At Emirates Group our Analytics Centre of Excellence (ACoE) is a centralized unit that provides data and analytics support to Emirates Group businesses. This allows our businesses to make better decisions by using data and analytics to understand our customers, operations, and spanets. The ACoE is an essential part of Emirates Groups digital transformation strategy. The unit is helping Emirates Group to become a more data-driven organization and to make better decisions by using data and analytics.

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 a 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.

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

Qualifications:

Degree or Honours (12+3 or equivalent) in a relevant field such as Computer Science, Computational Mathematics, Computer, Engineering or Software Engineering.

Experience:

5+ years experience Information Technology/other in DevOps implementation and/or Cloud Computing/Migration (AWS, Azure, VMware, GCP) and Systems Administration.

Knowledge/Skills:

- At least 4+ years of experience in enterprise level IT projects Cloud based technologies (PaaS, IaaS, and Cloud Infrastructure Services).

- Extensive Experience in architecture and support best practices in Hybrid cloud environment or Amazon AWS/Azure Cloud.

- Exceptional knowledge in systems monitoring, alerting and analytics (AppDynamics, Logstash, Splunk, etc.)

- Hands on knowledge of build automation and continuous integration/delivery ecosystem: Git, Groovy, Maven/Gradle, Docker, Nexus, Artifactory, Selenium, Jenkins, Docker, Open shift.

- Experience with infrastructure configuration and automations 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/Open shift.

- Experience with issues facing large scale server environments.

- Experience with Linux management tools such as automated provisioning (ansible, puppet, and razor), containers (docker), virtualization (VMware, KVM).

- Experience in Scripting (shell, python, Go).

- Skills for monitoring and automation.

- Experience working with automation and CI/CD implementation for micro services architecture.

- Hands-on experience on designing and building solutions that allow multi cloud environments.

Observability:

- Expertise and experience in developing, operating and troubleshooting Splunk and AppD platforms at scale.

- Ability to write complex queries in PL/SQL and Splunk Processing Language or any industry standard query language.

- Well-versed with data analysis, mathematical model to identify anomalies or outliers.

Container Management Platforms:

- Expertise and experience in developing, operating and troubleshooting Kubernetes clusters at scale.

- Expertise and experience in developing, operating and troubleshooting cloud-managed container management platform at scale

Content Delivery Network:

- Deep knowledge in the TCP/IP protocol.

- Expertise and experience in troubleshooting complex network topologies.

- Expertise and experience in design, develop and operate DNS infrastructure.

- Expertise and experience in design, develop and operate Content and Application Delivery network (i.e.: Akamai).

- Expertise and experience in design, develop and operate content and application caching solutions.

- Performance optimizations and traffic analytics skills.

- Must have broad understanding and exceptional expertise in one or more of these areas, based on business need

Technology Domain Key Technologies:

- Clouds, Infrastructure Managers and Container Engines : Kubernetes, Docker, Openshift, AWS, VMWare, OpenStack, OpenShift, Helm, Azure, GCP.

- CI/CD : Jenkins, GIT, Jmeter, Gatling, Docker, Openshift, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Jira-Agile, Confluence, VRA-CodeStream, Azure Devops, AWS Devops, maven, gradle.

- Scripting : Go (Golang), Shell (Bash), Python, Ruby, JSON, YAML.

- Operating System: Linux (RedHat, CentOS) and Windows.

- Monitoring and logging : Grafana, ELK, AppDynamics, 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 on DevOps, DevOps related Tools, Systems Administration, Cloud, Networking, Agile, SAFe, etc.

- Published Blogs, Articles, contributions to OpenForums.

- Representation in Technical forums.

At Emirates, were committed to providing our employees with opportunities to grow and develop in their careers. so if youre looking for a challenging and rewarding opportunity, apply today and join our team!

-A competitive salary, paid tax-free and reviewed annually

-39 calendar days annual leave, plus public holidays

-Full relocation package, including flights, shipping and optional hotel accommodation on arrival

-Annual leave travel - return tickets home each year

-Private medical insurance

-Discounts on airline tickets for EK and partner networks

-Travel benefits and discounts for friends & family

-Education Support Allowance for children’s education in Dubai or abroad

-A Product community committed to you, with mentor programmes, growth & development support along with regular social gatherings