Senior Engineer - DevOps

Job Description

As a Senior Engineer – DevOps, you will design, deploy, and operate enterprise-grade virtualised infrastructure using VMware, Proxmox, and Linux KVM for production and critical client systems. You will build and maintain secure, scalable network architectures for hybrid, air-gapped, and restricted environments, while managing the full data-centre infrastructure lifecycle, including capacity planning, hardware procurement, and operational optimisation. You will also ensure the reliability, security, and compliance of mission-critical infrastructure through disciplined change control.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage VMware vSphere, Proxmox, and Linux KVM virtualised environments at scale.
• Manage the full virtual machine lifecycle, including provisioning, configuration, performance optimisation, and decommissioning.
• Implement cluster management, resource allocation, high availability, disaster recovery, hypervisor security, patching, and compliance.
• Monitor infrastructure performance, optimise resource utilisation, and manage capacity across physical hosts, including air-gapped environments.
• Design secure network architectures and configure firewalls, switches, routers, load balancers, and VPN solutions.
• Plan and execute network migrations, consolidations, segmentation, VLANs, security policies, and inter-data-centre connectivity.
• Monitor network performance, troubleshoot connectivity issues, and optimise bandwidth utilisation.
• Operate production systems at critical client sites using enterprise-grade change control and documentation.
• Manage servers, storage, backup, disaster recovery, capacity planning, procurement, lifecycle management, security, compliance, and asset inventories.
• Develop infrastructure-as-code using Terraform and Ansible to automate provisioning, configuration, and lifecycle management.
• Create shell, Python, and API-based automation, operational tools, and incident-response runbooks.
• Support GitLab CI/CD pipelines, Argo CD deployments, Kubernetes clusters, Helm, container registries, and secure image deployment.
• Build infrastructure observability capabilities, including proactive monitoring, alerting, troubleshooting procedures, automated remediation, and incident analysis.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience with virtualisation technologies, including VMware vSphere, vCenter, ESXi, vSAN, Proxmox, Linux KVM, libvirt, and QEMU.
• In-depth knowledge of cluster operations, resource allocation, high availability, disaster recovery, and performance optimisation.
• Strong expertise in network architecture and topology design, including firewalls, switches, routers, load balancers, VPNs, VLANs, network segmentation, WAN, MPLS, and SD-WAN.
• Proficiency in infrastructure automation using Terraform, Ansible, shell scripting, Python, and API integrations.
• Experience with storage and backup technologies, including SAN, NAS, object storage, distributed file systems, replication, and RTO/RPO planning.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, GitLab CI/CD pipelines, Argo CD, GitOps workflows, and container registry operations.
• Strong knowledge of infrastructure monitoring, alerting, log analysis, Linux administration, and Windows Server environments.
• Extensive experience in infrastructure operations and data centre management within enterprise or mission-critical environments.
• Proven ability to design, implement, and troubleshoot complex network and infrastructure environments.
• Experience operating critical production systems under formal change management, security, and compliance frameworks.
• Experience working within air-gapped or restricted environments, multi-site infrastructure, and data centre consolidation projects is highly desirable.
• Exposure to hardware procurement, vendor management, HPC or GPU infrastructure, SAN or distributed storage, and security hardening is advantageous.
• Experience across multiple virtualisation platforms, large-scale network operations, incident response, and post-incident improvement is preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor junior engineers and contribute to the development of infrastructure and operational best practices.

Our Benefits & Perks

• Competitive compensation packages and comprehensive medical insurance to support you and your family.
• Wellbeing-focused initiatives and resources, designed to enhance your personal and professional life.
• Access to exclusive discount programs, offering savings across various lifestyle and leisure experiences across the UAE

What Makes a Great Fit

If you are performance-driven and possess an inquisitive mind with the agility to navigate ambiguity, you will thrive here. At the heart of the Space42 community is a bias for action and a passion for developing innovative, efficient space services through AI-driven smart solutions that drive technological advancements and create a better tomorrow