Purpose Of The Job:
DevOps / HPC Engineer responsible for designing, automating, and maintaining large-scale Linux systems, CI/CD pipelines, and containerized environments. Ensures high availability, scalability, and performance of HPC clusters and deployment platforms. Develops automation tools, monitors systems, and resolves hardware/software issues for optimal operations.
Responsibilities and Duties:
• Building and maintaining tools, solutions, and microservices associated with deployment and our operations platform, ensuring that all meet our customer service standards and reduce errors.
• Actively troubleshoot any issues that arise during testing and production, catching and solving issues before launch.
• Work with open-source technologies as needed.
• OS Setup on large scale - Different versions of Linux for several projects
• Developing automation tools to ensure scalability and high availability of our services.
• Automates the provisioning of environments for DevOps Toolchain
• Configures, tunes, maintains, and installs applications systems and validates system functionality
• Monitors and fine tunes applications system to achieve optimum performance levels and works with hardware teams to resolve issues with hardware and software
• Develops and enables continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) for DevOps Toolset • Utilizing development pipelines using Jenkins, Cloud Formation, Puppet or other tools as appropriate.
• Working with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes, or other technologies.
• Scripting and automating system tasks to reduce manual repetitive work.
Education:
B.Sc. in Computer and/or Communications Engineering or similar degree that provides a strong knowledge of computer science.
Experience:
Years of Experience: 1 - 3
Basic Qualifications:
Technical: Very good knowledge of Linux/Unix based systems. - Basic understanding of programming concepts and scripting languages [bash - python]. - CPU & computer system architectures, data-center main building-blocks. - Good knowledge of Containers [Docker] - Basic knowledge of CI/CD tools [Gitlab] - Excellent troubleshooting capabilities & problem-solving skills. - IP Networks Fundamentals.
Skills and Abilities
Personal: - We are looking for candidates who are smart, passionate, hard workers, with high ability of selflearning and who feel comfortable working on the edge of the unknown. - Excellent oral and written communication skills - Excellent oral and written English skills. - Candidates are ready to travel 50% of the time in the GULF region.
Following will be considered as a plus: - Experience in configuration management tools [Ansible, Puppet]. - Experience in containers orchestration [kubernetes]. - Good knowledge in one of the virtualization and cloud technologies [VMware / Hyper-v / OpenStack].
