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Job description / Role
One of the largest banks in the Middle East is looking for Senior Technology Engineer - Virtualization to be based onsite in Dubai, UAE for 12 months renewable contract.
Your Responsibilities:
• 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.
• Establish the product backlog that require to be addressed on 2 week sprints.
• Drive backlog projects to completion with infrastructure as code approach.
• 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
• Design solutions that caters for enhancing the operational stability.
• Address Problem tickets, Risk and Audit items in the products backlog.
Requirements
Your Qualifications
Essential experience:
• Candidate must be already based in UAE.
• Depth knowledge and Strong Understanding in Virtualization Platforms (Must Vmware / OVM – Preferable KVM / Libvirt / oVirt / KubeVirt, Openstack)
• Hands on experience on Physical x86 servers (Must HPE and Lenovo), Infrastructure Management Tools (HPE OneView and Lenovo Xclarity), Chassis and hardware components
• Depth knowledge and Strong understanding in Hyper converged systems and Storage Virtualization (Must VxRail / VSAN)
• Strong understanding and knowledge on Virtualization Networking especially NSX is a must
• Comprehensive understanding in Linux, DevOps / SRE, IaC and 12 Factor Principles
• Strong understanding of Container Technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, Openshift)
Preferred experience:
• Strong understanding of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (Vmware Horizon / Citrix)
• Excellent hands on experience in configuration management, orchestration and IaC tools (Ansible, Jenkins, Terraform)
• Strong understanding of OS Compliance Policies (CIS Benchmark)
• Agile methodologies and its ceremonies
Halian Group
With over 20 years of experience, we have come to understand that innovation is the only way to provide agile, practical solutions that transform businesses and careers.
Our resourcing and smart services help you to realize tomorrow’s potential. Discover the amazing things possible when you bring the right people and the right technologies together.
About the Company
Founded in 1996, Halian is an IT services company with a strong track record of delivering value for our customers across the UK, Europe, The Middle East and Africa.
The experience we have gained means that we can help our clients reduce information technology costs, increase IT systems performance, and free up valuable internal resource to focus on core business activities. Our knowledge base covers a variety of industry sectors including Government, Healthcare, Telecommunications and Pharmaceuticals, as well as a specialist Financial markets capability in our Luxembourg office.
We operate with a culture of openness and trust that helps us to develop strong working relationships with our clients and with our core technology partners Dell, Oracle, Red Hat and Symantec.
Our three key service offerings of Managed Services, Resourcing Services and Professional Services can be used independently or integrated to provide a truly comprehensive service.