SRE / Cloud Engineer (High-Scale Platform)

**We’re hiring: SRE / Cloud Engineer** 📍 On\-site: G\-10 Markaz, Islamabad 🕒 Full\-time 💰 Market competitive salary 🌍 Working hours aligned with Gulf business hours Leading Folks is looking for an SRE / Cloud Engineer to help build, scale, and operate the infrastructure behind a high\-transaction, real\-time platform serving the GCC. This role is for engineers who stay calm when systems get loud. You’ll be deeply involved in shaping production reliability, automation, observability, and infrastructure scalability. If you think in terms of uptime, incident response, resilient architecture, and repeatable automation, you’ll fit right in. **We’d like to hear from you if you have** * 4\+ years in SRE, Cloud Engineering, or DevOps * Strong hands\-on experience with AWS, GCP, OCI, or Azure * Strong command of Docker \+ Kubernetes * Experience with Terraform * CI/CD and automation tooling experience * Background in observability tools like Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or similar * Solid Linux administration skills * Scripting ability in Python, Bash, or Go * Strong understanding of networking fundamentals, HA architecture, and disaster recovery * Experience running production systems at scale **What you’ll do** * Design and operate highly available cloud infrastructure * Improve production reliability, uptime, and operational efficiency * Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code, ideally with Terraform * Automate deployments and operational workflows * Strengthen monitoring, alerting, and observability practices * Optimize cloud costs without sacrificing performance * Improve infrastructure and application security * Lead incident response, RCA, and postmortems * Collaborate with engineering teams on scalability and production readiness * Drive SRE practices including SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets **Strong plus** * High\-transaction domain experience such as logistics, ecommerce, or fintech * Event\-driven systems like Kafka / RabbitMQ * Database reliability basics including replication, backups, and tuning * Zero\-downtime deployment patterns * Cloud security tooling * GitOps workflows * Familiarity with ISO 27001 / SOC 2 concepts **What you get** * Competitive salary * Real production ownership * The chance to work on meaningful scale and reliability challenges 📩 Apply now: Send your CV \+ LinkedIn/GitHub \+ a brief note on the production systems you’ve operated to info@leadingfolks.com Subject: SRE / Cloud Engineer – On\-site Islamabad 🔗 Apply online: leadingfolks.com/careersTips: Provide a summary of the role, what success in the position looks like, and how this role fits into the organization overall.