Position: Technical Lead with DevOps exp. (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)
Company: Picstar
Category: DevOps
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

As the company is expanding into multiple regions, and wider customer verticals focus, the company is looking to hire a Senior technical manager who will lead the technical delivery team, including support and managed services teams. 

**If you have strong experience in cloud migration projects, database, support, and managed services projects with Cyber Security, we're glad to meet you.**

Currently, the team is around 16 employees, however within 2020, we are expanding to different locations, the Bahrain office will start in May 2020 with 6 employees. Egypt office will start in Aug 2020 with 5 employees, and we have a plan to start the competency center in Poland with 4 employees ( expected by the end of 2020).

**The candidate responsibility will include the following:**
- Understand the company portfolio, vision, and growth plan, and make sure to build the internal competencies to deliver this.
- Hire, onboard, train, and develop new Solutions Architects and support engineers for all locations, (Bahrain, Saudi, and Egypt).
- Drive and make sure the technical team competencies meet and exceed the required skills to deliver the company solutions and to maintain the highest level of partnership level with all partners through acquiring new certifications and updating the old ones.
- Deliver technical solutions that solve for new levels of complexity, scale and performance, and in turn, enabling breakthrough innovations.

**Required Qualifications**
- 10 years of IT experience in IT solutions delivery and Internet-related technologies; 
- Direct industry experience in infrastructure and software technologies;
- Hands-on experience with MS & AWS Cloud platforms, products, and services;
- Strong written communication and verbal skills in English;
- Certified professional level in MS and AWS certifications;
- Experience developing enterprise solution architectures to meet business requirements in complex environments;
- Large-scale systems integration involving on-premises technology and public cloud platforms Sizing and scoping of core application platforms;
- Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort with audiences of all sizes;
- The successful candidate must have a proven track record of successful leadership of senior technical professionals;
- The ideal candidate will have demonstrated the ability to work with senior and executive level management, and the ability to map a customer’s business needs to technology solutions.

**(Nice-to-have)**
- Background on all MS programming languages i.e. (.NET).

**Benefits:**
- Competitive salary;
- 15 paid sick days and 22 vacation days;
- Full medical insurance for employees and his/her family (in Saudi) will be provided;
- Support with relocation (Full payment for flights and assistance with finding an apartment);
- Approachable management;
- Flexible work hours;
- Career growth.