Devops Engineer – PAAS Contract

Position: Technology Engineer (DevOps PaaS)
Location: Dubai, UAE
Contract Duration: Yearly Extendable Contract


Job Description

• Bachelors of Computer Science or equivalent Essential

• Red Hat Certified Architect or Equivalent Preferred

• At least 10 years experience in a relevant technical position with hands on automation knowledge

Essential

• Banking background Preferred

• Knowledge in Linux internals (Preferably RHEL/Ubuntu) Essential

• Knowledge in Windows internals Preferred

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

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

Jenkins, Terraform) Essential

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

Openstack) Preferred

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

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

Nexus) Essential

• Strong understanding of Container Technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift) Preferred

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

• Strong understanding of OS Compliance Policies (CIS Benchmark) Preferred

• Agile methodologies and its ceremonies Essential

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

products Preferred

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

IT. Essential

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

again. Essential

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

outages. Preferred

• Support on call if needed Essential

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







API Essential

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

• GITOPS driven configuration management and deployment Essential

• Familiar and openminded to Opensource technologies Essential

• Team player / quick adaptation to context change Essential

• Security Awareness Essential

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

identify the problems. Essential

• Strategic Thinking with Research and Development mindset. Essential

• Adequate understanding of project management methodologies. Essential

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