Senior Technical Engineer - Public Cloud

The Emirates Group; Dubai; On-site; AED 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

The Emirates Group is seeking a Senior Technical Engineer - Public Cloud to design, develop, and deliver secure, scalable cloud solutions. You will collaborate across architecture, security, networking, and DevOps to enable Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, and robust observability.

Lead efforts in cloud modernization and operate within enterprise standards to ensure high availability and cost efficiency. You will work with Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, Go, Docker, Kubernetes, and OCI technologies

Qualifications

• Degree or Honours (12+3 or equivalent) in a relevant field such as Computer Science, Computational Mathematics, Computer Engineering or Software Engineering.
• 5+ years working in a related IT Engineering

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deliver secure, scalable public cloud solutions aligned with enterprise standards.
• Collaborate with architecture, security, network, and DevOps teams to drive IaC, CI/CD, observability and FinOps practices.
• Ensure availability, performance and security requirements are met and risks are mitigated.
• Publish and maintain documentation, data catalogs, and deployment architectures.
• Guide project managers and technology leads for design and development of in-house solutions.

Skills

OCI knowledge

Networking skills

Cloud concepts

Python

TypeScript

Go

Docker

Kubernetes

OKE

CI/CD

Git

Monitoring

Automation

Multi-cloud

Education

Degree or Honours (12+3 or equivalent) in Computer Science, Computational Mathematics, Computer Engineering or Software Engineering

Tools

OCI

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

OCI Kubernetes Engine (OKE)

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, we're always at the forefront, pushing boundaries. We're on the lookout 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 team as a Senior Technical Engineer - Public Cloud.

Join our Public Cloud team, the backbone of our cloud modernization journey. We architect and engineer next generation cloud platforms that unify control across datacentres, networks, public and private cloud environments. With a strong emphasis on automation, agility, and cost optimization, we enable scalable, resilient, and secure infrastructure services that power critical business functions across the Emirates Group. Our team consists of highly skilled engineers and domain specialists who drive the evolution of hybrid cloud capabilities and deliver innovative solutions at enterprise scale. If you're passionate about building and modernizing platforms that shape the future of digital infrastructure, we welcome you to be part of our transformation.

As Senior Technical Engineer - Public Cloud you will design, develop, and deliver secure, scalable, and reliable public cloud solutions aligned with business needs and enterprise standards. The role will act as a technical expert within Public Cloud, supporting cloud automation, workload onboarding, platform engineering, and the development of internal self-service capabilities. Working closely with application, architecture, security, network, and DevOps teams, the role will drive the adoption of Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, observability, governance, and FinOps practices while ensuring solutions meet required standards for availability, performance, security, reliability, and operational support.

In this role you will:

• Develop IT Solutions that meet customer requirements. Ensure that the design is robust, appropriate and of high quality and conforming to corporate standards and in line with the technical strategy.
• Ensure that the developed architecture/solution meets the service level requirements in terms of expected availability, capacity, continuity, security, performance and reliability.
• Develop solutions architecture for assigned projects with the established EA standards and also support the development of technology advancements and adaptation of new technologies.
• Collaborate with other IT Technology teams to implement ongoing monitoring of the relevant technology to ensure level 1 & 2 incidents are configured within EMS.
• Guide Project Manager/Technology team managers for solution definition, technical design and development of in-house developed solutions. These are to be delivered as per agreed costs and timescales to meet signed-off functional, technical and process requirements.
• Ensure that assigned incidents are resolved within the agreed service levels and problems are defined and analysed in line with the Problem Management Process. Ensure that solutions to problems meet the architectural and security standards within the technology area and that impact on the business is minimised. Own and manage changes within the technology area.
• Publish and maintain high-quality documentation and data catalogue for the technology area. Working within the standard templates and documentation guidelines which includes detailed design, configuration details, support procedures, operations manuals and deployments architecture to ensure data accuracy, accessibility, and governance across systems..
• Manage end-of-life replacement of equipment and/or software within the technology area to ensure conformance to technical standards and support the technology initiatives and directions.
• Ensure the process and enhancement specifications are translated into effective programs with error-free code using the enterprise development tools, methods and languages.

Desired Candidate Profile

• Degree or Honours (12+3 or equivalent) in a relevant field such as Computer Science, Computational Mathematics, Computer Engineering or Software Engineering.
• 5+ years working in a related IT Engineering

Knowledge/Skills:

• Practical OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure) knowledge across Compute, Block Volume, Object Storage and File Storage, including availability, backup and disaster recovery design.
• Experience with OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure) tenancy and compartment design, IAM identity domains, federation, groups and dynamic groups, IAM policies and environment-specific access controls.
• Strong networking skills covering VCNs, subnets, routing, network security groups, DNS and load balancing, plus hybrid connectivity using DRGs, FastConnect and Site-to-Site VPN.
• Experience operating large public cloud footprints with strong knowledge of cloud concepts and best practices, including security, governance, resilience
• Demonstrable software development experience using Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, Go or a comparable language to build APIs, backend services and internal web applications.
• Understanding of containerisation and orchestration technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes and OCI Kubernetes Engine (OKE).
• Strong experience using multi-cloud governed and automated DevOps practices, Git and CI/CD pipelines, including automated testing and deployment.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, observability and troubleshooting across application and cloud infrastructure layers.
• Cloud certification in Relevant OCI certification, such as OCI Architect Professional.
• Experience with AWS or Azure and engineering standards across multiple cloud providers.

Leadership Role: No