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

GSSTech Group; United Arab Emirates; On-site; AED 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology company in the UAE is seeking an experienced DevOps / Platform Engineer to join their technology team. The ideal candidate has expertise in OpenShift, Kafka, and CI/CD, with a postgraduate degree in Computer Science or related field. They should have at least 5 years of hands-on experience in building cloud-native platforms and a strong understanding of regulatory compliance in data handling.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of development and design experience in OpenShift/Jenkins, ArgoCD and Kafka.
• Hands-on experience building scalable, secure, and cloud-native platforms.
• Experience in Agile methodology.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain cloud-native platforms.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines and automation.
• Ensure compliance with data regulatory requirements.

Skills

Containerization and orchestration

Kafka setup and configuration

Public Cloud experience

Linux OS configuration

Agile methodology

Soft skills

Education

Postgraduate in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

OpenShift/Kubernetes

Jenkins

ArgoCD

Job description

Overview

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). 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 experience (preferably Azure and OCI)
• Linux OS configuration and 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 work collaboratively with the teams across the organization.

Soft Skills

• Have excellent soft skills and interpersonal skills to interact with team members.
• Strategic thinking with research and development mindset.
• Excellent communication skills (verbal, written, and presentation).