Site Reliability Engineer (DevOps)

About the role

Goodman Masson is partnering with a new financial markets venture under formation in Oman, backed by prominent institutional investors. The business is building its operations from the ground up and is hiring during the build phase. The DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer reports to the Head of IT Infrastructure and drives CI/CD automation, infrastructure as code, containerisation, monitoring and production reliability, while providing technical leadership and day-to-day supervision to assigned team members.

Key responsibilities

• Design, implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate builds, testing and deployments.
• Develop and manage Infrastructure as Code with tools such as Terraform and Ansible.
• Manage containerised applications with Docker and Kubernetes across OCI, Azure, AWS and hybrid environments.
• Monitor and optimise reliability, scalability, performance and availability; set up monitoring, logging, alerting and observability with tools such as Prometheus, Grafana and ELK.
• Establish and monitor SLIs, SLOs and SLAs.
• Troubleshoot production incidents, carry out root cause analysis and implement recovery measures, automated rollbacks and preventive improvements.
• Support disaster recovery and integrate security controls, vulnerability scanning and compliance into DevOps workflows.
• Maintain technical documentation, runbooks and standard operating procedures.
• Supervise and coach DevOps / SRE team members, allocate tasks and monitor performance.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
• At least three years' experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, Cloud Engineering or Systems Administration.
• Experience supervising, mentoring or guiding technical team members.
• Proficiency in written and spoken English; proficiency in Arabic is desirable.

Required skills

• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code and automated deployment.
• Docker, Kubernetes and cloud or hybrid infrastructure; knowledge of OCI, Azure or AWS.
• Monitoring, logging and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana and ELK.
• Understanding of SLI, SLO, SLA, incident response, root cause analysis and disaster recovery.
• Knowledge of DevSecOps and scripting and automation languages are desirable.

What we offer

• Omani nationals: permanent employment.
• Expatriate hires: two-year fixed-term contract.
• The chance to help shape the technology and reliability foundations of a new financial markets venture.