Lead DevOps Engineer - UAE Onsite Opportunity

Responsibilities:

• Architect, design, develop, and deploy DevOps flows to support cloud-native applications.  
• Work with team leadership and other technologists to create enterprise solutions based on business and technical priorities.  
• Actively contribute to the adoption of robust cloud architecture, development and engineering best practices, and the adoption of new cloud technologies.  
• Break down complex problems into elegant technical solutions to intelligently solve problems for Lab49's clients.  
• Provide guidance, thought leadership, and mentorship to development teams to build cloud competencies.  
• Describe complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences.  
• Define and document best practices and strategies regarding application deployment and infrastructure maintenance.  

Required Skills and Experience:

• 8-10 years of experience working on cloud infrastructure & automation.
• Experience with and knowledge of software development lifecycle and infrastructure-as-code tooling - Terraform.
• Experience with architecting, designing, developing, and deploying cloud-native applications, in particular Microsoft Azure, though exposure to additional public cloud providers is a positive.
• Good working knowledge of various cloud services provided by Microsoft Azure.
• Strong knowledge of Serverless and containerized solutions including Azure Functions, AWS Lambda, Docker and Kubernetes (AKS)
• Knowledge of DevOps technology and approaches including Pulumi, Terraform, Hashicorp tools, GitHub/GitLab and Internal Developer Portals.
• Experience with Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions and / or Jenkins or other CI/CD tools.
• Experience working with Microservices architectures including API Gateways and Service Catalogs.
• Experience building APIs including REST and Async.
• Ability to collaborate across multi-discipline teams on architecture, features, and problem-solving.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts effectively, both written and orally, as well as interpersonal skills required to collaborate effectively with customers and colleagues from diverse technical teams.
• Good grasp of software design patterns and effective development methodologies.
• BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

Desired Skills:

• Ideally, experience with other tools like CloudFormation, CDK, Helm  
• Experience with migrating legacy applications to the cloud.  
• Experience with and understanding of cloud security concepts and tooling, such as AWS IAM, HashiCorp Vault, CyberArk, etc.  
• Experience with cloud data services, such as Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Database for PostgresSQL, Azure SQL Database, Azure Event Hub, AWS Aurora, and DynamoDB.
• Good knowledge of at least one programming language (Java, JavaScript, Python, Go), Python preferred.  
• Serverless Architectures experience.