Platform Engineer — OpenShift, Cloud & DevSecOps (Remote)

LSD Open; Dubai; On-site; AED 320,000 - 520,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

WFH flexibility

RH certifications included

Home office budget

Therapy & coaching services

15 days PTO

Job summary

LSD Open in the United Arab Emirates is seeking an experienced Platform Engineer to design, build, and optimise enterprise platforms across cloud, on-premise and hybrid environments. This high-impact individual contributor role combines deep technical expertise with customer ownership and commercial awareness.

You will operate autonomously, act as a trusted technical advisor to customers, support complex engagements and help raise the capability of the wider Platform Engineering team.

Qualifications

• 6+ years' hands-on Red Hat OpenShift experience.
• Experience with multiple Red Hat technologies.
• Strong CI/CD and GitOps tooling experience (ArgoCD, Flux, GitLab, GitHub Actions or Jenkins).
• Proven experience with Prometheus/Grafana and/or Elastic; RHEL administration.
• Experience mentoring and supporting other engineers; able to work independently on multiple engagements.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy and optimise platforms across the full technology stack.
• Own platform life cycle including availability, scalability, security and performance.
• Engineer enterprise Red Hat OpenShift / Kubernetes environments.
• Automate delivery and operations using mature DevSecOps, CI/CD and GitOps practices.
• Act as the primary technical relationship owner for customer engagements.
• Resolve complex platform and MKS issues and lead critical incident resolution.
• Identify continuous improvement, automation and standardisation opportunities.
• Mentor Platform Engineers and Junior Platform Engineers; review delivery quality.
• Support sales, solution design, proposals and pricing; identify up-sell opportunities.
• Manage delivery scope, utilisation and margin to protect commercial outcomes.
• Travel across the Middle East, Africa and internationally as required.

Skills

OpenShift

CI/CD

GitOps

ArgoCD

Flux

GitLab

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Prometheus

Grafana

Elastic

RHEL administration

Mentoring

Cloud/AWS

Ansible

Observability

OpenShift Platform Plus

Customer engagements

Education

RHCA

3 Red Hat certifications

CKA

CKAD/CKS

AWS certifications

Tools

Not specified

Job description

LSD Open in the United Arab Emirates is seeking an experienced Platform Engineer to design, build, and optimise enterprise platforms across cloud, on-premise and hybrid environments. This high-impact individual contributor role combines deep technical expertise with customer ownership and commercial awareness.

You will operate autonomously, act as a trusted technical advisor to customers, support complex engagements and help raise the capability of the wider Platform Engineering team.