DevOps Engineer

The opportunity

As a DevOps Engineer in our team, you will be responsible for working collaboratively with software engineering to deploy and operate our systems. You will help automate and streamline our operations and processes; building and maintaining tools for deployment, monitoring and operations.

The Company

Presight, an ADX-listed public company limited by shares whose majority shareholder is Abu Dhabi company G42, is the region's leading big data analytics company powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI). It combines big data, analytics, and AI expertise to serve every sector, of every scale, to create business and positive societal impact. With its world-class computer vision, AI and omni-analytics platform as its engine, Presight excels at all-source data interpretation to support insight-driven decision making that shapes policy and creates safer, healthier, happier, and more sustainable societies.

Responsibilities

Key responsibilities

• The candidate is expected to have a solid background on software development with strong python coding skills and solve challenging problems.
• You are responsible for growing and developing an incredible team of talented and motivated engineers with high expectations around individual ownership and impact.
• You maintain scalable and robust CI/CD framework.
• You are proactive, ensuring issues are tracked appropriately in the ticket management system.
• You are a Team-Player, working with engineers and QA to ensure that issues are resolved, and fixes deployed, in a timely fashion.
• You are detailed, maintaining suitable deployment-specific support documentation.
• You have knowledge of best practices and IT operations in an always-up, always-available service.
• You transform ambiguity into clarity.
• You enjoy collaborating in a multicultural and diverse environment that expands to include various geographic locations.
• You have stellar communication skills, effectively expressing yourself. You convey and receive information in a clear, credible, and consistent manner.
• You are open to travel as required by the business.

Qualifications

To qualify, you must have

• Bachelor's degree in computer engineering, Computer Science, or Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences.
• 4+ years experience in DevOps.
• Experience in developing Continuous Integration/ Continuous Delivery pipelines (CI/ CD).
• Experience in building health and performance monitoring systems.
• Strong background in Linux/Unix Administration.
• Knowledge of one cloud platform such as AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Solid hands-on knowledge of Configuration Management and Deployment tools such as Puppet, Ansible, Chef, Terraform etc.
• Solid hands-on knowledge of Dockers and Container Orchestration tools such Kubernetes or Dockerswarm.
• Proficient in scripting, and Git and Git workflows.
• Strong experience with SQL and MySQL.
• A working understanding of code and script (Java, Python).

Bonus, if you have

• Knowledge of Hadoop, Cloudera, Hortinworks or MapR.
• Working knowledge of OAuth 2.0, OpenID/OpenID-Connect, SAML 2.0, Kerberos, LDAP.

This is a 12 months contract role based in Abu Dhabi.

What we look for:

If you are a performance-driven, inquisitive mind with the agility to adapt to ambiguity, you will fit right in. You should be eager to explore opportunities to build meaningful collaborations with stakeholders and aspire to create unique customer-centric solutions. Bias for action and a passion to conquer new frontiers in the Big Data Analytics space is at the heart of the Presight community.

What working at Presight offers:

Culture: An open, diverse and inclusive environment with a global vision that encourages personal growth and focuses on ground-breaking, industry-first innovations.

Career: Outstanding learning, development & growth opportunities via structured training programs and innovative, high-tech projects.

Rewards: A competitive remuneration package with a host of perks including healthcare, education support, leave benefits and more.