Cloud IAAS Contract

Job Title: Technology Engineer (DevOps IaaS)

Job Location: Dubai – UAE

Job Duration: 12 months extendable

Responsibilities:

• Drive projects to move the non-compliant products into the standard stack.

• Automate the installation and configuration of standard stack items.

• Perform code review of peers.

• Establish the product backlog that require to be addressed on 2-week sprints.

• Drive backlog projects to completion with infrastructure as code approach.

• Continuous R&D and vendor engagement.

• Automate the installation to achieve Zero touch unattended deployment.

• Review all housekeeping activities and identify key processes that should be automated.

• Introduce Open-Source technologies into standard technology stack

• Design solutions that cater for enhancing the operational stability.

• Address Problem tickets, Risk and Audit items in the products backlog.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors of Computer Science or Equivalent

• Red Hat Certified Architect or Equivalent

• At least 10 years of experience at a relevant technical position in large organizations with hands on

automation knowledge

• Banking background

• Knowledge in Linux internals (Preferable RHEL / Ubuntu)

• Knowledge in Windows internals

• Comprehensive understanding in DevOps / SRE, IaC and 12 Factor Principles

• Excellent hands-on experience in configuration management, orchestration and IaC tools (Ansible,

Jenkins, Terraform)

• Strong understanding of Virtualization Technologies (KVM / Libvirt / oVirt / KubeVirt. OVM,

Openstack)

• Strong understanding of Software Defined Storage Technologies (CEPH, GlusterFS)

• Strong understanding of Repository and Artifact management Tools (Red Hat Satellite, Spacewalk,

Nexus)

• Strong understanding of Container Technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, Openshift)

• Strong understanding of ELK and its beats (Auditbeat, FileBeat)

• Strong understanding of OS Compliance Policies (CIS Benchmark)

• Agile methodologies and its ceremonies

• Architect, write and implement software that improves the stability, scalability, availability of

products.

• Own multiple services and have the authonomy to do what suits the business and our customers

in IT.

• Solve occurring problems and create solutions and automation to prevent them from happen

again.

• Plan for reliability for systems to work across multi datacenter/environment and handle the

outages.

• Support on call if needed

• Conceptual understanding about infrastructure and how it works,

• DNS (Authoritive and Non-Authoritive DNS, Dynamic and bind DNS, Forwarder)

• SSL Communication (Handshake of SSL traffic, Cipher Suites, Enc Algorithyms,)

• Active Directory (Security OUs, policies)

• Certificates (SAN, client-authentication, keystores, mutual ssl)

• Loadbalancers / Site Selectors / Firewall

• Vault Tools (Cyberark / Hashicorp)

• High Availability

• Knowledge about API communications (Rest/Soap), developing a new consumer/publisher for any

API

• Excellent Scripting in Groovy (writing Jenkins Files), Bash / Powershell, Python

• GITOPS driven configuration management and deployment

• Familiar and openminded to OpenSource technologies

• Security Awareness

• Strong understanding of troubleshooting. Deep dive to an issue, read logs, track the clues and

identify the problems.

• Strategic Thinking with Research and Development mindset.

• Adequate understanding of project management methodologies.

• Excellent communication skills (verbal, written, and presentation).