Sr. Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Job description

About the employer: A B2B Fin‑Tech company transforming expense management for businesses in Saudi Arabia, licensed as an Electronic Money Institution by the Saudi Central Bank. Role: Manage reliability, performance, and scalability of production systems. Responsibilities include designing, automating, and operating mission‑critical environments such as Kubernetes clusters, database disaster recovery, workflow orchestration, and multi‑region networking. Maintain and evolve multi‑region cloud infrastructure using Terraform IaC, operate and optimize Kubernetes (OKE) clusters for microservices, data pipelines, and workflows, manage SQL Server backup/restore pipelines and conduct DR testing, ensure high availability for.NET and Python applications behind load balancers and WAF, design and maintain cross‑network connectivity (DRGs, LPGs, VCNs, subnets, NSGs), build a centralized orchestration platform integrated with alerting, develop self‑healing, monitoring, and auto‑remediation scripts using Python, Bash, and PowerShell, implement logging, metrics, and tracing pipelines, automate recurring operational tasks, manage GitHub Actions and Octopus Deploy pipelines for backend and data services, apply security principles (least privilege, network segmentation, secure credentials, encrypted communications), promote GitOps and Infrastructure‑as‑Code practices, collaborate with developers to embed reliability into releases, lead incident response and conduct blameless post‑mortems, partner with engineering teams to improve design and code‑level reliability, conduct capacity planning, cost optimization, and system tuning, and mentor engineers in automation, observability, and root‑cause analysis

Requirements

• Proficient in Terraform
• proficient in Kubernetes (OKE)
• proficient in SQL Server backup/restore and DR testing
• proficient in.NET and Python applications behind load balancers and WAF
• proficient in designing cross‑network connectivity (DRGs, LPGs, VCNs, subnets, NSGs)
• proficient in building a centralized orchestration platform with alerting
• proficient in developing self‑healing, monitoring, and auto‑remediation scripts using Python, Bash, PowerShell
• proficient in managing GitHub Actions and Octopus Deploy pipelines
• proficient in security principles (least privilege, network segmentation, secure credentials, encrypted communications)
• proficient in GitOps and Infrastructure‑as‑Code practices
• proficient in collaborating with developers to embed reliability
• proficient in leading incident response and conducting post‑mortems
• proficient in capacity planning and cost optimization
• proficient in mentoring engineers in automation, observability, and root‑cause analysis
• 5-10 years of experience.

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