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Join our Observability team as a Senior Technical DevOps Engineer, where you will lead the implementation and administration of state-of-the-art monitoring tools for infrastructure, applications, and platforms. The Senior Technical DevOps Engineer will act as a key technologist in the DevOps and Automation team, driving DevOps and Automation practices at the product and program level. You will engineer enterprise-level technology solutions for CI/CD and Cloud automation through infrastructure as code, containerization, and configuration management.
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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 the 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.
- Review deployment and operational environments, executing 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 and rolling back features that demonstrate problems.
- Enable automation of everything possible and ensure the continuous deployment pipeline is always in good health, while being responsible for the technical design and high-quality coding for technology products.
- 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.
Requirements
- Degree or Honours (12+3 or equivalent) in Information Technology or relevant.
- 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or similar roles.
- Hands-on experience implementing and managing enterprise-class observability and self-healing solutions such as Splunk, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Datadog, Grafana, and Automic Orchestrator.
- Strong scripting and automation skills using Python, Bash, PowerShell, Shell scripting, REX, and JCL, with experience integrating and consuming REST APIs.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and tools such as Jenkins and GitLab.
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. Find out what it’s like to live and work in our fast-paced, cosmopolitan home city in the Dubai Lifestyle section of our website.
