Senior Software Engineer
Role Overview
Senior Software Engineer / SME supporting a Vodafone transformation programme in Qatar.
Full-time, 12-month extendable contract; the description specifies on-site work.
The programme covers enterprise-scale hybrid cloud and on-premises environments, with a focus on automation, security, and operational excellence.
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Role overview
Senior Software Engineer / SME supporting a Vodafone transformation programme in Qatar.
Full-time, 12-month extendable contract; the description specifies on-site work.
The programme covers enterprise-scale hybrid cloud and on-premises environments, with a focus on automation, security, and operational excellence.
Infrastructure and operations
- Design, build, configure, and support Oracle DBX stack infrastructure across on-premises and cloud environments.
- Manage high-availability platforms, disaster recovery, backup, and restoration processes.
- Troubleshoot infrastructure, networking, virtualization, database, and application issues and perform root cause analysis.
- Administer OLVM, VMware ESXi/vCenter, and Oracle VM platforms; administer Oracle Linux through patching, hardening, tuning, and optimization.
DevOps and security
- Embed security controls in CI/CD pipelines and support DevOps and DevSecOps initiatives.
- Support security operations, incident response, vulnerability remediation, and compliance requirements.
- Lead infrastructure automation using Bash, Python, Ansible, and Jenkins.
Oracle database administration
- Install, configure, maintain, and optimize Oracle databases including RAC, ASM, Data Guard, OEM, and backup and recovery solutions.
- Support database cloning and replication, flashback configuration, DR testing, performance analysis, and incident impact assessments.
Infrastructure and cloud experience
- 8–10+ years of hands-on experience in enterprise infrastructure environments.
- Strong experience with hybrid cloud and on-premises deployments; expertise in VMware, OLVM, and Oracle VM.
- Strong Linux administration, including Oracle Linux 7/8/9/10.
- Networking fundamentals including TCP/IP, DNS, VLANs, SAN, and TLS/HTTPS.
- Cloud platform experience; OCI is preferred.
DevOps, security, and Oracle expertise
- Experience with Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Docker, Podman, CRI-O, Kubernetes, Bash, and Python.
- Experience automating infrastructure, deployment, monitoring, and remediation activities.
- Experience with firewalls, network segmentation, endpoint security, SIEM, vulnerability and certificate management, patch management, and security hardening.
- Oracle DBA expertise across RAC, ASM, Data Guard, backup and recovery, OEM, DR testing, database performance analysis, and tuning.
Additional qualifications
- Strong troubleshooting and analytical capabilities and experience supporting business-critical, high-availability environments.
- Telecom or other highly regulated enterprise experience is highly desirable.
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