DevOps Engineer

Bayut | dubizzle; Dubai; On-site; AED 293,000 - 441,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm in the UAE is seeking a DevOps Engineer to ensure the health and performance of the production environment. You will implement automation and maintainability solutions, troubleshoot issues, and collaborate with development teams. An ideal candidate has significant experience in DevOps tools, AWS, and Kubernetes. This position offers a competitive tax-free salary, health insurance, and opportunities for learning and development.

Benefits

Competitive Tax-free Salary

Comprehensive Health Insurance

Annual Air Ticket Allowance

Employee discounts at multiple vendors

Rewards & Recognitions

Learning & Development

Qualifications

• 4+ years experience in supporting hosted services in high-volume customer-facing environments.
• 3+ years experience running and managing infrastructure at scale with Kubernetes.
• Experience with DevOps tools and processes in mission-critical systems.

Responsibilities

• Ensure the overall health and performance of the production environment.
• Implement and design systems for automation and maintainability at scale.
• Troubleshoot issues across hardware, software, application, and network.

Skills

CI/CD processes

AWS

Kubernetes

Python

Bash

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent

AWS Solutions Architect certification

Tools

Jenkins

Github Actions

Istio

Job description

Bayut & dubizzle have the unique distinction of being iconic, homegrown brands with a strong presence across the seven emirates in the UAE. Connecting millions of users across the country, we are committed to delivering the best online search experience.

As part of Dubizzle Group, we are alongside some of the strongest classified brands in the market. With a collective strength of 5 brands, we have more than 123 million monthly users that trust in our dedication to providing them with the best platform for their needs.

At dubizzle you'd be part of high performing cross-functional "Squads" set with a mission to provide win-win exchanges for our beloved users.

DevOps Engineers at Dubizzle ensures that all our services are healthy, monitored, automated, and designed to scale. You’ll use your background as an operations generalist to work closely with our development teams from the early stages of design all the way through identifying and resolving production issues. You will support a wide range of products focusing on automation, availability and performance, and above all reliability.

In this role, you will:

• Serve as a primary point responsible for the overall health, performance, efficiency and capacity of our production environment
• Be part of the implementation and design of the systems used to operate Dubizzle, with a focus on automation and maintainability at large scale
• Experience in building large CI/CD processes (experience with Github actions is preferred)
• Collaboration with the development team on operations-related issues, providing support and acting as stakeholder
• Provide fast and reliable development experience for product teams by maintaining production-like environments used for development and testing
• Develop tools to effectively monitor custom applications in a large-scale environment
• Troubleshoot issues across the entire stack - hardware, software, application and network
• Migrate applications off of legacy environments with minimal downtime
• Take part in a shared 24x7 on‑call rotation
• Document system design and procedures.

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent field and significant experience in DevOps.
• AWS Solutions Architect certification
• 4+ years experience in supporting hosted services in a high-volume customer-facing environment
• Experience with DevOps tools, processes, culture, distributed systems, supporting mission-critical systems
• Experience working on Continuous Integration / Delivery pipelines using tools such as Jenkins and Github actions
• Demonstrated ability to write programs / utilities using a high-level programming language like: Go, Ruby, Python as well as Bash
• 3+ years proven experience in running and managing infrastructure at scale using container orchestration tool kubernetes
• Experience in performing migration from traditional technology stack(s) to AWS EKS or similar
• Experience in service mesh tools like Istio on kubernetes.

• A fast-paced, high-performing team.
• Multicultural environment with over 50 different nationalities
• Competitive Tax-free Salary
• Comprehensive Health Insurance
• Annual Air Ticket Allowance
• Employee discounts at multiple vendors across the Emirates
• Rewards & Recognitions
• Learning & Development

Bayut & dubizzle is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

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