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The Associate Director, Infrastructure & DevOps Engineering is responsible for leading the execution, implementation, operational stability, resilience, automation, and cost optimization of Digital infrastructure and DevOps foundations across all Qiddiya Digital assets. This role acts as the Digital execution owner for infrastructure services, cloud environments, DevOps enablement, automation, observability foundations, infrastructure reliability, operational readiness, and infrastructure cost management. The role ensures that Digital infrastructure and platform services are implemented, maintained, and operated in alignment with Qiddiya enterprise cloud guidelines, cybersecurity requirements, architecture standards, compliance policies, and governance frameworks. This role does not own Qiddiya’s enterprise cloud strategy, enterprise cloud governance, company-wide cloud standards, application development, or application maintenance. These responsibilities remain with the relevant central Cloud, Enterprise Architecture, Cybersecurity, and application delivery teams. Instead, this role is accountable for translating enterprise cloud and infrastructure guidelines into practical execution across Digital environments, vendors, infrastructure services, DevOps tooling, deployment foundations, production readiness, and platform operations. This is a senior technical leadership role requiring strong infrastructure depth, DevOps execution experience, vendor governance, operational ownership, and the ability to drive Restricted This document has been classified as Restricted by Samy Baili reliable, secure, scalable, automated, and cost-efficient Digital infrastructure across multiple System Integrators and delivery teams. Key Responsibilities Infrastructure & Platform Execution • Lead the implementation and operationalization of Digital infrastructure and platform services across all Digital assets and environments. • Translate enterprise cloud guidelines, architecture principles, cybersecurity requirements, and governance expectations into executable Digital infrastructure plans. • Ensure Digital workloads are implemented in line with approved QIC technology standards, security policies, compliance requirements, and operational controls. • Drive consistency across Digital environments, including development, SIT, UAT, staging, pre-production, production, and hotfix environments. • Ensure infrastructure foundations are production-ready, secure, resilient, scalable, observable, and aligned with Digital delivery needs. • Work closely with the central Cloud team to ensure alignment with enterprise direction while owning Digital-level execution. • Ensure infrastructure decisions are documented, reviewed, controlled, and implemented through the appropriate governance channels. DevOps Engineering & Automation • Lead the execution of DevOps engineering practices across Digital infrastructure and platform services. • Drive automation of infrastructure provisioning, environment setup, configuration management, deployment support, and operational tasks. • Support the adoption and governance of Infrastructure as Code, automated provisioning, controlled deployments, and auditable environment changes. • Partner with DevSecOps teams to ensure infrastructure services are integrated into CI/CD pipelines, release governance, security gates, and deployment workflows. • Ensure Digital environments support faster, safer, and more predictable delivery without compromising compliance, security, or operational stability. Identify and remove infrastructure, environment, and deployment bottlenecks impacting Digital delivery teams. Drive standardization of DevOps practices across vendors, System Integrators, and Digital technology teams. Infrastructure Reliability & Resilience Own the reliability, resilience, stability, and operational health of Digital infrastructure and platform services. •