Senior DevOps Engineer (Riyadh, on-site)

What We Need

Oivan is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer with at least 8 years of experience in DevOps tools and technologies, including Linux and networking in the Middle East region. If you are interested in working in an international environment in a creative and awesome team, then Oivan is the right place for you!

Our goal is to have this person work in one of our key projects and provide their expertise in automation, pipelines, continuous integration and deployment.

Please note that the position is 100% on-site on our client's premises.

What You'll Do

We offer you the unique opportunity to work and improve your skills with a diverse and geographically distributed team of technology and business experts around the world. You will provide required DevOps expertise for a crucial client project. You will also be responsible for the following:

• Develop, implement and maintain digital solutions in our client’s platform.
• Be part of and contribute to a distributed cross-functional team to bridge the gap between Development and Operations
• Development of digital solutions in dialogue with our senior software engineers.
• Continuous improvements of systems using CI/CD pipeline and automating security testing on a large scale
• Proactively find and suggest technical solutions for improvements in project delivery and customer experience.
• Conduct expert training sessions and knowledge sharing to the customer and team members
• Co-create a runbook and playbook for product and project bases
  
  

What You Have

For this role, you are going to be working with our client within a cross-functional team. As a DevOps Engineer, we prefer that you have the following:

• Technical university education (at least relevant bachelor’s degree in computer science) with a few years of experience working in agile development and delivery projects. Relevant industry experience of work within IT and OT architecture is advantageous.
• Ability to work together with other people in your team.
• You are communicative with the ability to both see the big picture and understand details and also be able to describe your solutions in an easy-to-understand way, at a high level and at a detailed level.
• You have skills and experience in some of the following areas: Openstack, AWS, Google Cloud, Container Orchestration (managing Dockers / Kubernetes), SQL, noSQL databases Data visualization (Grafana, ELK, Prometheus), Code and Scripting skills in Gitlab / Bash / Ruby / Node.js
• Experience working in Gitlab pipelines – CI/CD flow, Helm chart, GitOps and system automation tools such as Ansible
• Relevant work experience in Linux system administration
• Excellent communication skills in English – Arabic is a great asset
  
  

For this role, we expect you to based in Riyadh.

What We Offer

• An international workforce to learn from and grow with - we have a diverse, multicultural workforce with Nordic values
• A fair compensation package and a considerable annual leave of 25 days per annum. We support our staff to be with family at the most important time. Partners with a newborn baby can have additional holidays.
• Opportunities for growth and enrichment through Grow with Oivan, our internal learning and development departments
• Line devices Mac or PC within a fixed company budget
• Team building activities, movie nights, events
  
  

Oivan as an Equal Opportunity Employer

At Oivan, we appreciate different lifestyles and cultural backgrounds. We welcome diversity as a strength. We consider all applications equally regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, national origin, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, orientation or gender identity. We strongly encourage individuals from groups traditionally underrepresented in tech to apply.

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Who We Are

At Oivan, we are a vibrant global community of dedicated professionals in IT, Business, Marketing, and Administration. Our presence spans worldwide, providing you with the opportunity to engage in a dynamic, multicultural work environment filled with diverse perspectives. We embrace our Nordic heritage, which enriches our international workplace culture. Guided by our core values of Reliability, Responsibility, and Fellowship, we are committed to excellence and making a meaningful impact. Join us in our mission to deliver outstanding quality and foster positive change!

Oivan’s official language is English and fluency is necessary for success on the job. For this role it would also be a requirement to speak Arabic. A strong dedication to excellent cross-cultural communication is a must.

Oivan company culture is reflective of our core values: Responsibility, Reliability, and Fellowship. The decisions we make today influence our tomorrow. We are sincere in our responsibility towards our employees, customers and the environment. Fellowship unites us as an international community of thinkers and doers. Throughout our hiring process, you’ll have access to a broad representation of the Oivan team in order to get to know us as we learn about you.

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