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Kubernetes Engineer – Rancher RKE2
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Posted:
30 October 2026 (1 hour ago)
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Application Deadline:
27 January 2027
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Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
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Job Summary
What We Need
Oivan is looking for an Intermediate Kubernetes Engineer to join our team in Dubai. You will provideon-site operational support for enterprise Kubernetes platforms built on SUSE Rancher and RKE2keep day-to-day operations running smoothly and help the customers team become confident inusing and operating Rancher. This role requires:
- Strong practical hands-on experience with Rancher and RKE2
- On-site operational support and day-to-day platform activities
- Solid Kubernetes troubleshooting and issue resolution skills
- Knowledge transfer and technical guidance to the team on Rancher usage and operations
What Youll Do
We offer you the opportunity to apply and grow your skills with a diverse and geographicallydistributed technology team working directly with customers on mission-critical Kubernetesplatforms.
The following are the main duties you will do as part of this job:
The following are the main duties you will do as part of this job:
- Provide on-site operational support for Rancher-managed RKE2 clusters at the customerspremises
- Carry out day-to-day operations: cluster health checks node and workload managementnamespace and project administration and user access through Rancher RBAC
- Troubleshoot and resolve platform issues (nodes pods networking DNS ingress storageand certificates) and escalate with clear findings when needed
- Operate Rancher Manager: managing downstream clusters projects users and roles theapp catalog and Helm-based deployments
- Support RKE2 cluster installation configuration scaling and routine maintenance includingon-premise and air-gapped environments
- Assist with planned Kubernetes RKE2 and Rancher upgrades and with etcd snapshots andRancher backup and restore
- Monitor platforms using Rancher Monitoring (Prometheus and Grafana) and logging andrespond to alerts and incidents
- Apply security baselines such as the RKE2 CIS profile Pod Security Admission and networkpolicies
- Deliver knowledge transfer hands-on walkthroughs and technical guidance to customerand internal teams on Rancher usage and operations
- Create and maintain runbooks operational procedures and platform documentation
- Work closely with customer stakeholders and the wider Oivan and SUSE teams
What You Have
Qualifications & Skills
Our ideal candidate will fulfill the following requirements:
Our ideal candidate will fulfill the following requirements:
- 3 years of hands-on experience in IT with 2 years operating Kubernetes in production
- Strong practical experience with Rancher and RKE2:
- Rancher Manager day-2 operations: downstream clusters projects RBAC catalogand apps
- RKE2 server and agent nodes embedded containerd etcd and air-gapped installation
- Solid Kubernetes troubleshooting skills:
- Debugging with kubectl events logs crictl and node-level tools
- Diagnosing networking DNS storage scheduling and certificate issues
- Working knowledge of Helm; exposure to GitOps (Rancher Fleet Argo CD or Flux) is a plus
- Good Linux administration (SLES / SLE Micro RHEL or Ubuntu) and networkingfundamentals (TCP/IP DNS load balancing TLS)
- Familiarity with Prometheus Grafana and centralized logging
- Bash scripting; Ansible or Terraform is a plus
- Ability to explain technical topics clearly and coach others (knowledge transfer trainingdocumentation)
- Experience working on-site in on-premise enterprise environments
- Bachelors degree in Computer Engineering Computer Science Engineering or a relatedfield
- English (advanced); Arabic language skills are an advantage
- SUSE Virtualization (Harvester) SUSE Storage (Longhorn) and SUSE Security (NeuVector)
- CNI knowledge: Canal Calico or Cilium
- Private registries and air-gapped image management (e.g. Harbor)
- Backup tooling such as Velero
- Exposure to CI/CD tooling (GitLab CI Jenkins or GitHub Actions)
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
- SUSE Rancher certification (Administrator or Deployment Specialist)
- Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
Required Experience:
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