-level Infrastructure as Code (IaC) experience using Terraform and Terragrunt for large-scale, multi-tenant enterprise environments
- Deep expertise in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), including enterprise cluster design, mesh architectures (Anthos/Istio), autoscaling, and security hardening
- Proven experience establishing end-to-end continuous integration / continuous delivery (CI/CD) automated pipelines, DevSecOps integration, and secret management
- Advanced proficiency with production monitoring, alerting, logging, and observability frameworks (GCP Cloud Operations Suite, Prometheus, Grafana)
- Strictly a dedicated DevOps/SRE career path (no generalist software engineering or fragmented histories)
Responsibilities
- Lead the architectural design and hands‑on implementation of enterprise CI CD automation and delivery pipelines on GCP
- Author maintain and review scalable Terraform modules enforcing strict security compliance and governance controls
- Manage scale and optimize multi-region Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) production environments
- Embed enterprise DevSecOps tools and practices directly into pipelines container scanning vulnerability management SAST DAST
- Establish proactive observability SLA SLO tracking incident root‑cause analysis and disaster recovery strategies
- Partner with application architects to optimize cloud infrastructure performance and eliminate deployment bottlenecks

