Confidential
Position Title: Senior Systems Specialist
Employment Type: Full Time
Salary: all-inclusive depending on experience and qualifications plus family benefits
Job Location: Jeddah, KSA
About the Client:
A highly recognized international group handling Information Technology & Services located in KSA.
Job Description:
Deliver and manage the complex hybrid cloud computing environments, which integrate public clouds with a variety of on-premises virtualization platforms
Manage the scientific application stack comprising many open-source scientific applications and support researchers during their execution
Support the operations of advanced Linux-based solutions running on virtual servers and containers and hosting critical business and research applications
Qualifications:
Bachelor’s or Higher Degree in Business, Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field required
Expert-level knowledge of Linux OS administration
Expert-level knowledge of Docker containers and Kubernetes orchestration
Readily able to author DockerFiles, Kubernetes manifests and CI/CD pipelines
Expert-level knowledge of open-source applications, ability to manage build & compilation process and optimization, strong troubleshooting capability
Expert-level of open-source build tools such as cmake, make, gcc, SCons, Spack, Linuxbrew
Strong knowledge of Git and GitLab and good familiarity with GitOps principles
A strong advocate of Infrastructure As a Code (“IaC”) infrastructure management approach
Familiar with virtualization platforms such as VMware/vSphere and OpenStack
Familiar with public IaaS clouds such as Microsoft Azure and AWS
Good knowledge of programming and scripting languages (Python, JavaScript, bash, and similar)
Familiar with ElasticSearch, Nagios, Prometheus, Ansible, and Terraform