Senior Software Engineer – Infrastructure, DevOps, SecOps, Automation, DBA
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We are hiring for one our clients which is a telecom operator in Qatar.
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- We are hiring for one our clients which is a telecom operator in Qatar.
- **Key Responsibilities**
- Must have Hands-on experience in configuring and building the complete Oracle DBX stack infrastructure (On-prem, Cloud) environments
- Administer and support virtualization platforms including VMware ESXi/vCenter, OLVM, and Oracle VM (OVM).
- Perform Linux/Unix system administration, patching, performance tuning, and troubleshooting.
- Automate infrastructure and operational tasks using Bash scripting, Ansible, and Jenkins pipelines.
- Manage virtualization lifecycle activities including VM provisioning, migration, cloning, snapshots, HA, and DR operations.
- Troubleshoot infrastructure, virtualization, networking, and application performance issues and perform root cause analysis.
- Operate and support carrier grade infrastructure platforms supporting business services.
- Manage and troubleshoot virtualization, compute, storage, and networking components.
- Perform system patching, upgrades, capacity planning, and performance optimization.
- Support high availability and business critical platforms with minimal service disruption.
- Participate in the change management, CAB, and incident/problem management processes (ITIL aligned).
- Security Operations for Enterprise Environment
- Provide day-to-day operational support for Vodafone security solutions across IT and cloud platforms.
- Monitor platform health, alerts, and service availability in line with Vodafone SLAs and OLAs.
- Support security incident investigations, remediation actions, and post incident reviews.
- Ensure adherence to Vodafone security policies, standards, and global governance frameworks.
- Maintain up to date operational documentation, SOPs, and runbooks.
- Support and operate security controls embedded within CI/CD pipelines.
- Collaborate with DevOps and platform teams to implement DevSecOps practices.
- Design and maintain automation scripts to reduce manual effort and operational risk.
- Support containerized and cloud native platforms used across IT environments.
- Drive standardization and repeatability in deployments and security controls.
- **Required Technical Skills**
• Infrastructure Experience (Essential)
- Strong background in enterprise scale infrastructure operations, ideally within telecom or regulated environments.
- Hands-on expertise with virtualization platforms
• Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager (OLVM)
- VMware vSphere / ESXi
- Strong Linux administration experience
- Oracle Linux 7 / 8 / 9 / 10
- System troubleshooting, patching, performance tuning, and hardening
- Solid understanding of enterprise networking and storage concepts
- VLANs, bonding, IP addressing, DNS
- SAN / shared storage concepts
- Experience supporting hybrid infrastructure environments (on premises + cloud)
• Cloud Experience (Required And Preferred)
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (OCI, VMware and OLVM)
- Understanding of cloud compute, networking, storage, and identity/security services
- Experience operating workloads across hybrid and multi cloud Vodafone landscapes
- Experience with CI/CD tools such as:
- Jenkins
- GitLab CI/CD
- Harbor
- Artifactory
- Sonarqube
- Practical knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC):
• Terraform, Ansible, Helm
- Experience with container platforms:
- Docker
- Crio, Podman
- Kubernetes (on prem or cloud)
- Scripting & Automation (Mandatory – Vodafone Focus)
- Strong hands-on experience in scripting and automation for enterprise operations.
- Proficiency in:
- Shell scripting (Bash)
- Python
- Working knowledge of:
- Perl
- Groovy (CI/CD pipeline scripting)
- Ability to automate:
- Infrastructure and security operations
- Monitoring and health checks
- Deployment, configuration, and remediation tasks
- Experience embedding automation into Vodafone CI/CD pipelines and operational workflows
- Operational experience with security technologies such as:
- Network security (firewalls, segmentation)
- Endpoint or server security EDR
- SIEM / centralized logging platforms
- Vulnerability, access management and Hardening as per CSS benchmarks.
- Ivanti or similar patch management solution
- Certificate management
- Micro segmentation solution
- Deception solution
- Strong grounding in networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTPS, TLS).
- Experience with monitoring and observability platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).
- Hands-on experience in installing and configuring the Oracle DBX applications databases
- Good with RAC concepts and database architecture
- Perform DR, backup restoration drill, Data guard
- Good performance analysis
- Hands-on in Setting up RAC and standalone database
- Good with Oracle ASM
- Preparation of RCA for Major Incidents
- Database impact analysis in case of major activities.
- Hands-on experience on data replication, backup and restore
- Cloning database for supported assets.
- DB - Flashback configuration and restoration
- OEM setup and configuration
- Maintaining and updating Infra AS IS / Infra Documents
- Providing root cause analysis.
- Starting and stopping databases, ASM, RAC services.
- Hands-on experience in database Backup and recovery
- Defining and Executing Effective Housekeeping, Maintenance activities to improve Application availability and performance consistently.
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