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Job Purpose
To Design & Support IT-solutions for the EK
Group. Working as part of a design & Support team, the Senior
Technical Engineer will design, develop, support, and deliver robust
and cost-effective solutions for both Business and IT led initiatives
including solution development and cost estimations, configuration and
deployment, Business Case Development & Approval.
To support,
contribute and ensure solution compliance to the enterprise
architecture, production processes, QMS and other EG-IT
standards.
To support, contribute and ensure development of the
roadmap of the concerned technology roadmap aligning with IT
strategy.
Job Outline:
– Provide expert technical
consultancy and guidance to EG-IT dealing within the technology area
and act as lead technical member in the Project team delivering the
work packages assigned.
– Develop IT Solutions that meet customer
requirements. Ensure that the design is robust, appropriate and of
high quality and conforming to corporate standards and in line with
the technical strategy.
– Ensure that the developed
architecture/solution meets the service level requirements in terms of
expected availability, capacity, continuity, security, performance and
reliability. Ensuring that the developed architecture/solution meets
the service level requirements in terms of expected availability,
capacity, continuity, security, performance and reliability.
–
Foster the development of high performing technical teams to meet
strategic architectural objectives.
– Develop Solution
architectures for assigned projects with established EA standards and
also to support in the development of technology advancements and
adaptation of new technologies.
– Collaborate with other IT
Technology Teams to implement ongoing monitoring of the relevant
technology to ensure severity 1 & 2 Incidents are configured within
EMS.
– Provide guidance to Project managers / Technology Team
Managers for solution definition, technical design and development of
in house developed solutions. These are to be delivered as per agreed
costs and timescales to meet signed off functional, technical and
process requirements.
– Ensure that assigned incidents are
resolved within the agreed Service Levels and problems are defined and
analysed in line with the Problem Management Process. Ensure that
solutions to problems meet the architectural and security standards
within the technology area and impact to the business is minimised.
Own & manage changes within the Technology Area.
– Publish and
maintain high quality documentation for technology area. Working
within the standard templates and documentation guidelines which
includes detailed design, configuration details, support procedures,
operations manuals and deployment architecture.
– Manage ‘End of
Life’ replacement of equipment and/or software within the technology
area to ensure conformance to technical standards and support the
technology initiatives and directions.
– Ensure the process and
Enhancement specifications are translated into effective programs with
error free code using the enterprise development tools, methods and
languages.
Qualifications & Experience
Information Technology.
Network : 8+ Years
Degree or Honours (12+3 or equivalent) :
Degree in Information Technology
Knowledge/Skills: ITIL and
AGILE Frameworks
Domain certification:
– AKAMAI deep
knowledge on CDN and GTM Capabilities
– AWS/Azure Certified
Solutions Architect
– Certified Kubernetes Administrator
–
Hands-on experience on Operating systems – Windows, Linux.
–
Expert knowledge in HTTP(S) protocol and its implementations.
Different HTTP versions, TLS certificates, TCP/UDP.
– Expert
knowledge in Application Delivery Network management (CDN, Load
Balancing, etc.)
– Expert knowledge in DNS protocol.
–
Hands-on experience in infrastructure automation
(Infrastructure-as-Code, Configuration-as-Code) tools like Terraform,
Ansible, etc.
– Experience in designing and maintaining
production-grade applications in distributed, virtualized or
containerized, environments.
Salary & Benefits
Join us in
Dubai and enjoy an attractive tax-free salary and travel benefits that
are exclusive to our industry, including discounts on flights and
hotels stays around the world. You can find out more information about
our employee benefits in the Working Here section of our website
Further information on what’s it like to live and work in our
cosmopolitan home city, can be found in the Dubai Lifestyle section.
