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Emirates Group
Principal Engineer Jobs in Dubai, UAE
In this role you will:
- Develop IT solutions that meet customer requirements. Ensure that the design is robust, appropriate, and high-quality conforming to corporate standards and in line with the technology strategy. Own, manage, and maintain solution designs of complex/large projects, products, environments, or platforms.
- Provide expert technical consultancy and guidance within the technology domain and act as a lead technical expert in delivering infrastructure solutions.
- Contribute to the development and maintenance of Architecture Guiding Principles, drawing on architectural knowledge and experience.
- Lead corporate IT Standards, analysing and understanding the potential impact of competing technologies, assessing their strategic significance, defining their strategic role and scope, roadmap, and relationship to existing standards, and periodically reviewing our entire IT estate in the context of those standards.
- Track technology and business innovations, determine how they relate to our IT strategy, existing standards, platforms, and patterns, and lead the work to amend existing assets and/or create new assets to reflect changes in the technology landscape.
- Ensure implemented solutions meet the service level requirements in terms of expected availability, capacity, continuity, security, performance, and reliability. Identify and define standards and metrics on the relevant technology. Monitor current performance and ensure appropriate levels of capacity, quality, service level, and resources and solutions are optimally tuned.
- Publish and maintain high-quality documentation for the technology area. Working within the standard templates and documentation guidelines which includes detailed design, configuration details, support procedures, operations manuals, and architecture deployment.
- Manage the End of Life replacement of equipment and/or software within the technology domain to ensure conformance to technical standards and support the technology initiatives and directions. Ensure operational and information security risks are identified, tracked, and mitigated promptly.
- Lead solution and technical design review, ensuring that projects are following agreed corporate strategic direction and alignment to architectural standards and patterns.
- Provide expert advice to projects on technical and architectural standards, guiding them on the need to raise exception requests, develop new or amended standards, and on the appropriate use of architectural patterns manage, direct, inspire, and coach the work and capability of STE and operational resources as required and engage in, and lead a much wider virtual team consisting of at least 20 individuals.
Qualifications & Experience
To be considered for this role, you must meet the below requirements:
- Degree or Honours (12+3 or equivalent) in a relevant field such as Computer Science, Computational Mathematics, Computer Engineering or Software Engineering.
- 8+ Years working in a related IT Engineering.
Knowledge/Skills
- Expertise in developing, implementing, and maintaining network automation solutions using infrastructure automation frameworks to enable seamless provisioning and management of network infrastructure.
- Strong understanding of software-defined networking (SDN) concepts and automation techniques, utilizing scripting and API-driven approaches to ensure efficient, scalable, and secure network operations.
- Proficiency in designing and managing multi-tenant, software-defined networking architectures, ensuring secure, high-performance connectivity and optimized traffic flow across infrastructure environments.
- Knowledge of network provisioning automation for virtualized and containerized workloads, integrating with cloud-native and container orchestration platforms to enhance scalability and agility.
- Experience in developing API-driven network automation workflows, enabling self-service provisioning and dynamic infrastructure management to improve operational efficiency.
To apply for this job please visit www.emiratesgroupcareers.com.
