Job Description
Location: SAUDI ARABIA / Riyadh
Must-have Skills: Resiliency, SRE
Good To Have Skills :
Job Description :
Role Overview: We are seeking a Technical Lead for Resilience Engineering to drive chaos engineering strategy, define best practices, and lead resilience initiatives across hybrid infrastructure environments.
Key Responsibilities
* Define and own chaos engineering strategy and roadmap
* Lead design of advanced chaos experiments (multi-layer: infra, network, application)
* Mentor engineers in resilience and chaos practices
* Standardize frameworks for automated chaos testing
* Drive adoption of resilience practices across engineering teams
* Collaborate with architecture teams to embed resilience into system design
* Define SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets aligned with reliability goals
* Lead game days/failure simulations
* Drive observability maturity across systems
Required Skills
* 7+ years in SRE/DevOps/Platform Engineering
* Strong expertise in Chaos Engineering (must-have)
* Proven experience in designing custom chaos platforms or frameworks
* Strong programming background (Python / Go preferred)
* Deep experience with: * On-prem systems (primary)
* Distributed systems architecture * Networking and failure injection
* Observability leadership experience: * Metrics, tracing, logging strategies * Experience with hybrid environments (on-prem + cloud integration)
-Leadership Expectations
* Ability to influence cross-functional teams
* Define engineering standards and best practices
* Drive cultural shift toward resilience-first engineering
Good to Have
* Experience with large-scale enterprise systems
* Exposure to compliance, DR, and BCP strategies
* Kubernetes chaos testing experience
Service Region: Middle East