Senior DevOps Engineer

FORTE CLOUD is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to help modernize businesses in the Middle East and Africa. They specialize in cloud solutions and aim to seamlessly integrate organizations through the cloud. The role involves designing and deploying cloud infrastructure, migrating workloads, and ensuring system performance and security.

Requirements

• Proven experience in cloud infrastructure design and deployment on major hyperscaler platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Hands-on experience in cloud migration projects including workload assessment, planning, and execution
• Strong proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation
• Expertise in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, or CodePipeline
• Solid knowledge of Linux/Unix systems administration, networking, and security best practices
• Solid knowledge of containerization and orchestration (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, EKS, AKS)
• Ability to assess existing environments and recommend improvements
• Experience in monitoring, logging, and alerting using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, or ELK Stack
• Strong scripting skills (e.g., Python, Bash, PowerShell)
• Familiarity with infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible)
• Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience with Red Hat OpenShift and Rancher is a huge plus
• Good understanding of microservice architectures and best practices for running in a container orchestration environment
• Experience with CI/CD orchestration tools for release and deployment
• Strong experience in Windows & Linux administration, performance monitoring, and debugging
• Experience with server, and application-status monitoring using cloud native tools or 3rd party
• Working knowledge of different database engines
• Understanding of High Availability and Disaster Recovery and other business continuity solutions
• Experience with open-source tools and platforms is a plus
• Knowledge of networking, security, and virtual hosting technologies
• At least 3x of public cloud certifications from AWS, Azure or GCP