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Senior Engineer - Infrastructure and Cloud Engineering

Core42
Abu Dhabi, UAE
Full-time
Mid-Senior
Onsite
Discovered 4 days ago
Private cloud and virtualizationOpenStackRed Hat OpenShiftLinux administrationObservability (metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, alerting)Prometheus

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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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