Oman Housing Bank | بنك الإسكان العُماني
Digital Operations Engineer
Oman Housing Bank | بنك الإسكان العُمانيOman7 days ago
Full-timeStrategy/Planning

Job Purpose:

The Digital Operations Engineer manages the Bank’s Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Kubernetes environments to ensure stability, security, and scalability of digital banking services. He/She maintains 99.9%+ service uptime, optimizes infrastructure performance and cost, and enforces CI/CD best practices across digital platforms. The Digital Operations Engineer implements monitoring and observability tools, builds infrastructure as code, and responds to incidents with precision to minimize disruption. He/She enables development teams with robust cloud-native solutions that support the Bank’s innovation and digital transformation goals.


Key Accountabilities:

  • Manages and optimizes the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) environment to ensure stability, scalability, and cost-efficiency.
  • Deploys and maintains Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE) clusters for containerized workloads.
  • Implements infrastructure as code using Terraform to enable consistent and repeatable infrastructure provisioning.
  • Builds and maintains CI/CD pipelines for React Native, Flutter, React, and Node.js applications, supporting automated deployment workflows.
  • Monitors production systems using Prometheus, Grafana, and OCI Monitoring to ensure proactive performance tracking and incident detection.
  • Responds to production incidents, performs root cause analysis, and supports on-call incident handling rotation.
  • Implements and tracks Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and error budgets to uphold service reliability standards.
  • Manages Oracle Autonomous Database instances, including performance tuning and query optimization.
  • Configures OCI networking components such as Virtual Cloud Networks (VCNs), load balancers, and security groups to ensure secure and efficient connectivity.
  • Implements backup, restore, and disaster recovery procedures to support business continuity and data protection.
  • Optimizes cloud resource utilization and cost efficiency through proactive rightsizing and monitoring.
  • Configures auto-scaling policies to ensure high availability of applications and infrastructure.
  • Manages secrets and encryption keys using OCI Vault to enforce secure credential management.
  • Implements centralized logging using the ELK stack for efficient log aggregation and analysis.
  • Supports mobile application packaging and deployment to the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.
  • Collaborates with development and testing teams to execute blue-green and canary deployment strategies.
  • Troubleshoots infrastructure and application performance issues to minimize downtime and improve user experience.
  • Creates and maintains detailed operational documentation and runbooks for repeatable processes and incident resolution.
  • Utilizes AI-powered tools for infrastructure design validation, performance insights, and troubleshooting.
  • Ensures cross-platform CI/CD pipelines are maintained across all major digital touchpoints, including web, mobile, and backend services.


Qualifications and Experience:

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, or a related field.
  • Professional certification in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Kubernetes Administration.
  • Minimum of 5 years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or cloud infrastructure experience
  • Hands on experience in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), CI/CD Pipeline (Web and/ or mobile applications), Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Kubernetes Administration.
  • A proven track record of executing similar technical mandates in Banking, fintech, or a regulated industry.
  • Ability to work under pressure during production incidents with on-call and rotation-based availability.
  • Familiarity with mobile app deployment processes (iOS/Android) is desired.


Key Skills & Competencies:

  • Strong Linux/Unix system administration skills
  • Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
  • Strong communication and documentation abilities
  • Experienced across multiple language ecosystems (Node.js npm, Dart pub)
  • Advanced Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI Architect, Operations) skills
  • Excellent Kubernetes Administrator (CKA, CKAD) skills.
  • Skilled in Oracle Autonomous Database administration components.
  • Experienced level of creating and managing Helm charts for Kubernetes
  • Good abilities in using service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd)
  • Hands-on experience with GitOps tools (ArgoCD, Flux)
  • Strong capacity planning and forecasting skills
  • Good expertise in cloud cost optimization strategies
  • Experienced in disaster recovery planning
  • Advanced skills in banking or financial services infrastructure
  • Proficient with APM tools (New Relic, Datadog, Dynatrace)
  • Good Operational knowledge of message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ)
  • Skilled in load testing tools (k6, Gatling)
  • Experienced skills in deploying mobile apps via App Store Connect and Google Play Console.
  • Good skills in build systems (npm for React Native/Node.js, pub for Flutter)


Applicants who are meeting the job requirements will be contacted.


** Applications will be accepted until 2-Nov-2025 at 2:00 P.M

Submissions received after this date and time will not be considered **

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