DevOps Engineer

Job Summary

We're looking for a DevOps Engineer to join a cutting‑edge team that is working on some of the most exciting products being launched in the Middle East. This role offers a remote opportunity open for candidates worldwide. Webook.com is Saudi's #1 event ticketing and experience booking platform, leading in technology, features, agility, and revenue, with over 2 billion sales and serving the largest mega events in the Kingdom.

Key Responsibilities

• Focus on improving scalability, robustness, and automation of our tools and processes, as well as expanding capabilities to support new features
• A sense of ownership responsible for the deployment and optimization of our production systems
• Ensure our support tools work and enable continuous integration, testing, and production deployment
• Shape and implement strategic solutions to keep our systems on the bleeding edge of technology
• Contribute to the technology stack, covering web development, API development, database communication, performance, and security measures
• Ensure systems are operational, visible, and designed for auto-recovery in case of disaster
• Lead end‑to‑end development and production system operations including maintenance, monitoring, notification, automation, and backend operation
• Improve system performance and stability visibility
• Propose new technologies and tools to improve development, testing, and production operations
• Work closely with various teams across functions, including project, product, tech, and QA teams
• Continuously improve DevOps tools, processes, and procedures
• Build, maintain, and scale infrastructure for production, QA, and dev environments
• Develop and maintain continuous integration/continuous delivery systems
• Deploy automation solutions in a public cloud environment such as AWS
• Participate in ongoing design, implementation, and maintenance of systems and tools across our cloud stack
• Work closely with development and QA teams to ensure end‑to‑end quality
• Write and maintain infrastructure documentation
• Work with third‑party vendors to resolve infrastructure issues
• Maintain a track record of building and maintaining large‑scale software products
• Deliver high‑uptime software‑as‑a‑service applications
• Proactively manage tasks, projects, and issues
• Experience in handling high traffic production systems, troubleshooting, automation, and regular operation
• Familiarity with web development technology and exposure to their build/deployment
• Experience with continuous integration/deployment mechanism using Jenkins, Nexus, Docker Registry, GitLab, Ansible/Terraform
• Knowledge of SaaS, cloud infrastructure, and other enterprise‑related technologies (AWS)
• Experience with AWS and Google Cloud
• Experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes)
• Strong scripting skills (Shell scripting, Python, etc.)
• Strong knowledge of Unix‑based systems
• Experience with version control (Git)
• Deployment and configuration tools (Ansible, Chef, Puppet, etc.)
• Familiarity with micro‑service architecture and distributed systems concepts and principles

Key Qualifications

• Minimum of a bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
• Minimum of 3 to 5 years of experience as a Senior DevOps engineer
• Experience in GCP – preferred
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional – preferred
• Google Certified Professional Cloud Architect – preferred