# Sr. DevOps Engineer - OpenShift & CI/CD

> GSSTech Group · Dubai, United Arab Emirates · — · Posted 2026-08-12

**Workplace:** on_site

## Description

We are looking for an experienced **Senior DevOps Engineer** with strong hands-on expertise in **CI/CD, OpenShift, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitOps, Service Mesh, and DevOps automation**.

The successful candidate will be responsible for designing, implementing, managing, and optimizing CI/CD pipelines and containerized application environments across Kubernetes and OpenShift platforms. The role requires strong practical experience in enterprise DevOps environments, automation, microservices security, observability, and cross-functional collaboration.

## Requirements

### Key Responsibilities

-   Design, implement, manage, and optimize **CI/CD pipelines** for enterprise application deployments.
-   Build and manage deployment pipelines across container technologies including **Native Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift**.
-   Develop and maintain automated CI/CD workflows using **GitHub Actions**.
-   Implement and manage **Jenkins-based Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)** pipelines.
-   Develop and maintain **Jenkins Shared Libraries, Pipeline-as-Code, and Groovy scripting** for CI/CD automation.
-   Implement and manage **GitOps-based deployment practices** using tools such as **ArgoCD**.
-   Work with development and engineering teams to automate application build, deployment, release, and environment management processes.
-   Manage and support multiple application environments across development, testing, staging, and production.
-   Implement and maintain **Service Mesh** solutions within containerized and microservices environments.
-   Support secure communication between microservices and understand **microservice authentication and authorization mechanisms**.
-   Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, deploy, configure, and manage different application environments.
-   Implement DevOps automation to improve deployment reliability, repeatability, and efficiency.
-   Monitor application and platform health and troubleshoot infrastructure, deployment, and pipeline issues.
-   Implement and maintain enterprise **logging and monitoring solutions**.
-   Work with **ELK Stack, Prometheus, and Grafana** for centralized logging, monitoring, metrics, dashboards, and troubleshooting.
-   Support production deployments, incident resolution, performance monitoring, and continuous platform improvements.
-   Contribute to DevOps standards, automation frameworks, engineering best practices, and platform reliability initiatives.

### Required Technical Skills

### CI/CD & Automation

-   Strong hands-on experience with **CI/CD pipelines**.
-   Strong experience with **Jenkins**.
-   Experience developing **Jenkins Shared Libraries**.
-   Strong understanding of **Pipeline-as-Code**.
-   Hands-on experience with **Groovy scripting** for Jenkins automation.
-   Strong hands-on experience with **GitHub Actions**.

### Kubernetes & OpenShift

-   Strong hands-on experience with **Native Kubernetes**.
-   Strong hands-on experience with **Red Hat OpenShift administration and deployments**.
-   Experience deploying and managing containerized applications across Kubernetes/OpenShift environments.
-   Strong understanding of container-based application deployment and orchestration.

### GitOps

-   Practical experience with **GitOps methodologies**.
-   Hands-on experience with **ArgoCD** or similar GitOps tools.
-   Understanding of automated, declarative application deployment and environment management.

### Service Mesh & Microservices Security

-   Practical hands-on experience with **Service Mesh** technologies.
-   Strong understanding of **microservices architecture**.
-   Strong understanding of **microservice authentication and authorization processes**.
-   Understanding of secure service-to-service communication.

### Monitoring & Observability

-   Strong understanding of enterprise **logging and monitoring solutions**.
-   Hands-on experience with **ELK Stack**.
-   Hands-on experience with **Prometheus**.
-   Hands-on experience with **Grafana**.
-   Ability to troubleshoot application and platform issues using logs, metrics, and monitoring dashboards.

### Required Competencies

-   Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
-   Ability to work across development, testing, operations, security, and infrastructure teams.
-   Strong understanding of enterprise DevOps practices and automation.
-   Ability to manage multiple environments and deployment pipelines.
-   Strong communication and collaboration skills.
-   Strong ownership of production stability, deployment quality, and continuous improvement.
-   Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced Agile/DevOps environment.

### Preferred Experience

-   Experience working in **banking or financial services** environments.
-   Experience supporting enterprise-scale Kubernetes/OpenShift platforms.
-   Experience with highly available and production-critical applications.
-   Exposure to security, compliance, and controlled deployment practices within regulated environments.

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