Senior Engineer - Infrastructure and Cloud Engineering
Role Overview
Design, implement, operate, and continuously improve large-scale private cloud, virtualization, and observability platforms.
The hands-on role covers production and non-production environments and focuses on deployment, troubleshooting, automation, and optimization.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
Design, implement, operate, and continuously improve large-scale private cloud, virtualization, and observability platforms.
The hands-on role covers production and non-production environments and focuses on deployment, troubleshooting, automation, and optimization.
Responsibilities
- Design and operate observability services for metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, alerting, and service health using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and ELK/OpenSearch.
- Contribute to private cloud, virtualization, and container platforms based on OpenStack, Red Hat OpenShift, or related technologies.
- Build AI-powered operational agents using observability, monitoring, logging, ITSM, and platform telemetry to automate detection, analysis, workflows, and approved remediation.
- Support capacity planning, performance, upgrades, migrations, incident response, root cause analysis, and reliability improvements.
- Integrate platform management with ITSM processes and tools; collaborate across engineering, SRE, security, architecture, and operations.
- Create technical documentation, deliver knowledge-transfer sessions, and participate in on-call and critical-incident escalation.
- Improve support workflows, service onboarding, operational procedures, platform security, and governance alignment.
Qualifications and experience
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a related technology discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 5 years of hands-on experience in private cloud, virtualization, infrastructure, observability, or platform engineering.
- Experience with at least one major cloud or virtualization platform, such as OpenStack, Proxmox, or Red Hat OpenShift, or equivalent.
- Hands-on experience with AI-assisted operations, workflow automation, observability, and ITSM integration.
- Expert Linux administration and experience with compute, KVM, x86 hardware, hypervisors, firmware, and server lifecycle management.
- Understanding of hardware architecture, networking, and storage; experience with observability platforms and tools.
- Strong automation, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, GitOps, and scripting experience.
Relevant technologies
- Examples include Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK/OpenSearch, Splunk, Zabbix, Jira, ServiceNow, PagerDuty, and Opsgenie.
- Automation examples include Ansible, Terraform, Helm, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Python, Go, and Bash.
- Knowledge of security monitoring, SIEM, compliance, and data governance is an advantage.
Benefits
- Competitive salary package based on skills and experience, plus a performance-based yearly bonus.
- Esaad and Fazaa discount cards and family health coverage including dental, vision, and life insurance.
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