Senior Technical DevOps Engineer SRE

Emirates Airlines - Other locations; Dubai; On-site; AED 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading international airline based in Dubai is seeking a skilled technologist to enhance DevOps and automation strategies. This role focuses on engineering cloud solutions and optimizing CI/CD processes, ensuring system reliability and performance. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in IT, particularly in DevOps and Cloud migration. You will collaborate with various teams to drive successful product and service delivery, while enjoying an attractive tax-free salary and industry-exclusive travel benefits.

Benefits

Tax-free salary

Travel benefits

Discounts on flights and hotels

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Information Technology.
• Experience in DevOps implementation and Cloud Computing/Migration.
• Hands-on knowledge of CI/CD ecosystem tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead Cloud adoption/migration and automation strategies.
• Act as a lead for service reliability and performance.
• Collaborate with teams for change management strategies.

Skills

Infrastructure as Code

Containerization

CI/CD Automation

Site Reliability Engineering

DevSecOps

Cloud Computing

Education

Degree in Computer Science

Tools

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Overview

At Emirates we believe in connecting the world to and through our global hub in Dubai and in innovating to ensure our customers Fly Better. Emirates Group IT thrives on the dynamic nature of technology and is at the forefront of aviation innovation. We are looking for exceptional IT professionals to fortify our position as leaders in the industry. Embark on a journey with the world’s largest international airline and become a vital part of our cutting-edge information and technology.

Join our DevOps and Automation team as a key technologist, driving DevOps and automation practices at both the product and program levels. In this pivotal role, you will design, implement, and optimize our DevOps strategies to enhance efficiency, scalability, and reliability across our technology landscape.

As a key technologist in the DevOps and Automation team, you will engineer enterprise-level technology solutions for CI/CD and Cloud automation through infrastructure as code, containerisation, and configuration management. Ensure robust Cloud engineering and DevOps practices for solution planning, development, deployment, release, hyper-care, and operations. Apply Site Reliability Engineering 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 mindset to system administration.

Responsibilities

• Lead the discovery phase of Cloud adoption/migration by partnering with 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 the set of products you are responsible for.
• Act as a lead for service reliability, scalability, and performance for a set of products as part of the system enablement team for Agile release trains. Primary lead who identifies and improves the lifecycle of products/services by addressing value flow through the continuous deployment pipelines.
• Review deployment and operational environments, execute initiatives to reduce failures, troubleshoot issues across the 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 the continuous deployment pipeline is in good health and responsible for the technical design and high-quality coding for technology products with built-in quality and production deployment readiness.
• 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 teams to drive corrective, adaptive, preventative and perfective maintenance of solutions automating environment management, service management, infrastructure management and cybersecurity aspects of the systems.
• Apply Site Reliability Engineering 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 mindset to system administration.

Qualifications

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

• Degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science
• 5+ years of experience in Information Technology
• Experience in DevOps implementation and Cloud Computing/Migration (AWS, Azure, VMware, GCP) and Systems Administration, including a minimum of 2-3 years of working experience in one of the following:
  • Enterprise-level IT projects with Cloud-based technologies (PaaS, IaaS, and DevOps implementation: Git, Git branching strategies, Gitlab, Artifact Repository, Maven/Gradle/NPM, Docker, Shell Scripting, Python, Groovy, Go)
  • Container orchestration technologies development/management/troubleshooting (Kubernetes/OpenShift, HELM, ECR)
  • Infrastructure/configuration management (Terraform, Ansible)
  • Cloud computing/administration/migration (AWS)
  • Systems/Application monitoring, dashboards, alerting and analytics (e.g., AppDynamics, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, Logstash, Datadog)
  • Application development tools (Jira, Confluence, Apptio, Planview, Power BI)

Knowledge/Skills

• Hands-on knowledge of build automation and CI/CD ecosystem: Git, Groovy, Maven/Gradle, Docker, Nexus, Artifactory, Selenium, Gitlab, OpenShift.
• Experience with infrastructure configuration and automation tools: Terraform, Puppet, Ansible.
• Experience deploying and troubleshooting highly available, secure and reliable services with automatic failover using containers and container-orchestration tools like Kubernetes/OpenShift.
• Experience with Linux management tools such as automated provisioning (Ansible, Puppet, Razor), containers (Docker), virtualization (VMware, KVM).
• Experience working with automation and CI/CD implementation for microservices architecture.
• Hands-on experience designing and building solutions that support multi-cloud environments.

Technology Domain Key Technologies

• Clouds, Infrastructure Managers and Container Engines: Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift, AWS, VMware, OpenStack, OpenShift, Helm, Azure, GCP, ECR, Quay
• CI/CD: Jenkins, Jenkins Pipeline as code, Git, Git Branching Strategies, JMeter, Gatling, Docker, OpenShift, Kubernetes, Jira/Agile, Confluence, VRACodeStream, Azure DevOps, AWS DevOps, Maven, Gradle, NPM, Artifact Repository, SonarQube, ShiftLeft
• Scripting: Go, Shell, Groovy, Python, Ruby, JSON, YAML

Leadership

Leadership role: No

Salary & Benefits

Join us in Dubai and enjoy an attractive tax-free salary and travel benefits exclusive to our industry, including discounts on flights and hotel 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