At Emirates, we believe in connecting the world, to and through, our global hub in Dubai; and in constantly innovating to ensure our customers ‘Fly Better’. Emirates Group IT thrives on the dynamic nature of technology. Being pioneers in aviation innovation, were always at the forefront, pushing boundaries. Were on the lookout for exceptional IT professionals to fortify our position as leaders in the industry. Embark on a journey with the world’s largest international airline and become a vital part of our cutting-edge information and technology team as a Principal DevOps Engineer.
As a Principal DevOps Engineer in the DevOps Platform team, you will be responsible for driving the Enterprise wide DevOps, Automation and Cloud strategies, standards and guidelines to ensure service reliability, scalability and performance of Applications of Emirates Group landscape. You will leverage emerging technologies to build self-healing and scalable applications and environments, architecting migration to cloud to improve fault tolerance, reduce failure rates and optimise TCO across the entire infrastructure stack, expanding its monitoring capabilities, and improving overall management of technical operations.
Join our DevOps and Automation team as a key technologist, driving DevOps and automation practices at both the product and program levels. In this pivotal role, you will be instrumental in designing, implementing, and optimizing our DevOps strategies to enhance efficiency, scalability, and reliability across our technology landscape. Your expertise will help us streamline operations, reduce time-to-market, and continuously improve our processes. If you are passionate about leveraging the latest DevOps tools and methodologies to drive innovation and excellence, we invite you to apply to play a crucial role in shaping the future of our technology initiatives at Emirates Group.
In this role you will:
- Manage, set up, configure, monitor and technology platforms, tools and libraries for enterprise software, in line with the approved technology architecture.
- Champion automation, agile testing practices, lean software development, test driven development, timely root cause analysis and blameless incident post-mortems. Help define and refine the DevOps and Cloud engineering playbooks for use by relevant people in Technology.
- Lead the execution of the DevOps and Tooling adoption to migrate existing system landscape using CI/CD best practices with full zero touch automation and come up with high level design, partnering with cross-functional teams. Drive proof-of-concepts and implementing prototypes to validate ideas.
- Lead the discovery phase of Cloud adoption/ migration by partnering with the Architects and Security to strategies well defined DevOps and Cloud engineering architectures and 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Investigate, debug and fix complex issues involving corner cases and rare conditions. Drive built in quality in engineering teams in collaboration with end to end quality assurance.
- Technical stewardship around Cloud, Infrastructure as Code, Operational deployment and Service reliability. Use expert knowledge of the technical stack and design principles for the components in the technology area to solve complex business issues. Represent hybrid and public cloud and DevOps Automation in cross business area initiatives.
- Mentor and coach junior engineers on CI/CD and guide them on automating complex cases. Teach and help developers test their code better and influence developers to write tests and review their work.
- Develop tools and practices to improve delivery quality of technology solutions and productivity of engineers. Develop optimal technical design and high-quality code for technology products that passes the QA requirements and is production deployment ready. Carry out functional, non-functional and performance testing in using appropriate automation tools.
