DevOps Intern

On-site

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Internship

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Tabby is hiring a DevOps Intern — a internship, based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia role. Apply directly on Tabby's careers page below.

DevOps Intern

Department: Infrastructure

Employment Type: Internship

Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, KSA

About the company

Tabby builds financial products used by millions of users across the GCC. Our services run on large-scale cloud infrastructure and must meet strict requirements for reliability, security, and regulatory compliance.

This internship is not educational by default. It is an engineering role with real responsibility.

Key Responsibilities

Context

DevOps engineers at Tabby work on the runtime and development platforms that power all product teams. This includes cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and security foundations.

The internship is designed for strong early-career engineers who want to grow as infrastructure and platform engineers. Interns are embedded into real DevOps teams, work with production systems, and are expected to meet engineering standards from day one.

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

What you will do

This is not a helper role. Interns work on real production tasks under senior review.

Work with cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes-based platforms
Help automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration
Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows
Assist in improving observability, monitoring, and alerting
Participate in incident analysis and postmortems
Work with infrastructure-as-code and configuration management
Help improve reliability, scalability, and security of systems
Read and understand existing platform architecture and tooling

Required

Strong fundamentals in Linux and operating systems
Understanding of basic networking concepts (TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS)
Basic understanding of cloud platforms and distributed systems
Familiarity with containers and Kubernetes concepts
Ability to read and understand infrastructure and service configurations
Basic scripting or programming skills
Experience with Git and standard development workflows
Structured thinking and attention to reliability
Open to constructive feedback
English sufficient for documentation and team communication

Strong plus

Hands-on experience with Kubernetes
Experience with any public cloud (GCP, AWS, or Azure)
Familiarity with CI/CD systems
Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools
Basic understanding of observability and monitoring
Interest in security, reliability, and platform engineering

What we do not expect

Expert-level knowledge of Linux, Kubernetes, or any specific cloud platform
Prior professional DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering experience
Mastery of all listed tools, IaC frameworks, or CI/CD systems
Deep knowledge of distributed systems, networking internals, or production reliability practices

Eligibility

Saudi nationals only
Self-funded internship by Tabby
We welcome both current students and fresh grads
We expect a full-time level of engagement throughout the internship. The program is not part-time: interns should be ready to contribute at a full working-day pace. We understand that students may occasionally need flexibility for classes or exams, which can be aligned with the mentor in advance, but overall performance, ownership, and context involvement are expected at a full-time level.

Format

Paid internship
Full integration into an engineering team
Distributed engineering team across multiple countries
Open to Saudi nationals (Saudi passport required); location flexible — candidates may be based outside KSA
Office-first in Riyadh where possible
Clear path to a junior DevOps or platform engineer role based on performance

This internship is intentionally demanding and designed for candidates aiming for fast professional growth in DevOps and platform engineering.