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Expert Platform Engineer

TAWANTECH

Riyadh, Riyadh Province, Saudi Arabia

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About the role

Purpose:

To design and evolve scalable, secure, and resilient technology platforms that enable engineering teams to efficiently develop, deploy, operate, and monitor enterprise applications and digital services. 

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Design and implement scalable platform architecture and engineering solutions. 
  • Define platform engineering standards, patterns, and technical practices. 
  • Develop and enhance infrastructure automation and Infrastructure-as-Code capabilities. 
  • Design and optimize CI/CD platforms, deployment pipelines, and developer tooling. 
  • Drive containerization, orchestration, cloud, and platform automation practices. 
  • Ensure platform security, resilience, availability, scalability, and performance. 
  • Lead technical resolution of complex platform and infrastructure issues. 
  • Develop self-service platform capabilities that improve developer productivity. 
  • Evaluate platform technologies and recommend improvements and modernization opportunities. 
  • Provide advanced technical guidance and mentorship to engineers. 
  • Collaborate with architecture, cybersecurity, cloud, SRE, and application engineering teams. 

Requirements

QUALIFICATIONS & REQUIREMENTS:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, Software Engineering, or related field.
  • 8+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Infrastructure.
  • Expert hands-on experience with Kubernetes and AWS Cloud in production environments.
  • Strong expertise in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and CI/CD automation.
  • Strong knowledge of Linux, networking, security, and cloud architecture.
  • Proven experience designing and supporting highly available, scalable, and resilient platforms.
  • Strong experience with monitoring, observability, incident management, and production troubleshooting.
  • Experience in Banking, FinTech, or Payment environments is highly preferred.
  • Good understanding of PCI-DSS and security/compliance requirements.