Senior Cloud Platforms Engineer

About Mozn

Mozn is a rapidly growing and leading data science & product development firm based in Riyadh with a proven track record of excellence in supporting and growing the analytics ecosystem in Saudi Arabia. Mozn is a trusted analytics partner for the largest government organizations in Saudi Arabia, as well as many large corporations and startups. We are in a critical stage of scaling the company to build institutional analytics knowledge within Mozn and Saudi Arabia. It is an exciting time to work in Saudi Arabia; through Vision 2030, the rate of social and industrial change is staggering.

About The Role

We are seeking a Senior Cloud Platforms Engineer to join our Cloud Engineering team and lead the design, development, and operation of our internal platform services. You will play a pivotal role in shaping a highly reliable, scalable, and developer-friendly infrastructure to support our growing portfolio of microservices and cloud-native applications.

What You'll Do

Platform Engineering & Infrastructure

• Design, build, and maintain internal cloud platform capabilities on GCP and/or OCI, with Kubernetes (GKE/OKE) at its core.
• Operate scalable, resilient, and observable infrastructure systems including CI/CD pipelines and service mesh components.
• Build and maintain infrastructure as code (IaC) using Terraform, Helm, or similar tools.
  
  

• Manage Kubernetes cluster lifecycle: upgrades, patching, and tuning.
• Create reusable templates, GitOps workflows, and automation for microservice deployment.
• Implement observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki) to monitor system health.
  
  

• Develop self-service tools, APIs, and CLIs to streamline provisioning, secrets, and deployment workflows.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to reduce friction and improve deployment speed and quality.
• Promote platform adoption through documentation, training, and enablement.
  
  

• Ensure secure-by-default practices across the platform (network policies, IAM, pod security).
• Align infrastructure practices with internal and external compliance requirements.
  
  

• 5+ years of experience in cloud platform or infrastructure engineering.
• Expertise in Kubernetes and containerized microservices architecture.
• Proficient with Terraform, Helm, GitOps tools (ArgoCD, Flux).
• Strong understanding of cloud networking, Linux, and service discovery.
• Experience with observability tooling (Datadog, Prometheus, Fluent Bit).
• Scripting in Go, Python, or Bash.
• Background in developer platform enablement and internal tooling is a plus.
  
  

• Experience with multi-cloud environments (GCP, OCI, AWS).
• Knowledge of Kubernetes policy enforcement (OPA/Gatekeeper).
• Familiarity with cloud-native backing services like Postgres, MySQL, Redis.