We are looking for an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer with strong hands-on expertise in OpenShift, Kubernetes, CI/CD automation, GitHub Actions, Helm, ArgoCD, and Jenkins. The successful candidate will be responsible for designing, implementing, automating, and supporting CI/CD pipelines and containerized application platforms across enterprise technology environments. The role involves working with both in-house microservices and vendor-based microservices, ensuring reliable, scalable, secure, and efficient application delivery.
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Location
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines for enterprise applications and microservices.
- Work extensively with Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes environments for application deployment, configuration, scaling, and troubleshooting.
- Develop and automate CI/CD workflows using GitHub Actions.
- Build and manage deployment workflows using ArgoCD and GitOps practices.
- Use Helm for Kubernetes/OpenShift application packaging, configuration, and deployments.
- Develop, maintain, and troubleshoot Jenkins pipelines and automation workflows.
- Use OpenShift oc commands extensively for application deployment, troubleshooting, configuration, monitoring, and pipeline automation.
- Automate build, deployment, testing, and release processes across different environments.
- Troubleshoot deployment failures, pipeline issues, container problems, and platform-related incidents.
- Work closely with software engineering, application, QA, architecture, security, and infrastructure teams to ensure smooth application delivery.
- Implement and maintain DevOps best practices across the software development lifecycle.
- Support continuous improvement of deployment processes, automation, reliability, and platform efficiency.
- Ensure consistent and reliable application deployments across development, testing, staging, and production environments.
- Participate in production support, incident resolution, root-cause analysis, and technical troubleshooting.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or related technology engineering roles.
- Strong enterprise experience working with OpenShift and Kubernetes.
- Proven experience implementing and managing CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong hands-on experience with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Helm, and ArgoCD.
- Strong practical experience using OpenShift oc commands for administration, deployment, and troubleshooting.
- Experience working with enterprise-scale microservices environments.
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
Preferred / Nice to Have
- Experience working in banking or other highly regulated enterprise environments.
- Experience with cloud-native technologies and container platforms.
- Exposure to GitOps and infrastructure automation practices.
- Experience supporting high-availability and production-critical applications.
- Familiarity with security, governance, and enterprise DevOps standards.
Key Competencies
- Strong ownership and accountability for platform and deployment reliability.
- Excellent troubleshooting and analytical skills.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
- Ability to work effectively with application development, infrastructure, QA, security, architecture, and vendor teams.
- Comfortable working in fast-paced enterprise environments.
- Strong focus on automation, reliability, scalability, and continuous improvement.
