Senior Technical DevOps Engineer

Role purpose

Responsibilities

• Lead cloud adoption and migration discovery with architects and security teams and define DevOps and cloud engineering architectures.
• Automate change management, resilience, monitoring, capacity planning, and emergency response for assigned products.
• Lead product service reliability, scalability, and performance and improve value flow through continuous deployment pipelines.
• Review operational environments, reduce failures, troubleshoot infrastructure issues, expand monitoring, and manage technical operations.
• Work with release engineering, product development, and security on deployment strategies, including canary releases and rollbacks.
• Automate processes, maintain healthy deployment pipelines, and deliver high-quality designs and production-ready code.
• Build, maintain, and operate development, CI, and CD environments using cloud design principles such as 12-factor apps.
• Advise and architect security solutions and support corrective, adaptive, preventative, and perfective maintenance.
• Apply site reliability principles to availability, latency, performance, monitoring, emergency response, and capacity planning.

Qualifications

• Degree or honours (12+3 or equivalent) in a relevant field such as computer science, computational mathematics, computer engineering, or software engineering.
• At least 5 years of experience in OpenShift, Kubernetes, EKS, AKS, Linux, Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD, GitOps, Helm, container security, and cloud technologies.

Technical knowledge and skills

• Hands-on Kubernetes and container-platform experience; experience deploying and managing OpenShift, Amazon EKS, and Microsoft AKS.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes architecture, workloads, networking, storage, Services, Ingress, RBAC, ConfigMaps, Secrets, and namespaces.
• Experience with Docker/OCI containers, registries, Helm, and Kubernetes Operators.
• Knowledge of Terraform and Infrastructure as Code for automated provisioning; Ansible and Bash and/or Python for automation.
• Hands-on CI/CD and GitOps using tools such as Git, GitLab, Jenkins, and Argo CD.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes and cloud security, including secrets management, vulnerability scanning, image security, and policy enforcement.
• Experience with Dynatrace and Splunk for monitoring and observability and troubleshooting complex platform issues.
• Understanding of reliability, scalability, performance, high availability, backup, disaster recovery, security, and compliance.

About Emirates Group IT

Salary and benefits

• The posting describes a tax-free salary and travel benefits but does not state an amount or pay cadence.