Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer (OpenShift | Kafka | ArgoCD)

GSSTech Group; Dubai; On-site; AED 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology solutions provider based in Dubai is seeking an experienced DevOps / Platform Engineer to join their team. The ideal candidate will possess strong expertise in OpenShift, Kafka, and cloud-native architecture. Responsibilities include building secure, scalable platforms and ensuring the quality of application architecture. A minimum of 5 years of relevant experience is required.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5+ years of development and design experience in OpenShift/Jenkins, ArgoCD and Kafka.
• Experience in Agile methodology.
• Strong experience with CI/CD principles.

Responsibilities

• Build scalable, secure, and cloud-native platforms in high-throughput environments.
• Ensure quality of technical and application architecture across the organization.
• Actively troubleshoot issues in distributed services ecosystem.

Skills

OpenShift

Kafka

CI/CD

Cloud

Distributed systems

Docker

Jenkins

ArgoCD

Linux OS

GitOps

Agile methodology

Event-driven architecture

Apache Spark

Education

Degree, Postgraduate in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

OpenShift/Kubernetes

Public Cloud (Azure, OCI)

Git (Source Control)

Job description

We are looking for an experienced DevOps / Platform Engineer with strong expertise in OpenShift, Kafka, CI/CD, Cloud, and distributed systems to join our technology team. The ideal candidate will have hands‑on experience building scalable, secure, and cloud‑native platforms in high‑throughput environments.

Education

Degree, Postgraduate in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent industry experience)

Experience

Minimum 5+ years of development and design experience in OpenShift/Jenkins, ArgoCD and Kafka.

Technical Skills

• Containerization and orchestration (Docker and OpenShift/Kubernetes)
• Enterprise and Open Source Redis setup, configuration and support.
• Kafka setup and configuration experience with high throughput environment.
• Source control (GIT), automated build/deployment pipelines (Jenkins, ArgoCD, Kaniko, Shipwright etc.)
• Public Cloud preferably Azure and OCI
• Linux OS configuration and using shell scripting
• Working with streaming data sets at scale
• Public Cloud automation toolset
• Cloud Native applications
• Understanding of GitOps
• Extensive coding experience and knowledge in event driven and streaming architecture
• Good hands‑on experience with design patterns and their implementation
• Experience doing automated unit and integration testing
• Well versed with CI/CD principles (GitHub, Jenkins etc.), and actively involved in solving, troubleshooting issues in distributed services ecosystem
• Familiar with Distributed services resiliency and monitoring in a production environment.
• Responsible for adhering to established policies, following best practices, developing, and possessing an in-depth understanding of exploits and vulnerabilities, resolving issues by taking the appropriate corrective action.
• High level knowledge of compliance and regulatory requirements of data including but not limited to encryption, anonymization, data integrity, policy control features in large scale infrastructures
• Understand data sensitivity in terms of logging, events and in memory data storage– such as no card numbers or personally identifiable data in logs.
• Distributed systems
• Network fundamentals and host-level routing
• Tuning distributed systems
• Automated testing, Security engineering practices and tools.
• Event driven architecture
• Good to have Flink, Beam / Kafka streams, Apache Spark or similar streaming technologies

Functional Skills

• Experience in Agile methodology.
• Ensure quality of technical and application architecture and design of systems across the organization.
• Analytical thinking
• Effectively research and benchmark technology against other best in class technologies.
• Able to influence multiple teams on technical considerations, increasing their productivity and effectiveness, by sharing deep knowledge and experience.
• Self‑motivator and self‑starter, ability to own and drive things without supervision and works collaboratively with the teams across the organization.

Soft Skills

• Have excellent soft skills and interpersonal skills to interact team members.
• Strategic Thinking with Research and Development mindset
• Excellent communication skills (verbal, written, and presentation)