Senior DevOps Engineer

Job Purpose
At Emirates we believe in connecting the world to and through our global hub in Dubai and in constantly innovating to ensure our customers Fly Better Emirates Group IT thrives on the dynamic nature of technology Being pioneers in aviation innovation were always at the forefront pushing boundaries Were on the lookout for exceptional IT professionals to fortify our position as leaders in the industry Embark on a journey with the worlds largest international airline and become a vital part of our cutting edge information and technology.

Join our DevOps and Automation team as a key technologist, driving DevOps and automation practices at both the product and program levels. In this pivotal role, you will be instrumental in designing, implementing, and optimizing our DevOps strategies to enhance efficiency, scalability, and reliability across our technology landscape.

The Senior Engineer is a core member of the DevOps platform or enablement team who builds, maintains and rolls out CI/CD pipelines as service to the autonomous team to enable them deliver software better and quicker for the Emirates group. The role involves the design, development, implementation and maintenance of continuous deployment solutions and products, and coaching the software engineers on DevOps, automation and cloud adoption.

In This Role You Will

• Creates and maintains fully automated CI/CD pipelines for code deployment, integration of test automation, code quality, telemetry and orchestration for automated build and release of software.
• Configures and tailors build pipelines to support continuous integration and delivery for products and technologies that will help optimize for performance, scalability and supportability by working in enablement team of Agile release trains.
• Actively guides teams on container deployment & orchestration, manages, improves and monitors cloud infrastructure including cloud shared services/ landing zones.
• Builds and deploys Docker containers to break up monolithic app into micro services, improving developer workflow, increasing scalability, and optimizing speed.
• Design effective monitoring, alerting and log aggregation to identify and respond to issues proactively to improve reliability of solutions, well versed with key container orchestration technologies and containerization principles and works guided by Senior technical engineer on infrastructure cloud migration, virtualization, performance analysis, log storage systems and new functionality enablement, in a multi-cloud environment.
• Work on problems of diverse scope where analysis of data requires evaluation of identifiable factors. Demonstrate good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions
• Work with senior technical engineers in the technical design process by contributing in the analysis of technical application requirements.
• Troubleshoot issues, fixes defects that are moderate to high complexity and carry out testing independently.
• Shadows Senior Technical Engineer/ Principal Engineer to design and architect components and collaborate with members of the cross functional team to identify areas of inefficiency and propose solutions.
• Apply Site reliability principles to ensure availability, latency, performance, efficiency, change management, monitoring, emergency response, and capacity planning and act as a bridge between development and operations by applying an engineering mind-set to system administration.

Qualification

To be considered for the role you must meet the below requirements:

• Degree in Computer Science, Computational Mathematics, Computer Engineering or Software Engineering.
• 3+ years of Information Technology experience with experience in DevOps implementation and/or Cloud Computing/Migration (AWS, Azure, VMware, GCP) and Systems Administration.
• Experience in architecture and support best practices in Hybrid cloud environment or Amazon AWS/Azure Cloud.

Knowledge/skills

• Knowledge in systems monitoring, alerting and analytics (AppDynamics, Logstash, Splunk, etc.)
• Hands on knowledge of build automation and continuous integration/delivery ecosystem: Git, Groovy, Maven/Gradle, Docker, Nexus, Artifactory, Selenium, Jenkins, Docker, Openshift.
• Experience with infrastructure configuration and automations processes and tools: Terraform, Puppet, Ansible.
• Experience in deploying and troubleshooting highly available, secure and reliable services with automatic failover using containers and container-orchestration tools like Kubernetes/Openshift.
• Experience with issues facing large scale server environments.
• Experience with Linux management tools such as automated provisioning (ansible, puppet, and razor), containers (docker), virtualization (VMware, KVM).
• Experience in Scripting (shell, python, Go)
• Skills for monitoring and automation.
• Experience working with automation and CI/CD implementation for micro services architecture.
• Hands-on experience on designing and building solutions that allow multi cloud environments.

Technology Domain Key Technologies

• Clouds, Infrastructure Managers and Container Engines : Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, VMWare, OpenStack, OpenShift, Helm, Azure, GCP
• CI/CD : Jenkins, GIT, Jmeter, Gatling, Docker, Openshift, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Jira-Agile, Confluence, VRA-CodeStream, Azure Devops, AWS Devops, maven, gradle, Zalenium grid.
• Scripting : Go (Golang), Shell (Bash/KSH), Python, Ruby, JSON, YAML
• Operating System : Linux (RedHat, CentOS) and Windows.
• Monitoring and logging : Grafana, ELK, AppDynamics, Dynatrace, Splunk, Zabbix, Prometheus, Fluentd
• Provisioning/Config Management and Automation tools : Terraform, AWS Cloudformation, Azure ARM, Packer, Ansible, Puppet

Leadership role: No

Salary & benefits

Join us in Dubai and enjoy an attractive tax-free salary and travel benefits that are exclusive to our industry, including discounts on flights and hotel stays around the world. Find out what it's like to live and work in our fast-paced, cosmopolitan home city in the Dubai Lifestyle section of our website