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Sword Group

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About the job

Sword is looking for a talented Platform Engineer to join our team in Dubai.

 

Our client wants to reinforce its API Management Team in charge of building a one-stop platform aiming to consolidate, standardize, and facilitate the use of APIs by internal teams.

As a Platform Engineer you will be part of the Client Team and you will report to the Technical Lead. You will work in a global environment with highly distributed teams in different countries and time zones and at different management levels.

You will participate in both development and operations with a focus on the platform, its tools

and supporting functionality. A DevOps mindset is required where you strive to always empower the API platform users through self-service, automation, and observability. Security is considered a hygiene factor and permeates all your work.

 

Roles & Responsibilities:

? Collaborate with Developer, Support, and other team members in developing, maintaining, supporting, and operating the API Management platform

? Integrate the API Management platform with various external systems

? Develop, maintain, and operate tools and façade services that orchestrate backend calls

? Develop, maintain, and deploy infrastructure as code using Terraform

? Develop, maintain, operate, and support CI/CD pipelines in Gitlab for automating various tasks such as managing APIs on the platform and deploying services on Kubernetes clusters

? Develop, maintain, and operate dashboards in Apigee and other tools

? Operate the API Gateways and other services on Kubernetes in GCP, AWS and Alibaba

? Maintain and operate the Developer Portal based on Drupal

? Participate in frontend development for the Developer Portal

? Participate in the development of API Gateways based on Kubernetes, Apigee and ISTIO

? Participate in the creation, publishing, and maintenance of Docker images

? Contribute to support documents, how-to’s and other technical articles in English

 

Education:

? B.Sc. or MSc in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field

Skills & Requirements:

? Strong technical background

? Strong, hands-on experience of both development and operations is a must

? Strong interpersonal, and communication skills and high attention to detail.

? Strong knowledge in cloud computing platform such as GCP, AWS and Alibaba

? Strong knowledge of Terraform

? Strong knowledge of Kubernetes

? Strong analytical, problem-solving, negotiation and organizational skills

? Ability to communicate with technical and business teams (all levels)

? Good knowledge of service delivery management field

 

Required experience:

? Experience with Anthos is a plus

? Experience with Istio and Envoy is a definite plus

? Experience with Apigee API Management is a plus

? Experience in software architecture and development lifecycle

? Hands on experience with technology concepts such as APIs, micro-services, Cloud hosting, CRM (e.g., Salesforce platform), ERP (e.g., SAP)

? Experience with Atlassian Suite mainly Confluence and Jira

? Good knowledge of agile methodology and frameworks such as Scrum and Kanban

? Fluent English required, Arabic is a plus

? Willingness & ability to travel

? Ability to work in a complex, fast-paced, distributed environment with high

Expectations

 

Other desired skills/areas of proficiency:

? System: Linux, TCP-IP, HTTP

? Cloud: AWS, GCP, Alibaba

? Containers: Docker, Kubernetes, Anthos, Istio, Envoy

? Languages: Go, Java, Bash, JavaScript

? Formats: JSON, XML

? Monitoring: Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana

? Automation: GitLab, Terraform, Ansible, Maven, Hashicorp Vault

? SCM: Git

? API: OpenAPI, REST, GraphQL

? Other: Zero Trust

About Sword:

Sword has 1 900+ IT/Digital & Software specialists present over five continents to accompany you in the growth of your organisation in the digital age.

As a leader in technological and digital transformation, Sword has since 2000 acquired a solid reputation in software publishing and in complex IT & business project management.

With Sword you have the guarantee of strong close and qualified local commitment, the aim of which is to optimise your processes and data.

Above all, our ambition is to build sustainably and foster the loyalty of our staff, our clients, and our partners by building on our values and our enthusiasm to accompany you throughout your projects.

https://www.sword-group.com/

 

 

 

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