Senior DevOps Engineer
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We are seeking a Senior DevOps with deep hands-on expertise in Rancher Kubernetes on bare metal, Kubernetes Operators, and high-availability design across core data services (PostgreSQL, Kafka, Redis, Vault, Keycloak).
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Overview
We are seeking a
Senior Devops
with deep hands-on expertise in
Rancher Kubernetes on bare metal
,
Kubernetes Operators
, and
high-availability
design across core data services (PostgreSQL, Kafka, Redis, Vault, Keycloak).
The ideal consultant has production experience integrating
hardware load balancers
Fortinet
, alternatively
F5
) with Kubernetes ingress, and can deliver a
repeatable, scripted cluster bootstrap
and
observability stack
(Grafana, Prometheus, Jaeger, plus EFK or VictoriaMetrics Logs).
You will work
onsite in Dubai
with the Tejori team to design, implement, document, and hand over a robust, secure, and monitored platform to run Emcode’s commercial workloads.
Kubernetes & Rancher
- Architect and deploy a
- highly available Rancher-managed Kubernetes
- cluster on
- bare metal
- (multi-master, etcd quorum sizing, worker pools).
- Implement
- cluster provisioning
- and
- lifecycle automation
- (bootstrapping scripts and/or Pulumi/Ansible based flows).
- Configure
- Rancher projects, namespaces, RBAC, and fleet
- for multi-environment governance.
Networking & Ingress
- Design and implement
- ingress traffic
- from
- Fortinet hardware load balancers
- (or F5) to the Rancher/Kubernetes ingress layer (Layer 4/7).
- Configure
- ingress controllers
(e.g., NGINX or HAProxy),
TLS termination
,
mTLS
where applicable, and
Waf
/security policies at the LB and cluster edge.
Data & Platform Services On Kubernetes
- Deploy and harden
PostgreSQL, Kafka, Redis, Vault, and Keycloak
using
Operators
- and/or well-supported Helm charts.
- Configure
- backup/restore
- ,
- secrets management (Vault/KMS)
- ,
- rotations
- , and HA (replication, quorum, partitions, failover).
- Ensure
- data durability
- and performance tuning for bare-metal constraints (storage classes, CSI drivers, network tuning).
Observability & Logging
- Stand up
- Prometheus + Alertmanager + Grafana
- for metrics and dashboards.
- Deploy
Jaeger
- (or OpenTelemetry Collector → Jaeger) for distributed tracing.
- Implement
Efk (Elasticsearch And Fluentd And Kibana)
or
Victoriametrics Logs
(e.g., VictoriaLogs/Loki alternative) with retention and index strategy.
Automation & Iac
- Create
- idempotent scripts
- and/or
Pulumi
- stacks for cluster bootstrap, app provisioning, and infra config.
- Develop
Ansible
roles/playbooks for OS hardening, package prep, and repeatable node bring‑up.
Security & Compliance
- Enforce
- network policies
- ,
Rbac And Abac
,
And PSA,
- image signing
- /scanning, registry policies.
- Integrate
Keycloak
- for SSO into Rancher, Grafana, and app workloads.
- Establish
- backup, DR, and secrets management
- standards (Vault policies, transit encryption).
Documentation & Handover
- Produce
- as-built documentation
- ,
- runbooks
- ,
- troubleshooting guides
- , and
- DR procedures
- .
- Conduct
- knowledge transfer
- sessions and
- tabletop failover tests
- with the team.
Required Qualifications
- **10+ years**
- DevOps/SRE with production
Kubernetes
- (Rancher experience required).
- Strong with
Kubernetes Operators
,
Helm
- ,
- ingress controllers
- .
- Proven deployments of
PostgreSQL, Kafka, Redis, Vault, Keycloak
- on K8s.
- **Fortinet load balancers**
- (highly desirable) or
experience in production.
- **Pulumi**
- (preferred) and
Ansible
- for IaC and configuration.
- **Monitoring stack**
- : Grafana, Prometheus, Alertmanager, Jaeger; EFK or Victoria Logs.
- **Bash**
- proficiency and at least one high-level language (
Go
or
Python
- ).
- HA/DR design on
- bare metal
- , including storage/CNI selection and tuning.
- Excellent documentation and team enablement skills.
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