Platform Reliability Engineer
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About the Role
EDGE Group seeks a Platform Reliability Engineer to ensure reliability, performance, and recoverability of a hybrid multicloud platform. The role involves automation, disaster recovery testing, and migration from VMware to modern cloud platforms.
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Responsibilities
- Ensuring the reliability, performance, and recoverability of critical platform services
- Managing and validating backup and recovery capabilities using enterprise tools such as Rubrik
- Planning and executing disaster recovery testing and recovery assurance activities
- Supporting platform and workload migrations from VMware to modern cloud platforms
- Developing automation to reduce operational effort and improve service reliability
- Improving observability, monitoring, alerting, and operational readiness across the platform
Requirements
- Strong experience with enterprise infrastructure, cloud, or platform engineering
- Experience with Nutanix, VMware, public cloud platforms, and backup/recovery technologies
- Strong PowerShell, Python, or similar automation skills
- Experience improving platform resilience, recoverability, and operational efficiency through automation
- Proven ability to reduce operational toil and improve reliability at scale
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About The Opportunity
- We're building a highly resilient hybrid multicloud platform spanning Nutanix and public cloud, while delivering a major migration from VMware.
- We're looking for a Platform Reliability Engineer who is passionate about automation, resilience, recoverability, and operational excellence.
What You'll Be Doing
- Ensuring the reliability, performance, and recoverability of critical platform services
- Managing and validating backup and recovery capabilities using enterprise tools such as Rubrik
- Planning and executing disaster recovery testing and recovery assurance activities
- Supporting platform and workload migrations from VMware to modern cloud platforms
- Developing automation to reduce operational effort and improve service reliability
- Improving observability, monitoring, alerting, and operational readiness across the platform
What We're Looking For
- Strong experience with enterprise infrastructure, cloud, or platform engineering
- Experience with Nutanix, VMware, public cloud platforms, and backup/recovery technologies
- Strong PowerShell, Python, or similar automation skills
- Experience improving platform resilience, recoverability, and operational efficiency through automation
- Proven ability to reduce operational toil and improve reliability at scale
For this role, you must be able to demonstrate:
- Reliability improvements you've delivered and how success was measured
- Disaster recovery programmes or recovery testing you've led
- Operational processes you've automated and the impact achieved
- How you validate recoverability, not just successful backups
- Major migration or transformation programmes you've supported
Why Choose EDGE?
- Salaries are highly competitive and tax free
- Benefits can include family visas, annual flight tickets, medical insurance for you and your dependants, and education allowances for your children
- Extensive opportunities to develop your skills and advance your career through our own learning academy and digital learning platform
About EDGE Group
- EDGE is a leading advanced technology group working at the forefront of defence and emerging technologies
- Headquartered in the United Arab Emirates, spanning more than 35 specialised companies and multiple centres of excellence
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