Assistant Vice President - Technology (DevOps Engineer)

The DevOps Engineer is responsible for the system to work as front liners. Their role is to define strategy and lead the implementation of DevSecOps pipelines with Mashreq digital and non-digital journeys. Orchestrates build and release pipelines and ensure seamless application promotion for all the digital squads. Provide necessary support to Agile coach, scrum master, development squads and automate complete rollouts including non-production and production for all the applications which includes APIs, Database promotions as well. Also ensure the container platform configuration setup and availability in azure cloud environment.

Key Result Areas

• Uses his/her technical expertise and experience to contribute to all sprint events (planning, refinements, retrospectives, demos)

  
  

• Consults with the team about what is needed to fulfil the functional and non-functional requirements of the IT product to be build and released 

  
  

• Define and orchestrate the DevOps for the IT product, Enable automated the unit test in line with the customer’s wishes and IT area’s internal ambitions and reviews colleagues’ IT products. 

  
  

• Define, designs and enable automated builds and automated tests IT products (functional, performance, resilience and security tests). 

  
  

• Performs Life Cycle Management (including decommissioning) for IT products under management

  
  

• Define and Improves the Continuous Delivery process

  
  

• Sets up the IT environment, deploys the IT product on the IT infrastructure and implements the required changes

  
  

• Designing, building, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Automating application, API, and database deployments
• Kubernetes cluster setup, configuration, and ingress management (NGINX/NGINX+)
• Cloud-based application deployments (Java, ReactJS, NodeJS, .NET Core)
• Writing and maintaining automation scripts using Python and shell scripting
• Implementing Infrastructure as Code and configuration management
• Integrating security, testing, and quality gates into pipelines
• Troubleshooting, debugging, and root-cause analysis
• Implementing database automation using Liquibase and Flyway
• Managing middleware and on‑premise deployment automation
• Collaborating effectively with cross‑functional agile teams
• Documentation and traceability of deployment and testing activities

• Hands-on experience with automated non-production and production deployments
• Experience working in large-scale enterprise or regulated environments
• Experience supporting agile teams and meeting sprint commitments
• Experience with cloud-native, hybrid, and on‑premise environments
• Experience in CI/CD pipeline standardization and template-based delivery
• Experience with Kubernetes-based platforms and containerized workloads
• Experience integrating multiple DevOps, security, and testing tools
• Experience in middleware platforms such as WebSphere, JBoss, BPM, IIS, and IIB
• Experience managing Linux-based systems in production environments

• DevSecOps principles, CI/CD architecture, and release management
• Cloud platforms: Azure, AWS, and Cloud Pak DevOps
• Containerization and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes (AKS/EKS/OpenShift)
• Infrastructure as Code concepts and tools (Terraform, Ansible)
• DevOps toolchain integration (SonarQube, Veracode, Twistlock, HashiCorp Vault)
• Cloud‑native and traditional application architectures
• Database concepts for SQL and NoSQL systems
• API management and API gateway architectures
• Logging, monitoring, and observability practices (Splunk, ELK, EFK)
• Agile and Scrum delivery methodologies
• Linux operating systems (RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu)