Database Automation Engineer Contract

Position: Technology Engineer – Database Automation Engineer
Location: Dubai, UAE
Contract Duration: 12 months extendable
Experience: 8 to 12 years

Technical Skills and 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

• Knowledge in Linux internals (Preferable RHEL / Ubuntu)

• 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 Repository and Artifact management Tools (Red Hat Satellite,
Spacewalk, Nexus)

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

• Agile methodologies and its ceremonies

• Own multiple services and have the autonomy 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.

• Conceptual understanding about infrastructure and how it works,
o DNS (Authoritive and Non-Authoritive DNS, Dynamic and bind DNS, Forwarder)
o SSL Communication (Handshake of SSL traffic, Cipher Suites, Enc Algorithyms,)
o Active Directory (Security OUs, policies)
o Certificates (SAN, client-authentication, keystores, mutual ssl)
o Loadbalancers / Site Selectors / Firewall
o Vault Tools (Cyberark / Hashicorp)
o High Availability

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

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

• GITOPS driven configuration management and deployment

• Familiar and openminded to OpenSource technologies