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About the Role
CoorB is seeking a DevOps & Release Management Engineer to act as gatekeeper of the production environment, architecting CI/CD strategy across a financial technology ecosystem.
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Responsibilities
- Own the Release Management lifecycle: schedule, coordinate, and manage releases across development, QA, UAT, and production environments
- Define and enforce strict release gates, change management controls, and rollback procedures to ensure system stability and compliance with SAMA regulatory requirements
- Maintain comprehensive audit trails of all deployments and infrastructure changes for compliance and security reviews
- Design, build, and maintain robust automated CI/CD pipelines for a diverse tech stack, accommodating monolithic packaged applications (ERPNext) and modern microservices
- Automate testing integration, code quality checks, and security scanning within the deployment pipelines for custom built middleware, mobile apps, and decision engines
- Manage environment consistency and configuration drift across all tiers
- Manage and scale the underlying GCP infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform)
- Administer and optimize Kubernetes (K8s) clusters for the deployment of proprietary microservices, ensuring efficient resource utilization, auto scaling, and high availability
- Manage service meshes, API gateways, and identity/access management configurations (e.g., Keycloak) critical to the middleware's security architecture
- Implement advanced telemetry, logging, and monitoring solutions across the GCP environment (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack) to proactively detect post release anomalies
- Collaborate closely with the ITSM Lead and L3 Engineering to troubleshoot deployment failures, database migration issues (e.g., PostgreSQL), and complex network routing problems
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, and Release Management, ideally within banking, fintech, or a highly regulated industry
- Deep hands on expertise with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and container orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes
- Proficiency with enterprise CI/CD tools (e.g., GitLab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD) and configuration management
- Experience deploying and managing Java (Spring Boot) and Python applications
- Strong understanding of relational databases, specifically PostgreSQL, and handling automated database migrations during releases
- Strong scripting skills (Bash, Python) for automating routine operational tasks
- Deep understanding of Agile methodologies, ITIL release management frameworks, and blue/green or canary deployment strategies
- Familiarity with the deployment architectures of Fineract and/or ERPNext (Frappe framework) is highly advantageous
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Role Overview
- The DevOps & Release Management Engineer is the gatekeeper of our production environment, responsible for architecting and executing the CI/CD strategy across our entire financial technology ecosystem.
- You will ensure seamless, zero downtime releases for our core platforms (Fineract and ERPNext) alongside our proprietary custom stack (mobile applications, Java/Spring Boot middleware, credit decision engine, and BPM workflows).
- Operating entirely within Google Cloud Platform (GCP KSA), you will champion infrastructure as code (IaC), container orchestration, and strict release governance to meet the high availability demands of the KSA financial sector.
Key Responsibilities
- Own the Release Management lifecycle: schedule, coordinate, and manage releases across development, QA, UAT, and production environments.
- Define and enforce strict release gates, change management controls, and rollback procedures to ensure system stability and compliance with SAMA regulatory requirements.
- Maintain comprehensive audit trails of all deployments and infrastructure changes for compliance and security reviews.
- Design, build, and maintain robust automated CI/CD pipelines for a diverse tech stack, accommodating monolithic packaged applications (ERPNext) and modern microservices.
- Automate testing integration, code quality checks, and security scanning within the deployment pipelines for custom built middleware, mobile apps, and decision engines.
- Manage environment consistency and configuration drift across all tiers.
- Manage and scale the underlying GCP infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform).
- Administer and optimize Kubernetes (K8s) clusters for the deployment of proprietary microservices, ensuring efficient resource utilization, auto scaling, and high availability.
- Manage service meshes, API gateways, and identity/access management configurations (e.g., Keycloak) critical to the middleware's security architecture.
- Implement advanced telemetry, logging, and monitoring solutions across the GCP environment (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack) to proactively detect post release anomalies.
- Collaborate closely with the ITSM Lead and L3 Engineering to troubleshoot deployment failures, database migration issues (e.g., PostgreSQL), and complex network routing problems.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, and Release Management, ideally within banking, fintech, or a highly regulated industry.
- Deep, hands on expertise with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and container orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes.
- Proficiency with enterprise CI/CD tools (e.g., GitLab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD) and configuration management.
- Experience deploying and managing Java (Spring Boot) and Python applications.
- Strong understanding of relational databases, specifically PostgreSQL, and handling automated database migrations during releases.
- Familiarity with the deployment architectures of Fineract and/or ERPNext (Frappe framework) is highly advantageous.
- Strong scripting skills (Bash, Python) for automating routine operational tasks.
- Deep understanding of Agile methodologies, ITIL release management frameworks, and blue/green or canary deployment strategies.
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