Sr. DevOps Engineer - OpenShift & CI/CD

Global Software Solutions Group; Dubai; On-site; AED 350,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

Global Software Solutions Group is seeking an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer with hands-on expertise in CI/CD, OpenShift, Kubernetes, and DevOps automation to design, implement, and optimize production-grade pipelines.

You will manage deployment pipelines across Kubernetes/OpenShift, build automated workflows with GitHub Actions and Jenkins, and drive GitOps practices with ArgoCD while ensuring security and observability.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience designing and operating enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with Kubernetes and OpenShift administration and deployments.
• Proficiency with GitHub Actions and Jenkins for automated workflows.
• Knowledge of GitOps practices and declarative deployment tooling.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, manage, and optimize CI/CD pipelines for enterprise deployments.
• Build and manage deployment pipelines across Kubernetes/OpenShift environments.
• Develop and maintain automated CI/CD workflows using GitHub Actions and Jenkins; Groovy scripting for pipelines.

Skills

CI/CD

OpenShift

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

GitOps

Service Mesh

Automation

Tools

ArgoCD

Groovy

Job description

We are looking for an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer with strong hands-on expertise in CI/CD, OpenShift, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitOps, Service Mesh, and DevOps automation.

The successful candidate will be responsible for designing, implementing, managing, and optimizing CI/CD pipelines and containerized application environments across Kubernetes and OpenShift platforms. The role requires strong practical experience in enterprise DevOps environments, automation, microservices security, observability, and cross-functional collaboration.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, manage, and optimize CI/CD pipelines for enterprise application deployments
• Build and manage deployment pipelines across container technologies including Native Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift
• Develop and maintain automated CI/CD workflows using GitHub Actions
• Implement and manage Jenkins-based Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines
• Develop and maintain Jenkins Shared Libraries, Pipeline-as-Code, and Groovy scripting for CI/CD automation
• Implement and manage GitOps-based deployment practices using tools such as ArgoCD
• Work with development and engineering teams to automate application build, deployment, release, and environment management processes
• Manage and support multiple application environments across development, testing, staging, and production
• Implement and maintain Service Mesh solutions within containerized and microservices environments
• Support secure communication between microservices and understand microservice authentication and authorization mechanisms
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, deploy, configure, and manage different application environments
• Implement DevOps automation to improve deployment reliability, repeatability, and efficiency
• Monitor application and platform health and troubleshoot infrastructure, deployment, and pipeline issues
• Implement and maintain enterprise logging and monitoring solutions
• Work with ELK Stack, Prometheus, and Grafana for centralized logging, monitoring, metrics, dashboards, and troubleshooting
• Support production deployments, incident resolution, performance monitoring, and continuous platform improvements
• Contribute to DevOps standards, automation frameworks, engineering best practices, and platform reliability initiatives

Required Technical Skills

CI/CD & Automation

• Strong hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines
• Strong experience with Jenkins
• Experience developing Jenkins Shared Libraries
• Strong understanding of Pipeline-as-Code
• Hands-on experience with Groovy scripting for Jenkins automation
• Strong hands-on experience with GitHub Actions

Kubernetes & OpenShift

• Strong hands-on experience with Native Kubernetes
• Strong hands-on experience with Red Hat OpenShift administration and deployments
• Experience deploying and managing containerized applications across Kubernetes/OpenShift environments
• Strong understanding of container-based application deployment and orchestration

GitOps

• Practical experience with GitOps methodologies
• Hands-on experience with ArgoCD or similar GitOps tools
• Understanding of automated, declarative application deployment and environment management

Service Mesh & Microservices Security

• Practical hands-on experience with Service Mesh technologies
• Strong understanding of microservices architecture
• Strong understanding of microservice authentication and authorization processes
• Understanding of secure service-to-service communication

Monitoring & Observability

• Strong understanding of enterprise logging and monitoring solutions
• Hands-on experience with ELK Stack
• Hands-on experience with Prometheus
• Hands-on experience with Grafana
• Ability to troubleshoot application and platform issues using logs, metrics, and monitoring dashboards

Required Competencies

• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work across development, testing, operations, security, and infrastructure teams
• Strong understanding of enterprise DevOps practices and automation
• Ability to manage multiple environments and deployment pipelines
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Strong ownership of production stability, deployment quality, and continuous improvement
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced Agile/DevOps environment

Preferred Experience

• Experience working in banking or financial services environments
• Experience supporting enterprise-scale Kubernetes/OpenShift platforms
• Experience with highly available and production-critical applications
• Exposure to security, compliance, and controlled deployment practices within regulated environments