Senior DevOps Engineer

Job Title: Senior DevOps Engineer / DevOps Specialist (AWS, Microservices, SaaS)

Location: Remote / Hybrid / On-site

Time zone alignment: Dubai (UAE)

Experience Required: 6+ years

About the Company

We are a fast-growing digital solutions company transforming the hospitality industry through innovative Digital eMenu products. Our platform offers multiple products designed to enhance guest experience, streamline restaurant operations, and drive revenue for hospitality brands.

Role Overview

We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer who will own the DevOps function end-to-end for a customer-facing, multi-tenant SaaS platform operating at scale.

This is a hands-on role for someone who has built, deployed, secured, and operated large-scale microservices systems on AWS, not just maintained them. You will be responsible for the full lifecycle — from infrastructure design and CI/CD to security, observability, reliability, and compliance readiness.

You will work closely with backend engineers and product teams while owning all infrastructure, deployment, and platform reliability concerns.

Key Responsibilities

Infrastructure & Cloud Architecture

• Design, build, and operate highly available, secure, and scalable AWS infrastructure
• Own and manage:

- EC2, ECS (EC2 & Fargate), EKS

- VPC, ALB/NLB, Route53, PrivateLink

• Design systems for multi-tenant SaaS with strict availability and SLA requirements
• Implement infrastructure as code using:

-CloudFormation / CDK (required)

-Terraform (good to have)

CI/CD & Deployment

• Own and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions
• Build application and infrastructure pipelines
• Implement and operate: Blue-green deployments, and Canary deployments
• Ensure safe, automated, repeatable deployments across environments

Observability & Reliability

• Design and operate a full observability stack using: CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana
• Define and track SLIs/SLOs
• Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and reliability improvements

Databases & Data Services (Production Experience Required)

• Architect, deploy, and operate AWS database services in production: RDS (PostgreSQL, MySQL), Aurora, DynamoDB, ElastiCache (Redis), OpenSearch
• Handle: Multi-AZ setups, Read replicas, Backup & restore strategies, Disaster recovery planning

Security & Compliance

• Own cloud security posture end-to-end: IAM (least-privilege access), KMS, Secrets Manager, and AWS WAF
• Implement secure secret handling and key management
• Support and prepare systems for: SOC 2, ISO, HIPAA, and PCI
• Work with audit, compliance, and penetration-testing processes

Automation & Tooling

• Write Python scripts for: DevOps automation, Tooling, and Operational workflows
• Improve developer experience through automation and platform tooling

Ownership & Leadership

• Own the DevOps roadmap and technical direction
• Define best practices for: Infrastructure, Deployments, Security, and Reliability
• Act as the go-to person for cloud and platform decisions

Required Experience & Skills

• Senior-level (6+ years) DevOps experience owning production systems end-to-end
• Deep hands-on AWS experience across: Compute, networking, security, observability, and databases
• Strong experience with Docker and containerized microservices
• Strong experience with GitHub and GitHub Actions
• Proven experience running customer-facing SaaS systems at scale
• Strong understanding of security best practices and compliance readiness
• Production experience with all listed AWS database services
• AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, or similar)
• Terraform experience
• Experience operating systems under strict SLA and regulatory requirements

What We’re Looking For

• Someone who owns problems, not just tickets
• Strong architectural thinking with hands-on execution
• Comfortable in startup and scale-up environments
• Security-first and reliability-driven mindset
• Clear communicator who can work across engineering teams

Job Type: Full-time

Application Question(s):

• What is your current monthly salary (AED)?
• What is your expected monthly salary (AED)?
• Are you available to join immediately? (If not, mention notice period)

Experience:

• DevOps : 6 years (Required)