Senior Systems Engineer

Senior DevOps Engineer, Core42, Abu Dhabi - UAE

About Us

Core42, a leader in AI-powered cloud and digital infrastructure, is driving transformative technology solutions globally. Leveraging advanced resources and partnerships, Core42 empowers clients to harness sovereign AI infrastructure, especially in sectors with stringent regulatory needs. With a mission to redefine digital transformation, we combine sovereign capabilities with scalable, high-performance compute infrastructure, positioning itself at the forefront of AI innovation in the Middle East and beyond.

The Opportunity

Senior DevOps Engineer designs, provisions and manages scalable infrastructure, diverse applications, and automation tools to ensure seamless delivery of features and services across various projects and platforms. Senior DevOps Engineer collaborates with development teams and other stakeholders to ensure safe and efficient deployment of applications, identify, and implement technical solutions for optimizing system reliability and performance.

Your key responsibilities

• Mentor and develop capabilities of DevOps engineers, participate in strategic project initiatives and planning, contribute to decision-making processes.
• Collaborate with software and platform engineering teams on designing and implementing technology stack to ensure safe and efficient deployment of application.
• Design, implement and manage infrastructure as code (IaC) to ensure scalability and flexibility.
• Deploy applications using continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to ensure a smooth and end-to-end automated process.
• Regularly evaluate and adjust CI/CD principles and service maturity and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Monitor performance indicators and recommend enhancements by performing gap analysis, identifying alternative solutions, offer actionable improvement plans and assisting with modifications.
• Collaborate with security management teams to ensure that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats.
• Write and maintain relevant documentation ensuring completeness and quality
• Work closely with process management and operational teams and contribute to process development standardizing collaboration framework and improving collaboration efficiency.
• Act as an advisor to internal DevOps and engineering team stakeholders, contributing to technology roadmaps and architectural decisions.
  
  

Required Skills/qualifications

What we're looking for

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Software Engineering, or other relevant technology field.
• Proven experience as a Senior DevOps Engineer with a strong focus on Cloud Environments.
• Good knowledge and 5+ years of hands-on experience working with Azure and AWS [professional level certifications are highly desirable].
• 7+ years of hands-on experience in Linux-based environments and 5+ years of experience in DevOps engineering.
• Advanced experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools like Terraform, Ansible, etc.
• Deep understanding of the software development life cycle (SDLC) and CI/CD pipelines, including GitLab CI/CD, as well as experience with GitOps practices, such as version control system management and continuous deployment strategies specific to Git-centric workflows.
• Advanced level in programming and scripting using Python and/or Golang, bash.
• Advanced level of proficiency with container technologies and Kubernetes in particular is a must.
• Good grasp of modern logging and monitoring tools such as Loki, Prometheus, Grafana etc
• Deep understanding of web-related technologies [protocols, web/app servers] as well as good understanding of commonly used network stacks and protocols [OSI model, TCP/IP stack, routing]
• Good knowledge of solutions and hands-on experience with at least one product of the following domains: database engines (SQL and/or non-SQL), middleware, clustering and high-availability strategies, performance testing and tuning, messaging systems like RabbitMQ and Kafka, caching systems like Redis and Memcached
• Should possess effective communication skills and agile mentality and mindset.
• Extensive experience in leading and executing end-to-end DevOps strategies, demonstrating a strong capability to drive project initiatives and mentor DevOps engineers