On-Site Kubernetes Engineer — Rancher/RKE2 in Dubai

Oivan Group Oy; Dubai; On-site; AED 180,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

Oivan Group Oy in Dubai seeks an Intermediate Kubernetes Engineer to provide on-site operational support for enterprise Kubernetes platforms built on Rancher and RKE2. You will maintain day-to-day operations and help customer teams gain confidence in Rancher usage.

This hands-on, customer-facing role requires real experience operating Rancher and RKE2 clusters, strong Kubernetes troubleshooting, and the ability to transfer knowledge through practical guidance.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of hands-on IT experience, with 2+ years operating Kubernetes in production.

Responsibilities

• Provide on-site operational support for Rancher-managed RKE2 clusters at the customer site.
• Carry out day-to-day operations: cluster health checks, node/workload management, namespace and project administration, and user access via Rancher RBAC.
• Troubleshoot and resolve platform issues (nodes, pods, networking, DNS, ingress, storage) and escalate with findings when needed.
• Operate Rancher Manager: managing downstream clusters, projects, users and roles, app catalog and Helm-based deployments.
• Support RKE2 cluster installation, configuration, scaling and maintenance, including on-premise and air-gapped environments.
• Assist with planned Kubernetes, RKE2 and Rancher upgrades, and with etcd snapshots and Rancher backup/restore.
• Monitor platforms using Rancher Monitoring (Prometheus and Grafana) and logging, and respond to alerts and incidents.
• Apply security baselines such as RKE2 CIS profile, Pod Security Admission and network policies.
• Deliver knowledge transfer and hands-on walkthroughs to customers and internal teams on Rancher usage and operations.
• Create and maintain runbooks, procedures and platform documentation.
• Collaborate with customer stakeholders and the wider Oivan and SUSE teams.

Skills

Rancher

RKE2

Kubernetes

Linux admin

Networking basics

Prometheus Grafana

Bash scripting

GitOps exposure

Helm

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering or Computer Science

Tools

Rancher

RKE2

Helm

Terraform

Ansible

GitOps tools

Job description

Oivan Group Oy in Dubai seeks an Intermediate Kubernetes Engineer to provide on-site operational support for enterprise Kubernetes platforms built on Rancher and RKE2. You will maintain day-to-day operations and help customer teams gain confidence in Rancher usage.

This hands-on, customer-facing role requires real experience operating Rancher and RKE2 clusters, strong Kubernetes troubleshooting, and the ability to transfer knowledge through practical guidance.