Job Summary

As a key technologist in the DevOps and Automation team, help drive DevOps and Automation practices at product and program level. Engineers enterprise level technology solutions for CI/CD and Cloud automation through infrastructure as code, containerisation and config management. Ensure robust Cloud engineering and DevOps practices for solution planning, technology development, deployment, release, hyper-care and operations of technology solution. Apply Site reliability principles to ensure availability, latency, performance, efficiency, change management, monitoring, emergency response, and capacity planning and act as a bridge between development and operations by applying a engineering mindset to system administration.
• Lead the discovery phase of Cloud adoption/ migration by partnering with the Architects and Security to strategize well defined DevOps and Cloud engineering architectures.
• Lead the automation of change management, building resiliency, monitoring, capacity planning and emergency response for set of products that you are responsible for.
• Act as a lead for service reliability, scalability and performance for a set of products as part of system enablement team for Agile release trains. Primary lead who identifies and improves the lifecycle of products/services by addressing flow of value through the continuous deployment pipelines.
• Review deployment and operational environments, i.e., execute initiatives to reduce failure, troubleshoot issues across the entire infrastructure stack, expand monitoring capabilities, and manage technical operations.
• Collaborate with Release Engineering, Product Development and Security teams to develop change management strategies – e.g. canary-style deployments, pushing out new releases without interrupting services, and rolling back features that demonstrate problems.
• Enable automation of everything possible and ensure continuous deployment pipeline is always in good health and is responsible for the technical design and high-quality coding for technology products with built in quality and production deployment ready.
• 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.
• Embrace DevSecOps principles to advise and architect security solutions with engineering and product teams, ensuring all technologies and projects are robust and adhere to security standards.
• Be an advisor to enable the teams to drive corrective, adaptive, preventative and perfective maintenance of solutions automating environment management, service management, infrastructure management and cyber security aspects of the systems.
• Apply Site reliability principles to ensure availability, latency, performance, efficiency, change management, monitoring, emergency response, and capacity planning and act as a bridge between development and operations by applying a engineering mind-set to system administration.

Qualifications & Experience

Qualifications

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

Experience
• 6+ Years of hands-on experience on DevOps implementation and/or Cloud Computing/Migration (AWS, Azure, VMware, GCP) and Systems Administration.
• At least 4+ years of experience in enterprise level IT projects Cloud based technologies (PaaS, IaaS, Cloud Infrastructure Services).
• Extensive Experience in architecture and support best practices in Hybrid cloud environment or Amazon AWS/Azure Cloud.
• Exceptional knowledge in systems monitoring, alerting and analytics (AppDynamics, Logstash, Splunk, etc.)
• Hands on knowledge of build automation and continuous integration/delivery ecosystem: Git, Groovy, Maven/Gradle, Docker, Nexus, Artifactory, Selenium, Jenkins, Docker, Openshift.
• Experience with infrastructure configuration and automations processes and tools: Terraform, Puppet, Ansible.
• Experience in deploying and trouble shooting highly available, secure and reliable services with automatic failover using containers and container-orchestration tools like Kubernetes/Openshift.
• Experience with issues facing large scale server environments.
• Experience with Linux management tools such as automated provisioning (ansible, puppet, razor), containers (docker), virtualization (VMware, KVM).
• Experience in Scripting (shell, python, Go)
• Skills for monitoring and automation.
• Experience working with automation and CI/CD implementation for microservices architecture.
• Hands-on experience on designing and building solutions that allow multi cloud environments.

Recommended Skills: (Will be valued, if available)
• Professional Certification on DevOps, DevOps related Tools, Systems Administration, Cloud, Networking, Agile, SAFe, etc.
• Published Blogs, Articles, contributions to OpenForums.
• Representation in Technical forums.

Knowledge/skills
• Must have broad understanding and exceptional expertise in one or more of these areas, based on business need.
• Technology Domain
• Key Technologies
• Clouds, Infrastructure Managers and Container Engines.
• Kubernetes, Docker, Openshift, AWS, VMWare, OpenStack, OpenShift, Helm, Azure, GCP.
• CI/CD
• Jenkins, GIT, Jmeter, Gatling, Docker, Openshift, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Jira-Agile, Confluence, VRA-CodeStream, Azure Devops, AWS Devops, maven, gradle.
• Scripting
• Go (Golang), Shell (Bash), Python, Ruby, JSON, YAML.
• Operating System
• Linux (RedHat, CentOS) and Windows.
• Monitoring and logging.
• Grafana, ELK, AppDynamics, Splunk, Zabbix, Prometheus, Fluentd.
• Provisioning/Config Management and Automation tools.
• Terraform, AWS Cloudformation, Azure ARM, Packer, Ansible, Puppet.

Salary & Benefits

Join us in Dubai and enjoy an attractive tax-free salary and travel benefits that are exclusive to our industry, including discounts on flights and hotels stays around the world., Edarabia, Emirates

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