Senior Technical DevOps Engineer - GenAI And iXR

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

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. Join us in cosmopolitan Dubai as a senior DevOps engineer and make your mark on the aviation world.

Your expertise will help us streamline operations, reduce time-to-market, and continuously improve our processes. If you are passionate about leveraging the latest DevOps tools and methodologies to drive innovation and excellence, we invite you to apply to play a crucial role in shaping the future of our technology initiatives at 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 CICD pipelines for code deployment, integration of test automation, code quality telemetry, and orchestration for automated build and release of software.
• Configure and tailor build 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 cloud shared services landing zones.
• Build and deploy Docker containers to break up monolithic applications 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 reliability of solutions. Be well versed with key container orchestration technologies and containerization principles and work guided by senior technical engineers 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 to the analysis of technical application requirements.
• Troubleshoot issues, fix defects that are moderate to high complexity, and carry out testing independently.
• Shadow senior technical engineers and principal engineers to design and architect components and collaborate with members of the cross-functional team to identify areas of inefficiency and propose improvements.
• Apply site reliability principles to ensure availability, latency, performance, efficiency, change management, monitoring, emergency response, and capacity planning. Act as a bridge between development and operations by applying an engineering mindset to system administration.

Qualification

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

• Degree in computer science, engineering, or an equivalent IT-related discipline.
• Three years information technology experience.
• 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 environments or Amazon AWS, Azure.
• Cloud knowledge in systems monitoring, alerting, and analytics such as AppDynamics, Logstash, Splunk, etc.
• Hands-on knowledge of build automation and continuous integration/delivery ecosystem: Git, Groovy, Maven/Gradle, Docker, Nexus, Artifactory, Selenium, Jenkins, OpenShift.
• Experience with infrastructure configuration and automation 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), 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.
• Hands-on experience in 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, Jira/Agile, Confluence, vRA/CodeStream, Azure DevOps, AWS DevOps, Maven, Gradle, Zalenium Grid
• Scripting: Go, Golang, Shell, Bash/KSH, Python, Ruby, JSON, YAML
• Operating systems: Linux, RedHat, CentOS, and Windows
• Monitoring and logging: Grafana, ELK, AppDynamics, Dynatrace, Splunk, Zabbix, Prometheus, Fluentd
• Provisioning, config management, and automation tools: Terraform, AWS Cloud Formation, AWS CDK, Azure ARM, Packer, Ansible, Puppet

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 is like to live and work in our fast-paced, cosmopolitan home city.

About the Company

A fast-growing international airline with one of the youngest fleets in the sky and more than 400 awards for excellence worldwide.

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