Job Description

Overview:

Technology Engineer - DevOps IaaS Linux for Banking Project

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

Linux operating system

. The ideal candidate is also expected to automate the requirements of the platform in infrastructure as code way and take accountability of the end to end solution.

The role is 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. 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.
Responsibilities:

Key Results



Performance Measures



Main Tasks



1. Standardized stack of products across Emirates NBD Datacenters that should meet the different workload requirements.



a. Percentage of Compliance with Group IT Technology Stack.
b. Reduction of Non-Standardized products in the environment.Drive projects to move the non-compliant products into the standard stack. Automate the installation and configuration of standard stack items. Perform code review of peers.

2. Well defined and actionable Strategy, Roadmap and Backlog for the Standard Technology Stack.

a. Product Strategy and Roadmap.
b. Progress on the Backlog actions within sprints.Establish the product backlog that require to be addressed on 2 week sprints. Drive backlog projects to completion with infrastructure as code approach.

3. Lower the product TCO by driving efficiency and looking for innovative alternatives.

a. Annual decrease in the product TCO.Continuous R&D and vendor engagement. Automate the installation to achieve Zero touch unattended deployment. Review all housekeeping activities and identify key processes that should be automated. Introduce Open Source technologies into standard technology stack

4. Operational Stability

a. Annual reduction of business impacting incidentsDesign solutions that caters for enhancing the operational stability. Address Problem tickets, Risk and Audit items in the products backlog.


Essential skills:

Knowledge in Linux internals (Preferable RHEL / Ubuntu)
Knowledge in Windows internals
Comprehensive understanding in DevOps / SRE, IaC and 12 Factor Principles
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)
Strong understanding of Repository and Artifact management Tools (Red Hat Satellite, Spacewalk, Nexus)
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
Excellent Scripting in


Groovy (writing Jenkins Files)


Bash / Powershell


Python
GITOPS driven configuration management and deployment


Desired skills:

Agile methodologies and its ceremonies
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.
Solve occurring problems and create solutions and automation to prevent them from happen again.
Experience:

At least 10 years of experience at a relevant Technical position in large organizations with hands on automation knowledge
Banking background