Senior Technology Engineer - Public Cloud

GSSTech Group; Dubai; On-site; USD 60,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a seasoned DevOps Engineer with over 8 years of experience to enhance their technology engineering team. This role involves automating deployment processes, managing CI/CD pipelines, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless operations. The ideal candidate will have a solid background in cloud technologies, infrastructure management, and a passion for problem-solving. Join a forward-thinking company that values innovation and teamwork, where your expertise can make a significant impact on projects that drive success and efficiency across the organization.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of engineering experience with 5 years in a similar role.
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and cloud technologies.

Responsibilities

• Automate deployment and configuration management tasks.
• Collaborate with teams to design and manage environments.

Skills

DevOps methodology

Infrastructure and security knowledge

Communication skills

Troubleshooting skills

Micro Service Authentication and Authorization

API communications (REST/SOAP)

Understanding of OAuth2.0 standards

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Microsoft Azure

AWS

OCI

Jenkins

GitHub

SonarQube

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Job Content
Technology Engineering

• Experienced in DevOps methodology.
• Sound infrastructure and security knowledge.
• Clear internal and external communication, improving transparency across teams and stakeholders.
• Automate deployment and configuration management tasks to ensure consistent and scalable environments.
• Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure and application issues in collaboration with development and operations teams.
• Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines for deployments on Container Technologies like Native Kubernetes, OpenShift or Public Cloud like Microsoft Azure/AWS/OCI.
• Sound knowledge on Micro Service Authentication and Authorization process.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, deploy, and manage different environments using Terraform, Ansible, and other IaC tools.
• Sound knowledge on Public Cloud Provider like Microsoft Azure/AWS/OCI.
• Strong understanding of Jenkins-based Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment/Delivery (CICD) with automation using Shared Library, Pipeline Code, Groovy or Python scripting.
• Understanding of GitOps tools like ArgoCD.
• Strong understanding of logging and monitoring solutions like ELK, Prometheus, and Grafana.
• Knowledge about API communications (REST/SOAP), developing a new consumer/publisher for any API.
• Understanding of OAuth2.0 standards.

Delivery Experience

• Ability to work on projects from inception to delivery.
• Cross skills in delivery but also operational support as per the new DevOps methodologies.
• Comprehensive understanding of DevOps / SRE, IaC, and 12 Factor application principles.
• Ability to work under pressure, manage client expectations effectively.
• Stay up-to-date with industry best practices and emerging technologies.

Relationship Management

• Trustful and professional relationships with key stakeholders.
• Trustful and pragmatic approach to problem-solving.
• Ability to adopt the Group’s values and drive adoption of the values across the team.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree.

Experiences

• Above 8 years total engineering or operational experience.
• At least 5 relevant years of experience in a similar role.
• Experience within large and complex global enterprises defined by high availability, transaction rates, and geographical distribution.
• Good communication and articulation skills.

Knowledge & Skills

Technical/Functional:

• Experience in infrastructure, systems administration, design, and engineering, with cloud computing and DevOps practices.
• Experience on Container Technologies like Native Kubernetes/OpenShift.
• Good experience with CICD Pipelines and hands-on experience in integrations of DevOps and SecOps tools in Pipeline (like GitHub, Jenkins, SonarQube, Checkmarx, Sysdig, Nexus, Nexus-IQ, Cosign).
• Knowledge in developing APIs and integrating them into Pipelines.
• Good troubleshooting skills and analysis for BAU and incidents.
• Experience on IaC like Terraform/Biceps.
• Working experience on configuring Public Cloud Services on Microsoft Azure/AWS/OCI like Compute/Storage/Networking.