Technology Engineer (UAE National)
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Emirates NBD is seeking a hands-on Technology Engineer to support the design, build, and operation of enterprise technology platforms. The role requires strong experience with Cloudera CDP, automation, DevOps, and containerization.
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Company Introduction
Emirates NBD is a market leader across the MENAT (Middle East, North Africa and Türkiye) region with a presence in 13 countries, serving over 9 million customers.
Emirates NBD is the leading financial services brand in the United Arab Emirates with a brand value of approximately USD 4 billion.
We serve our customers and help them realize their financial objectives through a range of banking products and services including retail banking, corporate & institutional banking, Islamic banking, investment banking, private banking, asset management, global markets and treasury, and brokerage operations.
We are a key participant in the global digital banking industry, with 97% of all financial transactions and requests conducted outside of our branches.
We also operate Liv, the lifestyle digital bank by Emirates NBD.
With over half a million users, it continues to be the fastest-growing digital bank in the region.
***In line with the UAE Government’s strategy in empowering and developing nationals, Emirates NBD is committed to welcoming the young generation into an innovative, modern and supportive work environment to contribute to the nation's success.
We are looking to find the best UAEN talent to join our ENBD family.***
Job Overview
We are looking for a hands-on
Technology Engineer
to join our Group IT Technology Chapter and support the design, build, operation, and continuous improvement of enterprise technology platforms.
This role is ideal for an engineer with strong Cloudera CDP, automation, DevOps, containerization, and platform operations experience who enjoys working in complex, high-availability environments.
The successful candidate will work within a matrix structure, reporting into the VP Technology Chapter while being assigned to a platform squad for day-to-day delivery, backlog prioritization, and technical execution.
You will help onboard customers and applications to modern platforms through self-service, automation, and close collaboration with platform, product, security, architecture, data, and agile teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Install, configure, maintain, and support Cloudera CDP platforms, including CDP 7.1.9 or later and Cloudera Data Services versions 1.5.4 and 1.5.5.
- Provide hands-on Tier 2 production support for Cloudera environments, including platform maintenance, security enablement, observability, and performance optimization.
- Troubleshoot Spark, Hive, and YARN jobs, working closely with data engineering teams to improve Spark job performance.
- Drive automation across platform operations, including security and regulatory checks, automated patching, infrastructure workflows, and CI/CD pipelines for data and analytics projects.
- Develop automation using Shell, Terraform, Groovy, Ansible, and preferably Python-based workflows.
- Support containerization and container management using Podman, Docker, OpenShift, and Kubernetes.
- Contribute to product roadmaps, platform backlog execution, technology stack reduction, and total cost of ownership improvement initiatives.
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders across technical platforms, security, architecture, data, agile, infrastructure, application, and product teams.
- Apply Agile, DevOps, and product management practices to deliver reliable, scalable, and secure technology services.
Job Requirements
- ***Education***
- Bachelor’s degree in IT, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; or equivalent professional experience.
- ***Key Technologies***
- Cloudera CDP, Cloudera Data Services, Spark, Hive, YARN, Ansible, Terraform, Shell scripting, Groovy, Python, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Podman, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Linux, Git, CI/CD, observability, automation, Agile, and DevOps.
- ***Experiences***
- At least 2 years of total engineering or operational experience, including at least 1 year in a similar technology engineering or platform operations role.
- Strong hands-on experience with Cloudera CDP platform operations, installation, maintenance, troubleshooting, and performance optimization.
- Experience in infrastructure, systems administration, design, and engineering, with a focus on cloud computing, DevOps, and automation.
- Good understanding of Linux operating systems, networking fundamentals, source control using Git, and Agile engineering practices.
- Experience working in large, complex, high-availability enterprise environments with demanding transaction volumes and geographically distributed systems.
- Understanding of technical risk, information security, compliance, audit, and regulatory requirements within enterprise technology environments.
- Ability to build trusted relationships with stakeholders and communicate technical concepts clearly.
- Strategic mindset with the ability to balance long-term platform objectives with practical delivery needs.
- There’s never been a better time to join Emirates NBD.
- We’re one of the region’s most recognizable brands.
- We’re banking innovation leaders.
- We’re growing across both the UAE and our global offices.
- We offer a huge range of professional development opportunities to accelerate your career.
- It also goes without saying that we provide extremely competitive rewards, benefits and perks too, like our flexible work policy so you can work from home whenever it suits.
- At ENBD, we encourage interested candidates to review the key responsibilities and qualifications for each role and apply for positions that match their skills and capabilities.
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