DevOps Engineer

Bayut | dubizzle; United Arab Emirates; On-site; AED 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UAE-based tech company is seeking a DevOps Engineer to ensure the stability and efficiency of its production environment. This role involves automating systems, supporting high-volume services, and collaborating with development teams. Candidates should have a Bachelor's in Computer Science or Engineering, AWS certification, and over 4 years of experience in DevOps. Join a multicultural team and enjoy a competitive tax-free salary and comprehensive benefits.

Benefits

Competitive Tax-free Salary

Comprehensive Health Insurance

Annual Air Ticket Allowance

Employee discounts

Learning & Development

Qualifications

• 4+ years experience in supporting hosted services in a high-volume customer-facing environment.
• AWS Solutions Architect certification is required.
• 3+ years experience in managing infrastructure at scale using Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Ensure overall health and performance of the production environment.
• Implement and design scalable systems with a focus on automation.
• Collaborate with development teams on operations-related issues.

Skills

DevOps practices

CI/CD processes

Monitoring tools

Infrastructure management

High-level programming (Go, Ruby, Python)

Kubernetes

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

AWS

Github actions

Jenkins

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:

Responsibilities

• 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

Qualifications

• 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

Benefits

• 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.