Principal Devops Engineer
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About the Role
Ounass is seeking a Principal DevOps Engineer to lead the technical direction of infrastructure, platform, and operational tooling. This hands-on individual contributor role involves designing scalable, reliable, and secure cloud solutions on AWS and Kubernetes, driving CI/CD improvements, and mentoring engineers.
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Responsibilities
- Own the technical architecture of cloud infrastructure (AWS), container orchestration (Kubernetes/EKS), and networking, balancing performance, cost, security, and reliability.
- Design and continuously improve CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI, ArgoCD) to enable fast, safe, automated delivery across Magento and microservices.
- Define and enforce standards for observability (Grafana, NewRelic, OpenSearch), alerting, SLOs/SLIs, and incident response.
- Lead infrastructure as code practices (Terraform/Helm) and drive consistency, reuse, and self service across teams.
- Act as the final technical escalation point for complex production incidents; lead root cause analysis and own the resulting engineering follow ups.
- Set the security and reliability baseline — secrets management, vulnerability remediation, patching strategy, and disaster recovery design.
- Evaluate and recommend tooling, platforms, and vendors; produce the technical case and proof of concepts behind decisions.
- Mentor engineers technically through design reviews, pairing, and architecture guidance — raising the bar without line managing anyone.
- Partner with the DevOps Manager to translate technical priorities (capacity, tech debt, platform roadmap) into deliverable work.
Requirements
- 8+ years in DevOps / SRE / platform engineering with deep hands on expertise in AWS and Kubernetes at production scale
- Expert with infrastructure as code (Terraform, Helm) and configuration management
- Strong scripting/automation ability (Python, Bash, Go) and solid software engineering fundamentals
- Proven track record designing CI/CD at scale (Jenkins, GitLab CI, ArgoCD) for high traffic e commerce or comparable systems
- Deep knowledge of observability and incident management; experience defining SLOs and reducing MTTR
- Strong grasp of cloud security, networking, and cost optimisation
- Experience supporting large platforms (e.g. Magento/Adobe Commerce, microservices, high volume retail) is a strong advantage
Full Job Posting
About the Role
- Join us as a Principal DevOps Engineer at Ounass to lead the technical direction of our infrastructure, platform, and operational tooling.
- This is a hands on individual contributor role focused on driving technical excellence through architecture, innovation, and deep technical expertise.
Key Responsibilities
- Own the technical architecture of cloud infrastructure (AWS), container orchestration (Kubernetes/EKS), and networking.
- Design and continuously improve CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI, ArgoCD) to enable fast, safe, automated delivery.
- Define and enforce standards for observability (Grafana, NewRelic, OpenSearch), alerting, SLOs/SLIs, and incident response.
- Lead infrastructure as code practices (Terraform/Helm) and drive consistency, reuse, and self service across teams.
- Act as the final technical escalation point for complex production incidents; lead root cause analysis.
- Set the security and reliability baseline — secrets management, vulnerability remediation, patching strategy, and disaster recovery design.
- Evaluate and recommend tooling, platforms, and vendors; produce the technical case and proof of concepts.
- Mentor engineers technically through design reviews, pairing, and architecture guidance.
- Partner with the DevOps Manager to translate technical priorities into deliverable work.
Qualifications
- 8+ years in DevOps / SRE / platform engineering with deep hands on expertise in AWS and Kubernetes at production scale.
- Expert with infrastructure as code (Terraform, Helm) and configuration management.
- Strong scripting/automation ability (Python, Bash, Go) and solid software engineering fundamentals.
- Proven track record designing CI/CD at scale (Jenkins, GitLab CI, ArgoCD) for high traffic e commerce or comparable systems.
- Deep knowledge of observability and incident management; experience defining SLOs and reducing MTTR.
- Strong grasp of cloud security, networking, and cost optimisation.
- Experience supporting large platforms (e.g. Magento/Adobe Commerce, microservices, high volume retail) is a strong advantage.
Workplace
- The role is based in Dubai role is onsite hybrid.
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