# Expert Platform Engineer — TAWANTECH

Canonical: https://jobxdubai.com/jobs/eb0a684b-expert-platform-engineer
Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Type: full_time · Level: senior
Monthly salary: AED 34,300 to 58,800 per month (estimated, not employer-stated) (UAE salaries are tax-free)
Posted: 2026-08-31
Apply: https://jobs.workable.com/view/v2o8XjxCJLmoa7ZCtwa3Rh/expert-platform-engineer-in-riyadh-at-tawantech

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## Description

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.

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