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Kubernetes Platform Engineer

Oivan Group Oy

Job Location:

Dubai - UAE

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer

Posted: 15 October 2026 (4 hours ago)

Application Deadline: 12 January 2027

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

What We Need

Oivan is looking for an experienced Senior Kubernetes Platform Engineer to join our team in theUAE. You will build operate and troubleshoot enterprise Kubernetes platformsincluding GPU-enabled clusters for AI/ML workloads. This role requires strong expertise in:

Hands-on Kubernetes operations with strong troubleshooting and root-cause investigationskills
SUSE Rancher Manager setup operations and multi-cluster management
NVIDIA GPU Operator deployment and operations on top of RKE2
Automation through CI/CD pipelines and GitOps-based delivery
Istio service mesh

Hands-on experience with RKE2 Rancher and SUSE Virtualization is a very strong plus. Candidateswithout it must at least understand what these products are and their core concepts.

What Youll Do

Key Responsibilities

We offer you the unique opportunity to apply and develop your skills with a diverse andgeographically distributed technology team. You will play a key role in building and runningKubernetes platforms that host mission-critical and GPU-accelerated workloads.

The following are the main duties you will do as part of this job:

Install configure and operate production Kubernetes clusters primarily RKE2across on-premise air-gapped and hybrid environments
Set up and operate SUSE Rancher Manager in high availability: installation upgradesbackup and restore authentication and RBAC and provisioning or importing downstreamclusters
Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Infrastructure as Code(Terraform and Ansible)
Troubleshoot and investigate platform issues end to end (nodes pods CNI networkingDNS ingress storage certificates etcd and the control plane) and drive root-causeanalysis to closure
Set up and operate SUSE Rancher Manager in high availability: installation upgradesbackup and restore authentication and RBAC and provisioning or importing downstreamclusters
Deploy and operate the NVIDIA GPU Operator on RKE2 including driver and containertoolkit configuration for RKE2s embedded containerd the device plugin GPU FeatureDiscovery and DCGM monitoring
Configure GPU sharing (MIG and time-slicing) and support the scheduling and operation ofAI/ML workloads on GPU nodes
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GitLab CI Jenkins GitHub Actions) for applicationand platform delivery
Implement GitOps with Rancher Fleet Argo CD or Flux keeping Git as the single source oftruth for cluster configuration and deployments
Package and manage workloads with Helm and Kustomize
Deploy and operate Istio: traffic management ingress and egress gateways mTLS andauthorization policies and mesh troubleshooting
Operate SUSE Virtualization (Harvester) to run VM workloads alongside containers and tohost RKE2 guest clusters
Implement monitoring logging and alerting with Prometheus Grafana and RancherMonitoring and Logging
Harden clusters using CIS benchmarks (including the RKE2 CIS profile) Pod SecurityAdmission network policies and secrets management
Plan and execute Kubernetes RKE2 and Rancher upgrades with minimal downtime
Design and test backup and disaster recovery including etcd snapshots Rancher backupsand workload backup (e.g. Velero)
Create and maintain runbooks playbooks and platform documentation
Conduct knowledge transfer and training sessions for customer and internal teams
Work closely with customer stakeholders in on-site engagements

What You Have

Qualifications & Skills

Our ideal candidate will fulfill the following requirements:

5 years of hands-on experience in IT with3 years administering Kubernetes inproduction
Strong Kubernetes troubleshooting and investigation skills:
- Systematic debugging with kubectl events logs crictl and node-level tools
- Diagnosing networking DNS storage scheduling certificate and control-planeissues
- Root-cause analysis and clear incident write-ups
Hands-on experience with Rancher Manager setup and day-2 operations
Experience deploying and operating the NVIDIA GPU Operator ideally on RKE2
Automation with CI/CD and GitOps:
- GitLab CI Jenkins or GitHub Actions
- Fleet Argo CD or Flux
- Helm and Kustomize
Hands-on experience with Istio service mesh
Infrastructure as Code: Terraform and Ansible
Strong Linux administration (SLES / SLE Micro RHEL or Ubuntu) and networkingfundamentals (TCP/IP DNS load balancing TLS)
Monitoring and observability: Prometheus Grafana and centralized logging
Strong Bash scripting; Python or Go is a plus
Bachelors degree in Computer Engineering Computer Science Engineering or a relatedfield
Strong experience working in on-premise enterprise environments including air-gappedsetups
Ability to work independently in customer-facing roles
English (advanced); Arabic language skills are a strong advantage

Very strong plus: RKE2 Rancher and SUSE Virtualization

Hands-on production experience with these products will strongly differentiate a candidate.Candidates without it must at a minimum be able to explain:

RKE2:SUSEs security-focused CNCF-certified Kubernetes distribution; server and agentnodes embedded containerd etcd configuration through CIS-hardeneddefaults and air-gapped installation
Rancher:multi-cluster management; the Rancher Manager (local) cluster versusdownstream clusters cluster agents projects and RBAC Fleet and the app catalog
SUSE Virtualization (Harvester):hyperconverged infrastructure built on Kubernetes usingKubeVirt for virtual machines and Longhorn for storage managed from Rancher

Desirable