Senior Technical DevOps Engineer

Job description / Role

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 world’s largest international airline and become a vital part of our cutting-edge information and technology team as a senior technical DevOps engineer - container platform - Emiratisation.

The senior technical DevOps engineer - container platform - Emiratisation will act as a key technologist in the DevOps and automation team, drive DevOps and automation practices at product and program level. Engineers enterprise level technology solutions for CI/CD and cloud automation through infrastructure as code, containerisation and configure management. Ensure robust cloud engineering and DevOps practices for solution planning, technology development, deployment, release, hyper-care and operations of technology solution. 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.

In this role, you will:

• Lead the discovery phase of cloud adoption/migration by partnering with the architects and security to strategize well defined DevOps and cloud engineering architectures.
• Lead the automation of change management, building resiliency, monitoring, capacity planning and emergency response for set of products that you are responsible for.
• Act as a lead for service reliability, scalability and performance for a set of products as part of system enablement team for Agile release trains. Primary lead who identifies and improves the lifecycle of products/services by addressing flow of value through the continuous deployment pipelines.
• Review deployment and operational environments, i.e., execute initiatives to reduce failure, troubleshoot issues across the entire infrastructure stack, expand monitoring capabilities, and manage technical operations.
• Collaborate with release engineering, product development and security teams to develop change management strategies e.g. canary-style deployments, pushing out new releases without interrupting services, and rolling back features that demonstrate problems.
• Enable automation of everything possible and ensure continuous deployment pipeline is always in good health and is responsible for the technical design and high-quality coding for technology products with built in quality and production deployment ready.
• Build, maintain and operate technical environments for software development, continuous integration and continuous deployment based on cloud application design principles such as 12 factor apps.
• Embrace DevSecOps principles to advise and architect security solutions with engineering and product teams, ensuring all technologies and projects are robust and adhere to security standards.
• Be an advisor to enable the teams to drive corrective, adaptive, preventative and perfective maintenance of solutions automating environment management, service management, infrastructure management and cyber security aspects of the systems.
• 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 this role, you must meet the below requirements:

• Degree or honours (12+3 or equivalent) in a relevant field such as computer science, computational mathematics, computer, engineering or software engineering.
• 5+ years of experience in OpenShift, Kubernetes, EKS, AKS, Linux, Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD, GitOps, Helm, container security, and cloud technologies.

Knowledge/skills:

• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes and container platforms.
• Experience deploying, configuring, and managing Red Hat OpenShift, Amazon EKS, and Microsoft AKS.
• Strong understanding of Kubernetes architecture, workloads, networking, storage, services, ingress, RBAC, ConfigMaps, secrets, and namespaces.
• Experience with Docker/OCI containers, container registries, Helm, and Kubernetes operators.
• Strong knowledge of Terraform and infrastructure as code (IaC) for automated platform provisioning.
• Experience with Ansible, Bash and/or Python scripting for configuration and operational automation.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD and GitOps, using tools such as Git, GitLab, Jenkins, and Argo CD.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes and cloud security, including RBAC, secrets management, vulnerability scanning, image security, and policy enforcement.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools, including Dynatrace and Splunk, with the ability to troubleshoot complex platform issues.
• Understanding of platform reliability, scalability, performance, high availability, backup, disaster recovery, security, and compliance.

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.

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.