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Emirates Airlines invites applications for Principal Engineer in Dubai, UAE

Job Title:

Principal Engineer – Public Cloud

Job Purpose

Emirates IT is looking for the right candidate to join our unique public cloud journey and be a part of the dynamic high performing team of experts who are actively working on maturing our cloud footprint, unlocking native capabilities and automating our services. With long standing partnerships with leading hyperscaler’s and key workloads hosted globally, we are looking to expand our existing team with innovative cloud experts that will help us elevate our cloud posture and drive end to end automation.

About The Role:

The Principal Engineer – Public Cloud will take the lead in developing and maturing the product and services roadmap on the public cloud, in alignment with architecture principles and IT strategy. She/he will design, develop, support, and deliver automated and cost-effective public cloud services. This includes working on landing zone components, shared services, network, policies, and consumable services, using Infrastructure as Code through Terraform. The successful candidate will also take part in application onboarding and cost optimisation on the cloud recommending and implementing saving plans wherever applicable.

What You’ll Be Expected To Do:

Take the Lead in developing the public cloud roadmap and collect feedback from stakeholders.
Socialize the product roadmap and continuously evolve its maturity while driving adoption.
Develop Metrics and KPIs to measure the Cloud maturity and produce improvement plans.
Play the role of Automation advocate, where all activities need to be fully automated and self-serviced to consumers.
Discover and implement cloud native capabilities to replace traditional services.
Follow Emirates Agile Delivery methodology to design and deliver features aligned with the roadmap.
Implement and maintain landing zones and availability zones through code.
Implement and maintain shared services through code.
Drive Infrastructure as code automation in all public cloud offerings and services through Terraform.
Enforce standards, security compliance and guardrails using policies through code.
Lead cost optimization practices on the cloud.
Have a solid understanding of cloud networking and have the ability to assist in network management.
Participate in application onboarding to the public cloud.
Establish and maintain product documentations and low-level design documents on confluence.
Provide required operational support to cloud services in line with the agreed services levels.
Foster the development of high performing technical teams to meet strategic architectural objectives.

Qualifications & Experience

Qualifications:

Degree or Honours (12+3 or equivalent). Degree in Information Technology

Experience and Skills You’ll Need To Have:

Must have skills:

Experience working with Public Cloud providers AWS/Azure: 8+ Years
8+ Years of Hands-on experience in AWS Cloud engineering and delivery.
8+ Years of Hands-on experience in MS Azure Cloud engineering and delivery.
Excellent knowledge in scripting and automation platforms (such as: Terraform and Jenkins)
Certifications: AWS/Azure Certified Solutions Architect

Nice to have skills:

AKAMAI knowledge on CDN and GTM Capabilities
Kubernetes experience

Knowledge:

ITIL and AGILE Frameworks

Salary & Benefits

Join us in a management role and enjoy an attractive tax-free salary. On top of our generous travel benefits, including discounted flights and hotel stays around the world, this managerial role also has an excellent leave and healthcare package. That’s on top of transport benefits, life insurance and more. Find out what it’s like to live and work in our fast-paced, cosmopolitan home city in the Dubai Lifestyle section of our website www.emirates.com/careers