Overview

Role: Architect – DevSecOps

Responsibilities

• We are looking for a senior, hands-on Architect – DevSecOps to lead the design and evolution
• of the platform that powers Styli's commerce business on GCP. This role is the technical anchor
• across three deeply connected disciplines — reliability engineering, platform/DevOps, and
• application security — and is responsible for setting the architectural direction while staying
• close to the code, infrastructure, and incidents.
• You will own a large-scale, multi-region GCP architecture, define SLOs and reliability practices, embed security into every stage of the SDLC, and partner with product engineering leaders to ensure Styli scales reliably and securely through flash sales, regional expansion, and traffic peaks of 10x–20x baseline.
• This is explicitly a hands-on architect role — you will write Terraform, debug production
• incidents, review pull requests, integrate security gates into services/pipelines, tune GKE
• clusters, and pair with engineers on hard problems. We expect senior judgment and influence,
• not slide decks.
• Own the end-to-end architecture for Styli's platform on GCP — compute, networking,
• Define and evolve the platform engineering, SRE, and DevSecOps roadmaps in
• Set technical standards, golden paths, and reference architectures that product
• Lead architecture reviews for new services, third-party integrations, and major platform
• Mentor senior engineers across SRE, DevOps, and AppSec; provide technical guidance
• Design and operate multi-region, multi-project GCP landing zones using Shared
• Architect for high-traffic e-commerce — design stateless services, sharded data tiers,
• Own GCP-native services at scale: GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, AlloyDB, Cloud
• Drive multi-region resilience — active-active and active-passive patterns, regional
• Lead FinOps for the platform — design cost-aware architectures, committed use and
• Govern IAM, organisation policies, and resource hierarchy to enforce least privilege and
• Define and operationalise SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets for all customer-facing and
• Lead capacity planning and load testing for sale events and seasonal peaks — model
• Design and operate observability across logs, metrics, traces, and events — typically
• Drive systemic reliability improvements: chaos engineering, dependency hardening,
• Continuously reduce operational toil through automation, self-healing systems, and
• Own the application security and DevSecOps strategy — shift-left security across
• Design and operate the security toolchain: SAST, DAST, SCA, IaC scanning,
• Lead Kubernetes and cloud security hardening
• Manage secrets and identity at scale using Secret Manager solutions

Qualifications

• About Styli Marketplace
• Launched in 2019 by Landmark Group, Styli Marketplace is the first e-commerce venture of the
• group, quickly becoming a leading online destination for fashion and lifestyle across the GCC,
• including Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain, and beyond. Styli connects global sellers and
• creators with millions of fashion-forward customers, offering the latest trends, exceptional value,
• and convenient services like same-day to 48-hour delivery and flexible payment options. Our
• mission is to make style accessible, aspirational, and exciting for all, backed by a passionate
• team fostering a culture of creativity and innovation. At Styli, we aim to revolutionize fashion
• retail and bring unique experiences to our customers.
• 8–12 years of hands-on experience across DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, and
• Deep, hands-on expertise on GCP
• Proven experience in architecting and running e-commerce or high-traffic
• Strong SRE foundations — SLOs, error budgets, capacity planning, incident
• Strong application security and DevSecOps background
• Expert Kubernetes operations — multi-cluster GKE, RBAC, network policies,
• Expert with Terraform for multi-cloud / multi-account IaC.
• Strong scripting/automation skills in Python and/or Go; comfortable reading and
• Excellent communication and influence skills — able to drive alignment across
• FinOps leadership experience — managing multi-million-dollar cloud spend with
• Data platform familiarity — Kafka, Spark, Airflow, dbt, or BigQuery at production scale.
• Relevant certifications: Google Professional Cloud Architect, Professional Cloud
• Contributions to open-source projects in the CNCF / security ecosystem.
• Millions of active users across multiple countries in the Middle East — Saudi Arabia,
• High-concurrency commerce events — flash sales and campaign launches driving
• Microservices are deployed across multi-region GKE clusters with strong tenancy and
• Cloud architecture hosted on GCP (primary), with a focus on regional proximity to end
• A security and reliability bar that protects customer trust, payment flows, and brand