Senior DevOps Data Engineer - The Emirates Group

Job Purpose: The Senior DevOps Data Engineer is a core member of the DevOps platform or enablement team who builds maintains and rolls out CI/CD pipelines as a service to the autonomous team to enable them to 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:

• Create and maintain fully automated CI/CD pipelines for code deployment integration of test automation code quality telemetry and orchestration for automated build and release of software.
• Configure and tailorbuild pipelines to support continuous integration and delivery for products and technologies that will help optimize for performance scalability and supportability by working in the enablement team of Agile release trains.
• Actively guide teams on container deployment & orchestration manage improve and monitor cloud infrastructure including cloudshared services/ landing zones.
• Build and deploy Docker containers to break up monolithic apps into microservices improving developer workflow increasing scalability and optimizing speed.
• Design effective monitoring alerting and log aggregation to identify and respond to issues proactively to improve the reliability of solutions well versed with key container orchestration technologies and containerization principles and works guided by a Senior technical engineer on infrastructure cloud migration virtualization performance analysis log storage systems and new functionality enablement in a multicloud 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 fix defects that are moderate to high complexity and carry out testing independently.
• Shadow Senior Technical Engineer/ Principal Engineer to design and architect components and collaborate with members of the crossfunctional 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 mindset to system administration.

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

• Degree or Honours (123 or equivalent) in relevant fields such as Computer Science Computational Mathematics Computer Engineering or Software Engineering. Fewer years of experience will be considered for masters Degree holders
• 2 Years of handson experience in DevOps implementation and Cloud Computing/Migration (AWS Azure VMware GCP) and Systems Administration.
• Experience in architecture and support best practices in a Hybrid cloud environment or Amazon AWS/Azure Cloud.
• Knowledge in systems monitoring alerting and analytics (AppDynamics Logstash Splunk etc.)
• Handson knowledge of build automation and continuous integration/delivery ecosystem: Git Groovy Maven/Gradle Docker Nexus Artifactory Selenium Jenkins Docker Openshift.
• Experience with infrastructure configuration automation processes and tools: Terraform Puppet Ansible.
• Experience deploying and troubleshooting highly available secure and reliable services with automatic failover using containers and containerorchestration tools like Kubernetes/Openshift.
• Experience with issues facing largescale server environments.
• Experience with Linux management tools such as automated provisioning (ansible puppet razor) containers (docker) and virtualization (VMware KVM).
• Experience in Scripting (shell python Go)
• Skills for monitoring and automation.
• Experience working with automation and CI/CD implementation for microservices architecture.
• Handson experience in designing and building solutions that allow multicloud environments.
• Must have broad expertise or unique knowledge in one or more of these areas based on the area of hiring:
  • 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 JiraAgile Confluence VRACodeStream 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
  • Recommended: (Will be valued if available) Professional Certification in DevOps DevOps related Tools Systems Administration Networking Cloud Agile SAFe etc

Leadership Role: No