Senior Technical DevOps Engineer - SRE

Emirates; Dubai; On-site; AED 350,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

Emirates IT seeks a Senior Technical DevOps Engineer - SRE to fortify our cloud and on‑premise environments at our Dubai hub. You will drive DevSecOps, automation, and scalable architectures across multiple product lines.

Join a high‑velocity team that designs and implements CI/CD pipelines, container platforms, and security controls to accelerate delivery while ensuring reliability and compliance within a global airline ecosystem.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 5+ years of hands‑on build automation and CI/CD ecosystem experience: Terraform, Git, Groovy, Maven/Gradle, Docker, Nexus, Artifactory, Selenium, Jenkins, Docker, OpenShift.
• Experience with Kubernetes/OpenShift, HELM, ECR.
• Extensive experience in Hybrid cloud or AWS/Azure cloud environments.
• CI/CD for microservices architecture.
• Strong knowledge of systems monitoring/analytics (Dynatrace, Splunk).
• Infrastructure configuration/automation tools: Terraform, Puppet, Ansible.
• Deploying and troubleshooting highly available, secure containerized services.

Responsibilities

• Lead cloud adoption planning in collaboration with Architects and Security.
• Automate change management, build resiliency, monitoring, and capacity planning.
• Lead service reliability, scalability, and performance for product lines.
• Review deployments and environments to reduce failures and expand monitoring.
• Collaborate on change management strategies (canary deployments, rolling out releases).
• Enable full automation and keep the CI/CD pipeline healthy for production deployments.
• Build and operate CI/CD environments aligned with 12‑factor app principles.
• Advise on DevSecOps security solutions with engineering and product teams.
• Apply Site Reliability principles to ensure availability, latency, and efficient operations.

Skills

CI/CD practices

Cloud architecture

Automation

Monitoring & analytics

Security awareness

Container orchestration

Education

Degree in Computer Science

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Helm

ECR

Jenkins

Terraform

Ansible

Puppet

Nexus

Selenium

Git

Maven/Gradle

Job description

Job Purpose

At Emirates we believe in connecting the world to and through our global hub in Dubai and in constantly innovating to ensure our customers 'Fly Better'. Emirates Group IT thrives on the dynamic nature of technology Being pioneers in aviation innovation were always at the forefront pushing boundaries Were on the lookout for exceptional IT professionals to fortify our position as leaders in the industry Embark on a journey with the worlds largest international airline and become a vital part of our cutting edge information and technology team as Senior Technical DevOps Engineer - SRE.

Join our DevSecOps and Automation team as a key technologist driving DevSecOps and Automation practices at both the product and program levels in this pivotal role you will be instrumental in designing implementing and optimizing our DevOps strategies to enhance efficiency scalability and reliability across our technology landscape Your expertise will help us streamline operations reduce time to market and continuously improve our processes. If you are passionate about leveraging the latest DevOps tools and methodologies to drive innovation and excellence.

In This Role You Will

• Lead the discovery phase of Cloud adoption/ migration by partnering with the Architects and Security to strategize well defined DevOps and Cloud engineering architectures.
• Lead the automation of change management, building resiliency, monitoring, capacity planning and emergency response for set of products that you are responsible for.
• Act as a lead for service reliability, scalability and performance for a set of products as part of system enablement team for Agile release trains. Primary lead who identifies and improves the lifecycle of products/services by addressing flow of value through the continuous deployment pipelines.
• Review deployment and operational environments, i.e., execute initiatives to reduce failure, troubleshoot issues across the entire infrastructure stack, expand monitoring capabilities, and manage technical operations.
• Collaborate with Release Engineering, Product Development and Security teams to develop change management strategies e.g. canary-style deployments, pushing out new releases without interrupting services, and rolling back features that demonstrate problems.
• Enable automation of everything possible and ensure continuous deployment pipeline is always in good health and is responsible for the technical design and high-quality coding for technology products with built in quality and production deployment ready.
• Build, maintain and operate technical environments for software development, continuous integration and continuous deployment based on cloud application design principles such as 12 factor apps.
• Embrace DevSecOps principles to advise and architect security solutions with engineering and product teams, ensuring all technologies and projects are robust and adhere to security standards. Be an advisor to enable the teams to drive corrective, adaptive, preventative and perfective maintenance of solutions automating environment management, service management, infrastructure management and cyber security aspects of the systems.
• Apply Site reliability principles to ensure availability, latency, performance, efficiency, change management, monitoring, emergency response, and capacity planning and act as a bridge between development and operations by applying an engineering mind-set to system administration.

Qualification

To be considered for this role you must meet the below requirements:

• Degree or Honours (12+3 or equivalent) in a relevant field such as Computer Science, Computational Mathematics, Computer, Engineering or Software Engineering.
• 5+ years of hands‑on knowledge of build automation and continuous integration/delivery ecosystem: Terraform, Git, Groovy, Maven/Gradle, Docker, Nexus, Artifactory, Selenium, Jenkins, Docker, OpenShift.
• Experienced in Container Orchestration technologies development/Management/Troubleshooting (Kubernetes/OpenShift, HELM, ECR)
• Extensive Experience in architecture and supporting best practices in Hybrid cloud environment or Amazon AWS/Azure Cloud.
• Experience working with automation and CI/CD implementation for micro services architecture.
• Exceptional knowledge in systems monitoring, alerting and analytics (Dynatrace, Splunk, etc.)
• Experience with infrastructure configuration and automations processes and tools: Terraform, Puppet, Ansible.
• Experience in deploying and troubleshooting highly available, secure and reliable services with automatic failover using containers and container‑orchestration tools like Kubernetes/OpenShift.
• Expertise and experience in developing, operating and troubleshooting Kubernetes clusters at scale.
• Expertise and experience in developing, operating and troubleshooting cloud‑managed container management platform at scale.

Leadership Role: No

Salary & benefits

Join us in Dubai and enjoy an attractive tax‑free salary and travel benefits that are exclusive to our industry, including discounts on flights and hotels stays around the world. Find out what it’s like to live and work in our fast‑paced, cosmopolitan home city in the Dubai Lifestyle section of our website www.emirates.com/careers