DevOps Engineer
What We Need
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:
- Azure Cloud Infrastructure & DevOps
- Architect scalable, secure Azure solutions
- Manage Azure VMs, AKS, VNets, Load Balancers, Application Gateways
- Use OpenTofu (Terraform fork) for IaC
- Build CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI
- Manage containerized workloads with Docker and AKS
- Configure monitoring (Azure Monitor, Prometheus, Grafana)
- Implement logging and alerting with Log Analytics
- Manage Azure networking, firewall, and VPN
- Automation & Scripting
- Develop automation using Python, Bash, PowerShell
- Build and maintain OpenTofu modules
- Automate DB maintenance routines
- Build self-service tools for developers
- Implement GitOps workflows
- Application Stack Collaboration
- Work closely with Golang backend teams
- Support frontend deployment (React/Vue/Angular)
- Optimize database interactions
- Troubleshoot across frontend, backend, and DB layers
- Support microservices architectures in Go
- Collaboration & Support
- Provide L2/L3 support
- Support teams with DB design and optimization
- Conduct RCA investigations
- Participate in on-call rotation
- Document runbooks and architectural decisions
- Mentor junior team members
- Security & Compliance
- Implement DB security best practices
- Use Azure Key Vault for secret management
- Configure AAD and RBAC
- Conduct security audits
- Ensure compliance (GDPR, etc.)
- Implement Azure Security Center recommendations
- Database Management & Reliability
- Design, implement, and maintain highly available PostgreSQL and MongoDB clusters on Azure
- Utilize Azure Database for PostgreSQL and Azure Cosmos DB
- Perform performance tuning, optimization, and capacity planning
- Implement backup, recovery, and DR strategies using Azure Backup and geo-replication
- Monitor database health and performance using Azure Monitor
- Manage database security, access, and compliance
- Conduct upgrades, patching, and migrations
What You Have
For this role, you are going to be working with our client within a cross-functional team as DevOps Engineer, we prefer that you have the following:
- The role requires working hours aligned with Saudi Arabia time zone - 13:00 to 21:00, Sunday to Thursday.
- Excellent communication skills in English.
- Education & Experience
- Bachelor's in CS, IT, or similar
- Minimum 5 years DevOps/DBA/SRE experience
- Experience managing production DB systems at scale
- Technical Skills (Required)
Azure & Infrastructure:
- Expert Azure skills (VMs, AKS, VNets, LB, Storage)
- OpenTofu/Terraform IaC experience
- Azure DevOps, ARM templates, Azure CLI
- Monitoring with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics
Development & Scripting:
- Familiarity with Golang
- Familiarity with frontend build processes
- Strong scripting (Python, Bash, PowerShell)
- Git workflow experience
System Administration:
- Strong Linux admin skills
- Networking, DNS, load balancing, CDN knowledge
- Technical Skills (Preferred)
- Azure certifications
- Redis, Elasticsearch
- GitOps (ArgoCD/Flux)
- Azure Site Recovery
- Helm charts
- Service mesh knowledge
Databases:
- Expert PostgreSQL (HA, replication, tuning)
- Strong MongoDB (replica sets, sharding)
- Experience with Azure PostgreSQL & Cosmos DB
- DB migration experience
- Soft Skills
- Excellent analytical and communication skills
- Self-driven, collaborative, detail-oriented
What We Offer
- Hybrid work
- MacBook Pro, screen protector, mouse, and headphones
- Premium insuranceandFullinsurancesalary
- Company paid team lunch weekly
- Travel opportunity to Oivan international locations and client sites
- International team and work opportunities overseas.
- Unlimited premium snacks/healthy food, coffee, and drinks at the office
- Self-study time and company-sponsored opportunities for development (+2 hours per week)
- 15 days annual leave
- 10 days of paid paternity leave when having a baby.
- 15 sick leaves
- Annual health checkup
- 13th Month Salary.
Who We Are
Oivan creates and operates human-centric digital services for our clients worldwide. With offices in Finland, UAE, Thailand, Vietnam and Saudi Arabia, our international team executes a diverse array of projects.
Our international team of digitalization experts manages digital services’ full lifecycle, from design and development to operations and analytics. We are building a fast-growing, transparent, fairness in our teams along with our core values: Responsibility, Fellowship and Reliability. Our commitment to our core Nordic values is reflected in the benefits we offer our workforce.
If you want to work in a cool environment offering flexibility and attractive benefits, being in the same team with driven and talented geeks, then Oivan is your place!
