Black Pearl Looking for Senior Technology Engineer – Red Hat Certified at Dubai Full Time

A large organization is currently looking for a Senior Technology Engineer Red Hat Certified who play a key role in driving the engineering function within the company for the technologies he/she is responsible for. While managing the day to day operational activities , you will be accountable for the overall delivery activities such as Design, Development, Implementation, Standardization, Automation and Capacity Planning. You will be expected to have a T-shaped technical profile to be able to switch between multiple disciplines based on the project requirement where your core strength is coming from Vmware Virtualization Platform. You are also expected to automate the requirements of the platform in infrastructure as code way and take accountability of the end to end solution. Furthermore, you are expected to have discussions with Technical and Solution Architects to find optimal solution to a problem and implement it based on the infrastructure and project requirements. Also you are encouraged not only use but also contribute into open source technologies wherever it is applicable while maintaining interoperability and functionality of the infrastructure. You will be expected to do deep dive into various technologies and explore the capabilities to leverage.

Other responsibilities will include:

• Solve occurring problems and create solutions and automation to prevent them from happen again.
• Plan for reliability for systems to work across multi datacenter/environment and handle the outages.
• Support on call if needed on:
• Conceptual understanding about infrastructure and how it works,
• DNS (Authoritive and Non-Authoritive DNS, Dynamic and bind DNS, Forwarder)
• SSL Communication (Handshake of SSL traffic, Cipher Suites, Enc Algorithyms,)
• Active Directory (Security OUs, policies)
• Certificates (SAN, client-authentication, keystores, mutual ssl)
• Loadbalancers / Site Selectors / Firewall
• Vault Tools (Cyberark / Hashicorp)
• High Availability

Requirements

To be considered for this role, you need to meet the following criteria:

• Bachelors of Computer Science or Equivalent
• Red Hat Certified Architect or Equivalent
• At least 10 years of experience at a relevant Technical position in large organizations with hands on automation knowledge
• Banking background
• Knowledge in Linux internals (Preferable RHEL / Ubuntu)
• Knowledge in Windows internals
• Excellent hands on experience in configuration management, orchestration and IaC tools (Ansible, Jenkins, Terraform)
• Strong understanding of Virtualization Technologies (KVM / Libvirt / oVirt / KubeVirt. OVM, Openstack)
• Comprehensive understanding in DevOps / SRE, IaC and 12 Factor Principles
• Strong understanding of Software Defined Storage Technologies (CEPH, GlusterFS)
• Strong understanding of Repository and Artifact management Tools (Red Hat Satellite, Spacewalk, Nexus)
• Strong understanding of Container Technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, Openshift)
• Knowledge about API communications (Rest/Soap), developing a new consumer/publisher for any API
• Strong understanding of OS Compliance Policies (CIS Benchmark)
• Agile methodologies and its ceremonies
• Strong understanding of ELK and its beats (Auditbeat, FileBeat)
• Excellent Scripting in Groovy (writing Jenkins Files), Bash / Powershell , Python
• Architect, write and implement software that improves the stability, scalability, availability of products
• Own multiple services and have the authonomy to do what suits the business and our customers in IT.
• GITOPS driven configuration management and deployment
• Familiar and openminded to Opensource technologies
• Strong understanding of troubleshooting. Deep dive to an issue, read logs, track the clues and identify the problems.
• Security Awareness

Candidates based outside UAE are welcome to apply!

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