Join the Pioneering Team at AZM Development in Pakistan!

We are thrilled to announce that AZM Development, a subsidiary of Saudi AZM, is expanding its operations in Pakistan and is on the lookout for talented individuals to join its growing team.

About AZM Development

AZM Development is a subsidiary of Saudi AZM, a publicly listed company with substantial revenue and a strategic partner for Saudi Vision 2030. With a global presence, AZM Development serves clients across Europe, Jordan, the Middle East, and other parts of the world.       

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Lead DevOps Engineer to drive the design, automation, and optimization of our multi-cloud infrastructure. This role is ideal for a hands-on technical leader who can architect scalable platforms, enhance deployment pipelines, improve observability, and enforce best practices across engineering teams. You will work across AWS, Azure, Alibaba Cloud, and Oracle Cloud (OCI), ensuring high availability, security, and operational excellence.  

Responsibilities 

Cloud & Infrastructure Architecture

• Design, operate, and optimize infrastructure across AWS, Azure, Alibaba Cloud, and OCI.
• Architect scalable, secure, multi-region environments using VPC/VNet, load balancers, routing, NAT, VPN, Transit Gateway/VCN Peering.
• Lead HA/DR architecture planning and implementation.

Containers & Kubernetes

• Manage production-grade Kubernetes clusters (self-hosted and managed: EKS, AKS, ACK, OKE).
• Implement and optimize Kubernetes components: ingress, service mesh, PV/PVC, storage classes, RBAC, Network Policies, autoscaling, Helm, kustomize, operators.
• Maintain Docker-based development and runtime environments, including secure image pipelines.

CI/CD, GitOps & Automation

• Build and manage CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps.
• Implement GitOps workflows with ArgoCD for automated deployments and environment synchronization.
• Integrate DevSecOps tools such as SonarQube and Trivy into delivery pipelines.

Infrastructure as Code & Configuration Management

• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code with Terraform (modules, state management, workspaces).
• Use Ansible for provisioning, configuration automation, and environment standardization.

Monitoring, Logging & Observability

• Build observability stacks using Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, ELK/OpenSearch, and Alertmanager.
• Utilize cloud-native monitoring tools (CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Alibaba/OCI monitoring).
• Develop SLO/SLI dashboards and lead production issue troubleshooting.

Scripting & Automation

• Automate infrastructure operations using Python and Bash.
• Develop scripts for deployments, health checks, cluster operations, and scaling.

Security, Compliance & Governance

• Manage IAM, RBAC, TLS/SSL, Vault, cloud secret managers, and certificate automation.
• Implement security scanning, code quality checks, and infrastructure hardening.
• Support compliance and DevSecOps integration across environments.

Databases & Storage

• Work with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and cloud-managed RDS services.
• Automate database backup/restore workflows and ensure HA operations.

Leadership

• Lead and mentor DevOps engineers, fostering a culture of automation, reliability, and ownership.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to define DevOps standards and best practices.
• Drive continuous improvement across infrastructure, pipelines, and security.

  Required Qualifications 

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 8+ years of DevOps/SRE or infrastructure experience, with at least 2-3 years in a senior or lead role.
• Hands-on experience with multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, Alibaba Cloud, OCI).
• Strong Kubernetes expertise at production scale.
• Deep experience with Terraform, Docker, CI/CD platforms, and observability tools.
• Strong understanding of security, identity management, and compliance best practices.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and leadership skills.

Required Certifications :

• The candidate should at least have two certifications on Kubernetes CKA + CKAD.
• Optionally and great if he/she also has other certifications on any of cloud providers (GCP, Alibaba, etc).

What working at AZM looks like

•  The opportunity to work with a group of energetic people who want to make a lasting ​impact in the rapidly evolving world of technology.

•  A culture that allows you to be empowered and take ownership of your work while ​focusing on your strengths and personal advancement.

• Health benefits, competitive compensation

• One-on-one guidance and mentorship to build your own trajectory

We are a company with a huge vision, a dynamic work environment, and a team of smart, ambitious and fun to work-with colleagues! We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status or other protected classes.