Lead DevOps Engineer - L1

Job purpose:

Design and implement the company's production and development environments. Responsible for delivering a scalable; resilient; and cost-effective architecture and building a team of first-class professionals by guiding and leading; planning career paths and tuning the hiring.

Scope:

• Take over and manage all Azure infrastructure from Day 1, including AKS clusters, Application Gateway, VNets, NSGs, Key Vault, Container Registry, Blob Storage, and Azure AI Search.
• Manage and optimize CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Azure Container Registry) and Infrastructure-as-Code (Helm, Docker, Terraform or Bicep).
• Manage AKS cluster scaling, rolling updates, rollback, and health monitoring.
• Own identity, security, and authentication management via Microsoft Entra ID, including service principals, RBAC, managed identities, and certificate lifecycle.
• Run system monitoring, logging, alerting, cost optimization, backup, disaster recovery, and capacity planning.

Job

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cloud Computing, or related field.
• 5+ years of Azure cloud and DevOps experience, including at least 2 years managing AKS-based containerized workloads.
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator (AZ-104) is mandatory; AZ-305 (Solutions Architect) strongly preferred; AZ-500 (Security Engineer) and ITIL/DevOps certifications advantageous.
• Hands-on experience with Azure networking, Key Vault, monitoring tools (Azure Monitor, App Insights, Grafana), and IaC. Experience supporting AI or data-intensive platforms strongly preferred.
• Full-time on-site in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.