Senior Technical DevOps Engineer

at  The Emirates Group

Job Purpose: Join our dynamic DevOps and Automation team as a key technologist, driving DevOps and Automation practices at the product and program level.
As a Senior Technical DevOps Engineer- DevSecOps (UAE National) you will engineer enterprise-level solutions for CI/CD and Cloud automation, leveraging infrastructure as code, containerization, and configuration management. Your role is critical in ensuring robust Cloud engineering and DevOps practices throughout the entire technology solution lifecycle.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Degree or Honours (12+3 or equivalent) in a relevant field such as Computer Science, Computational Mathematics, Computer Engineering, or Software Engineering.

EXPERIENCE:

• 5+ years of total experience in DevOps/Platform Engineering.
• Experience working with automation and CI/CD implementation for microservices architecture using enterprise platforms (GitHub, GitLab, Jenkins).
• Experience in deploying and troubleshooting highly available, secure, and reliable services with automatic failover using containers and container-orchestration tools like Kubernetes/OpenShift/ECR/ACR/HELM/Kustomize
• Experience with Linux management tools such as automated provisioning (Ansible, Puppet, and Razor), containers (Docker), virtualization (VMware, KVM).
• Experience with infrastructure configuration and automation processes and tools: Terraform, Puppet, Ansible.
• Extensive experience in architecture and support best practices in a hybrid cloud environment or Amazon AWS/Azure Cloud.
• Exceptional knowledge in systems monitoring, alerting, and analytics (AppDynamics, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, Logstash, Datadog).

IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL:

• DevSecOps Practices: Embrace DevSecOps principles to advise and architect security solutions with engineering and product teams, ensuring robust adherence to security standards.
• Cloud Native Adoption: Collaborate with Architects and Security to strategize well-defined DevOps and Cloud engineering architectures, taking the lead in the discovery phase of Cloud adoption/migration.
• Automation and Resilience: Lead the automation of change management, building resiliency, monitoring, capacity planning, and emergency response for a set of products. Be the primary lead for service reliability, scalability, and performance as part of the system enablement team for Agile release trains.
• Collaboration and Change Management: Collaborate with Release Engineering, Product Development, and Security teams to develop change management strategies, enabling canary-style deployments and continuous delivery.
• Continuous Integration and Delivery: Ensure the CICD platform is always in good health, enable automation of everything possible, and take charge of the technical design and high-quality coding for technology products, emphasizing built-in quality and production deployment readiness.
• Environment Management: Build, maintain, and operate technical environments for software development, continuous integration, and continuous deployment based on cloud application design principles, such as 12-factor apps.
• Technical Advisory: Be an advisor, enabling teams to drive corrective, adaptive, preventative, and perfective maintenance of solutions, automating environment management, service management, infrastructure management, and cybersecurity aspects of the systems.
• Site Reliability: Apply site reliability principles, ensuring availability, latency, performance, efficiency, change management, monitoring, emergency response, and capacity planning, acting as a bridge between development and operations.