Job Description

Job Summary
Drive DevOps implementation and Tooling practices in Emirates Group IT and it's subsidiaries, to deliver significant business, operational and cultural benefits, by creating a solid DevOps foundation and Platform Service layer for all users to consume. Contributes to and implements the strategic direction of digital enablement of the Group through the automation of software development and deployment lifecycle to deliver speed to market, efficiency and quality resulting in higher value to customers. Provides the tools, technologies and platforms to enable agile release trains to adopt Cloud, application modularisation, micro-services, to build in quality and world class engineering practices, bringing developers and operations practices closer together. Enables implementation and adoption of DevOps practices that ensures appropriate level of tooling for services by implementing and continually improving data-informed production feedback loops to balance availability, performance, and agility.
Job Outline

• Creates and drives the execution of the DevOps and Tooling adoption roadmap to rapidly migrate the existing system landscape utilizing CI/CD best practices with full zero touch automation. Establishes mission and purpose for core DevOps copiability, site reliability and cloud engineers to implement CI/CD and release on demand practices.
• Plays an active role in being a servant leader that promotes bringing in the cultural mind shift and transformation in Emirates Group IT to build confidence to fail fast and fail often keeping the end consumer in mind.
• Provide a self-service portal for end users to consume services, including automated deployments, server provisioning, security and functional testing, complete CI/CD pipeline.
• Have a strategic and corporate view of new tooling required to provide cutting edge services to end users enabling improved time to market for service delivery.
• Focal point in ensuring emerging trends and technologies related to DevOps, and best practices are continuously brought into Emirates Group IT for continuous improvement, in addition to managing technology suppliers for DevOps tools and platform development, global centers of excellence and distributed scaled agile practices. Lead, coach, and mentor a team of DevOps and Tooling professionals, providing servant leadership and providing continuous feedback and facilitating professional development.
• Enable the migration of existing on-premise services to on-cloud services in collaboration with the hybrid cloud team to achieve cost efficiency, improved quality, a more productive engineering workforce and faster project delivery, by providing landing zones, right platforms and technologies. Provide tooling that enables Enterprise wide visibility of the health of CI/CD pipelines, automation of telemetry, dashboards and analytics to report on adoption of DevOps, the health trends and business outcomes such as deployment frequency and improvements to quality, at Agile release train and Solution domain level.
• Tailor platforms services for Team and agile release trains, through participation in Programme Increment Planning, System Demo and Solution Demos for DevOps, Cloud and SRE adoption runaways. Enable autonomous teams to deliver based on this high-level context. Tailor telemetry that contribute to enterprise level metrics. Build productive relationships with Architecture, Delivery, Product Management, Engineering, Quality Assurance and other stakeholders to enable collaboration at scale and effective resolution of any impediments encountered by the autonomous teams.
• Develop and grow the DevOps Product and Platform team by setting goals and objectives, conducting performance reviews, coach, mentor leadership, and build a high performing team and support/engages in hiring, retention, training, team engagement events and activities. Listen to and support teams for problem solving and root cause analysis. Provide freedom and safety so that team are able to innovate, experiment and even fail on occasions.

Qualifications & Experience
Information Technology. Other: 10+ Years
Degree or Honours (12+3 or equivalent)
Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field. Master's degree is preferable. Experience of designing, building and maintaining mission-critical and complex, scalable and software solutions.

• Hands on experience in building and maintaining DevOps platforms, with proven track record of leading a team to transform the efforts of a large-scale engineering organization in digital, data and enterprise domains.
• Minimum of 5 years of relevant management/supervisory experience, managing teams of DevOps/software engineering professionals in a large solution domain.
• 5+ years software engineering at scale with experience in Cloud adoption.
• 8+ years hands on knowledge of software development and application support.
• 3+ years of Scaled Agile methodology, with modern flexible working practices.

Knowledge/skills

• Thorough knowledge of the technology stacks used for business solutions.
• Exceptional technical knowledge of Cloud Platforms (such as Azure, AWS, Google, VRA), Databases (such as Oracle, Mongo, Postgres, MySQL, CouchBase), Secrets Management (such as HashiCorp Vault), Containerization (such as Docker, OpenShift, Kubernetes), Monitoring (such as AppDynamics, Splunk), CI/CD (such as Jenkins, SonarQube, Jmeter, Nomad), Infrastructure provisioning tools (such as Puppet, Ansible, Packer, Terraform, Shell Scripting) Logging (Splunk/Kibana/ElasticSearch).
• Ability to think outside the box to solve complex technical issues. Use professional concepts and company objectives to solve complex issues.
• Research industry innovations and best practices. Apply appropriately in the solution domain.
• Partnering with technical and business leaders across the organization to drive value from the technology solutions.
• Identify and remove waste in the software development lifecycle to improve flow, throughput, productivity and quality.
• Managing technology suppliers for complex solution development, global centers of excellence and distributed scaled agile practices.

Leadership Role: Yes
Salary & Benefits
Join us in a management role and enjoy an attractive tax-free salary. On top of our generous travel benefits, including discounted flights and hotel stays around the world, this managerial role also has an excellent leave and healthcare package. That's on top of transport benefits, life insurance and more.

Skills Required