Senior Site Reliability Engineer

PowerToFly; Dubai; Hybrid; AED 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A global technology company in Dubai seeks a mid-level DevOps engineer to operate SaaS capabilities and manage Kubernetes infrastructure. The ideal candidate should have over 5 years' experience with cloud platforms and container technologies. Responsibilities include collaboration with engineers, designing monitoring systems, and providing technical support. This role emphasizes professional growth and work-life balance within a flexible hybrid schedule.

Benefits

Flexible hybrid schedule

Professional development opportunities

Focus on work-life balance

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience managing Kubernetes and container technologies.
• Expert level understanding of cloud computing platforms.
• Ability to write scripts to deploy infrastructure/applications.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate to operate SaaS capabilities across the cloud.
• Design and configure monitoring systems for SaaS products.
• Manage infra for ArcGIS Velocity and resolve issues.

Skills

Kubernetes management

Scripting (Bash, Python, Golang)

Cloud computing (Azure, EC2)

YAML syntax

Continuous integration practices

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, GIS, or information systems

Tools

Docker

ELK

Prometheus

Azure DevOps

GitHub

Job description

Overview

Join us to work collaboratively with our talented team of dynamic and passionate engineers to deliver capabilities that enable our customers to make a difference. You'll deploy and operate robust technology that is powered by ArcGIS Velocity (Internet of Things [IoT] analytics) and cloud scale architectures. You will have the opportunity to design, deploy, and operate next-generation real-time and big data GIS software-as-a-service (SaaS) capabilities for thousands of cloud users worldwide.

Our teams have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures that support an environment that promotes professional development. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded engineer and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.

Our team also puts a high value on work-life balance, and we understand that striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here. We offer a flexible hybrid schedule so you can have a more productive and well-balanced life both in and outside of work.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with a team of DevOps engineers to operate SaaS capabilities across multiple regions on the cloud platform
• Design, implement, configure, and utilize monitoring systems to monitor the health of SaaS products
• Manage infrastructure used for ArcGIS Velocity, respond to alerts, and troubleshoot problems to resolution
• Design and implement the deployment and upgrade containerized micro-service components that, when combined, power Esri’s SaaS offerings
• Participate in technical spike efforts, bringing new innovative ideas to future versions of our software
• Troubleshoot the system incidents and provide root cause analysis reports
• Provide rotational on-call technical support

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience managing Kubernetes (AKS, EKS), logging and monitoring (ELK, Prometheus), and container technologies (Docker)
• Comfortable with YAML syntax (writing Azure DevOps pipelines and Kubernetes resources)
• Ability to write scripts to deploy infrastructure and/or applications (Bash, Python, Golang)
• Expert level understanding and experience with cloud computing platforms (Microsoft Azure or Amazon EC2)
• Ability to work with continuous integration and delivery best practices
• Ability to write scripts to deploy infrastructure and/or applications (Bash, Python, Golang, Terraform)
• Working knowledge of a source control and issue management system, preferably GitHub
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, GIS, or information systems

Recommended Qualifications

• Master's degree in computer science, computer engineering, GIS, or information systems
• 5+ years of experience designing, administering, and/or maintaining cloud environments, such as Azure, supporting 24×7 high-availability production environments
• Interest in working with GitOps principles to automate the deployment of applications on Kubernetes clusters
• Knowledge of operating resilient, highly available, scalable, and performance SaaS capabilities
• Experience operating and managing Apache Kafka with high-velocity data
• Experience operating cloud native storage solutions
• Familiarity in deploying and operating reactive applications using Scala, the Play framework, and Akka
• Knowledge of Esri ArcGIS or other web mapping technologies

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About Esri

At Esri, diversity is more than just a word on a map. When employees of different experiences, perspectives, backgrounds, and cultures come together, we are more innovative and ultimately a better place to work. We believe in having a diverse workforce that is unified under our mission of creating positive global change. We understand that diversity, equity, and inclusion is not a destination but an ongoing process. We are committed to the continuation of learning, growing, and changing our workplace so every employee can contribute to their life’s best work. Our commitment to these principles extends to the global communities we serve by creating positive change with GIS technology. For more information on Esri’s Racial Equity and Social Justice initiatives, please visit our website here.

If you don’t meet all of the preferred qualifications for this position, we encourage you to still apply!

Esri is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you need reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please email [e-mail] and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Please note that only those inquiries concerning a request for reasonable accommodation will be responded to from this e-mail address.

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Requisition ID: 2026-3784

Available in

Dubai, AE

Job Category

Professional Services and Consulting

Role Type

Individual Contributor

Experience Level

Mid Level