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. We are pioneers in aviation innovation and are always at the forefront, pushing boundaries. 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 be instrumental in designing, implementing, and optimizing 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 drive DevOps and Automation practices at the product and program level. Engineers 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, technology development, deployment, release, hyper-care and operations of technology solutions. Apply site reliability 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.
In this role you will :
- Lead the discovery phase of Cloud adoption / migration by partnering with the 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 a set of products that 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 flow of value through the continuous deployment pipelines
- Review deployment and operational environments, i.e., execute initiatives to reduce failure, troubleshoot issues across the entire 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 continuous deployment pipeline is always in good health and is responsible for the technical design and high-quality coding for technology products with built-in quality and production deployment ready
- 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 the teams to drive corrective, adaptive, preventative and perfective maintenance of solutions automating environment management, service management, infrastructure management and cyber security aspects of the systems
- Apply site reliability 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, that includes a minimum of 2-3 years of working experience in one of the following: Enterprise-level IT projects; 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 (Like AppDynamics, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, Logstash, Datadog); Application development (Jira, Confluence, Apptio, Planview, Power BI)
Knowledge / skills :
- Hands on knowledge of build automation and continuous integration / delivery ecosystem: Git, Groovy, Maven / Gradle, Docker, Nexus, Artifactory, Selenium, Gitlab, Docker, OpenShift
- Experience with infrastructure configuration and automation processes and tools: Terraform, Puppet, Ansible
- Experience in 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, and razor), containers (docker), virtualization (VMware, KVM)
- Experience working with automation and CI / CD implementation for microservices architecture
- Hands-on experience on designing and building solutions that allow 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 (Declarative, Scripted, Shared Library), GIT, Git Branching Strategies, JMeter, Gatling, Docker, OpenShift, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Jira-Agile, Confluence, VRACodeStream, Azure DevOps, AWS DevOps, Maven, Gradle, NPM, Artifact Repository, SonarQube, ShiftLeft
- Scripting : Go (Golang), Shell (Bash), Groovy, Python, Ruby, JSON, YAML
Leadership role : No
Salary & benefits
Join us in Dubai and enjoy an attractive tax-free salary and travel benefits that are exclusive to our industry, including discounts on flights and hotel stays around the world.