DevOps Engineer II

About Us

Tamara is the leading fintech platform in Saudi Arabia and the wider GCC region with a mission to help people make their dreams come true by building the most customer-centric financial super-app on earth. The company serves millions of users in the region and partners with leading global and regional brands such as SHEIN, Jarir, noon, IKEA and Amazon, as well as small and medium businesses.

Tamara is Saudi Arabia’s first fintech unicorn and is backed by Sanabil Investments, a wholly owned company by the Public Investment Fund (PIF), SNB Capital, Checkout.com, amongst others. The company operates from its headquarters in Riyadh, with additional regional and global support offices.

Your Role

We're seeking a DevOps Engineer II for our Platform Engineering team. As a Platform Engineer, you will be crucial in building reliable, secure, and scalable infrastructure that empowers Tamara’s developers to ship with confidence and speed.

Drawing on your proficiency in infrastructure, developer platforms, and cloud-native technologies, you will be responsible for implementing and optimizing core platform capabilities, from Kubernetes clusters and CI/CD pipelines to monitoring and deployment tooling, ensuring strong foundations that scale with our growth.

With experience in supporting internal developer platforms and managing cloud-native systems, you will collaborate with a diverse ecosystem of talented engineers, product managers, and infrastructure experts to improve reliability, reduce operational burden, and enable engineering autonomy across the company, ultimately helping revolutionize the way millions of users shop, pay, and bank.

You are a driven, determined, curious team player, knowing that collective strength means we all win. With a positive outlook, you are solution-oriented–persevering regardless of circumstances, always finding a way through, no matter the challenges.

You will effectively find a way to work with everyone through empathy and respect. You will be driven and comfortable with responding quickly with urgency, with the ability to change course without losing momentum and energy, resulting in great success

Your Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and improve core infrastructure components including Kubernetes, CI/CD systems, observability stacks, and service networking.
• Collaborate with internal teams to identify platform friction points and design automation to reduce manual effort and improve engineering productivity.
• Participate in on-call rotations, respond to incidents, and drive post-incident reviews that lead to long-term stability improvements.
• Contribute to infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, Helm, and GitLab CI/CD pipelines.
• Help define and enforce platform standards across environments, including tagging, access policies, and cost optimization.
• Support the rollout of new tools, frameworks, or platform features by collaborating closely with developers and product teams.
• Document platform systems, usage guides, and troubleshooting steps to foster internal adoption and reduce knowledge silos.
  
  

Your Expertise

• 3+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, or SRE roles.
• Proficiency with Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud platforms like GCP, OCI, or AWS.
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g. Terraform, Ansible).
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools and workflows (e.g. GitLab CI, ArgoCD, Jenkins).
• Solid understanding of Linux systems, networking, and system debugging.
• Experience with observability and monitoring tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic, ELK).
• Programming or scripting knowledge in at least one language (e.g., Python, Bash, Go).
• Team player with excellent collaboration and communication skills.
• Creative mindset with a passion for exploring and implementing new technologies and solutions to enhance system reliability.