Head of Reliability

About Al Ali Data:

Our product started as a side project in 2001 and now has a few hundred paying customers, mostly in Dubai. On-call rotates weekly and pays a flat stipend whether or not the pager goes off.

What this job is:

We need another Head of Reliability to keep our production systems available, measurable and boring. Fully remote. You can work from anywhere in the UAE. Standard office hours, Monday to Friday, with flexibility around them. Please make sure you have a quiet place to work and a solid internet connection.

What you'll do:

• Write tooling in Go or Python to automate failover, scaling and routine operations.
• Build and tune alerting so pages are actionable and rare.
• Lead incident response as incident commander and run blameless postmortems.
• Maintain on-call schedules, runbooks and escalation policies in PagerDuty or Opsgenie.

What you bring:

• 12+ years in SRE, production engineering or infrastructure roles.
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform or similar.
• Understanding of distributed systems: consensus, replication, partitioning, backpressure.
• Experience participating in and leading on-call rotations.

Why work with us:

• Annual bonus.
• Annual flight ticket.
• Visa provided.

Start: Flexible.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Al Ali Data LLC.