GSS Tech Group is hiring a Senior Technology Engineer for a leading bank in the UAE. You will join the bank’s CTO Technology Chapter and own the product engineering lifecycle for a standard stack of consumable infrastructure products, with Linux as your core strength.
The bank runs a matrix structure. You will report into the Head of Technology Chapter for line management and work with the Compute Technology Platform squad for day to day priorities. You will lead the squad’s deliveries across design, development, implementation, standardization, automation and capacity planning.
This role suits a T shaped engineer: deep in Linux, and able to move across virtualization, containers, automation, CI/CD and public cloud as projects need.
What you will do
Technology Engineering
- Design, build and standardize Linux based infrastructure products (RHEL, OLVM, OpenShift) for enterprise consumption
- Automate deployment and configuration management with Ansible, Jenkins and Terraform so environments stay consistent and scalable
- Engineer and run virtualization platforms built on KVM, Libvirt, oVirt and OpenShift Virtualization
- Own OS compliance and hardening standards, working with the Security Chapter
- Manage patching, repository and artifact lifecycles with Red Hat Satellite, Spacewalk and Nexus
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex infrastructure and application issues with development and operations teams, for BAU and major incidents
- Keep communication clear and transparent with internal teams and stakeholders
Delivery
- Take projects from inception to production delivery
- Cover both engineering delivery and operational support under DevOps and SRE ways of working
- Apply DevOps, SRE, Infrastructure as Code and 12 Factor application principles
- Manage stakeholder expectations and deliver under pressure in a regulated banking environment
- Help meet annual targets for technology stack reduction and lower platform TCO
Stakeholder Management
- Build trusted relationships with the Technical Platforms, Security and application teams
- Take part in design forums and keep deliverables consistent across the wider infrastructure team
- Model and promote the bank’s values within the squad
Essential
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field
- 10+ years in infrastructure engineering, systems administration or operations, including 3+ years in a similar senior engineering role
- Deep Linux internals knowledge, ideally RHEL; exposure to OLVM and OpenShift
- Strong hands on experience with Ansible, Terraform and Jenkins
- Solid virtualization experience: KVM, Libvirt, oVirt or OpenShift Virtualization
- Container platform experience with native Kubernetes or OpenShift
- CI/CD pipeline experience, including hands on integration work
- Working knowledge of OS compliance frameworks and hardening (CIS benchmarks or equivalent)
- Experience with repository and artifact tools: Red Hat Satellite, Spacewalk, Nexus
- Hands on configuration of compute, storage and networking on Azure, AWS or OCI
- Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis for BAU and incidents
Desirable
- Experience in large, complex global enterprises with high availability, high transaction volumes and geographic distribution, ideally banking or financial services
- Red Hat certifications (RHCE, RHCA, OpenShift) or cloud certifications (Azure, AWS, OCI)
- Strong communication skills and the ability to explain technical decisions to senior stakeholders
What makes you a fit
- Self starter with strong initiative
- Calm under pressure, pragmatic but focused
- Keen to learn new technologies
- Long term deployment on a strategic infrastructure modernization program at a leading UAE bank
- Large scale, high availability enterprise environment
- Exposure to OpenShift, virtualization modernization and hybrid cloud
- Competitive compensation aligned to experience
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- 10+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering, systems administration, or operations
- 3+ years of experience in a similar senior engineering role
- Deep Linux internals knowledge, ideally RHEL; exposure to OLVM and OpenShift
- Hands-on experience with Ansible, Terraform, and Jenkins
- Virtualization experience with KVM, Libvirt, oVirt, or OpenShift Virtualization
- Container platform experience with Kubernetes or OpenShift
- CI/CD pipeline experience, including hands-on integration work
- Working knowledge of OS compliance frameworks and hardening, such as CIS benchmarks
- Experience with Red Hat Satellite, Spacewalk, and Nexus
- Hands-on configuration of compute, storage, and networking on Azure, AWS, or OCI
- Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis experience for BAU operations and incidents
- Experience in large, complex global enterprises with high availability, high transaction volumes, and geographic distribution, ideally banking or financial services
- Red Hat certifications such as RHCE, RHCA, or OpenShift certifications
- Azure, AWS, or OCI cloud certifications
- Strong communication skills and ability to explain technical decisions to senior stakeholders
What We Do
Global Software Solutions Group Veracious product line is a series of robust banking platforms that provide core banking, payment systems, custom process automation, and document management solutions for banks and financial institutions in Middle East & Africa. This cutting-edge product line features the Veracious Payments Hub, Digital Banking and the DMS, all built on the Torus Lowcode development platform software. Global Software Solutions Group is a software solutions provider that aims to solve mission-critical problems that financial institutions face today. Our software solutions bring together our Low Code platform, the payments product line and customized service offerings to solve mission-critical statements in core banking, payments, process automation, and document management. The Payments Hub is GSS's flagship product.
