Senior Platform Owner – Elastic Compute/ Infrastructure Architect/ Infrastructure Manager

Tandem Search

Dubai, UAE

Ref: KP709-2774

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

A leading bank in UAE is looking to hire a Sr. Platform Owner – Elastic Compute. The Elastic compute platforms will be hosting majority of the mission critical workload; thus, increasing the focus of establishing a solid evolving set of products. This role will focus on the cloud management platforms, application runtimes, X86 HW, Storage and Backup products, GNU/Linux operating systems and will resume the end to end responsibility of the products ownership across the Group.

This role will be accountable for the overall platform operational stability and will lead the products engineering strategy and lifecycle. It will be also required to be up to date with the relevant product releases and continuously conduct research and development to carefully select the features that will require to be in the relevant products backlog.

The Role will also play a key role in establishing, maintaining and enforcing standards that will ensure the platforms stability and quick provisioning; allowing agile delivery for all projects.

Responsibilities:

- Establish a standard set of products that caters for different workloads.
- Continuous update of the Group IT product catalogue with the approved stack.
- Enforce a standard build and housekeeping checklists: this will simplify the environment and drive cost down.
- Sponsor and drive projects to move the non-compliant products into the standard stack.
- Build the products Strategy and Roadmap.
- Establish the product backlog that require to be addressed on quarterly basis.
- Design solutions that caters for enhancing the operational stability.
- Address Problem tickets, Risk and Audit items in the products backlog.
- Take the lead in working with the relevant stakeholders to finalize the relevant products decisions.
- Develop PDPs for the staff.
- Provide technical guidance.

Requirements

Requirement:

- Excellent technical knowledge in VMware, KVM or OVM hypervisors
- Excellent technical knowledge in private cloud platforms such as Openstack, Cloudstack or Mesos
- Excellent technical knowledge in RHEL or Ubuntu
- Strong technical knowledge in Container Orchestration
- Excellent knowledge in Software Defined Storage products such as CEPH, GlusterFS
- Good knowledge in different X86 HW and Hyper-converged platforms
- Good knowledge in Backup software such as Veritas or Networker
- Strong knowledge in EMC Storage technologies
- Good knowledge in application runtimes (Jboss, Apache, Tomcat, Nginx)
- Good knowledge in product licensing and contract management
- Strong people and leadership management skills with proven ability to lead, motivate, inspire, develop, and encourage people.
- Remarkable amount of experience in agile way of working
- Strategic Thinking with Research and Development mindset.

About the Company

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At Tandem, we’ve built a vast network of top-tier professionals across the globe. We empower businesses to thrive by delivering unmatched talent solutions. With our global reach, collaborative approach, and unwavering commitment to excellence, we drive transformative growth and shape exceptional teams.

Who we are.

We are a team of industry experts, driven by a passion for innovation and excellence. We are dedicated to providing unique talent solutions and nurturing collaborative partnerships that redefine success.

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