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<br /> <p>The Emirates Group is a highly profitable business with annual revenue of approximately US$ 15.6 billion and over 50,000 employees. The Group comprises of dnata, the fourth largest combined air services provider in the world and Emirates, the Group's rapidly expanding and award winning international airline. Emirates global network now sees it flying to over 121 destinations across 6 continents, operating a modern fleet of over 170 wide-bodied aircraft. Today the airline has orders worth over US$ 84 billion for 233 more of the latest aircraft, with plans to operate to many more destinations in the months and years ahead. Essential to our continued business success as we expand will be the on-going employment of high quality people to join our multi-cultural team of over 167 nationalities. <br /> <br />Dubai, a tourism centre and modern cosmopolitan city with high standards of healthcare, education and leisure pursuits for residents offers those we hire one of the most desirable lifestyle locations in the world. In addition to lifestyle and tax free salary benefits, the Emirates Group also offers professional development opportunities to help employees develop new skills and grow their careers successfully. Discover your future!<b> <br /> <br />The Position:</b> </p><p>. To design & Support IT- solutions for the EK Group. Working as part of a design & Support team, the Senior Technical Engineer will design, develop, support and deliver robust and cost effective solutions for both Business and IT led initiatives including solution development and cost estimations, Configuration and Deployment & Business Case Development & Approval. <br />To support, contribute and ensure solution compliance to the enterprise architecture, production processes, QMS and other EG-IT standards. <br /> <br /><b>Job Outline:</b> <b> </b></p><p><b> <br /></b>. Provide expert technical consultancy and guidance to EG-IT dealing within the technology area and act as lead technical member in the Project team delivering the work packages assigned. <br />. Develop IT Solutions that meet customer requirements. Ensure that the design is robust, appropriate and of high quality and conforming to Corporate standards and in line with the technical strategy. <br />. Ensure that the developed architecture/solution meets the service level requirements in terms of expected availability, capacity, continuity, security, performance and reliability. <br />. Collaborate with other EG-IT Technology Teams to implement on-going monitoring of the relevant technology to ensure severity 1 & 2 Incidents are configured within EMS. <br />. Collaborate with EG-IT to identify and define standards and metrics on the relevant technology. Monitor current performance and to ensure appropriate levels of capacity, quality, service level and resources and solutions are optimally tuned. <br />. Provide guidance to Project managers / Technology Team Managers for solution definition, technical design and development of in house developed solutions. These are to be delivered as per agreed costs and timescales to meet signed off functional, technical and process requirements. <br />. Ensure that assigned problems are defined and analysed in line with the Problem Management Process. Ensure that solutions to problems meet the architectural and security standards within the technology area and impact to the business is minimised. <br />. Ensure that assigned incidents are resolved within the agreed Service Levels and where applicable, workarounds are provided to minimise business impact and Own & manage changes within the Technology Area to ensure least impact on the business. <br />. Publish and maintain high quality documentation for technology area. Working within the standard templates and documentation guidelines which includes detailed design, configuration details, support procedures, operations manuals and deployment architecture. <br />. Manage End of Life replacement of equipment and/or software within the technology area to ensure conformance to technical standards and support the Technology initiatives and directions. <br /> <br /> <br /><b>Salary & Benefits:</b> </p><p>We offer an attractive tax-free salary, paid in Dirhams, the local currency of the UAE. The Dirham is linked to the Special Drawing Right of the International Monetary Fund. It has been held constant against the US dollar since the end of 1980 at a mid-rate of approximately US$1= Dh3.66. Besides travel benefits normally associated with an airline, more information on employee benefits is available within the 'Working Here' section of this site. By viewing the 'Dubai Lifestyle' section in the site you can also consider the benefits of Dubai as a location to live and work in. <br /> <br /> <br /><b>Qualifications:</b> </p><p><b></b> <br />. Degree or Honours (12 3 or equivalent) <br />. Degree in a subject relevant to IT <br />. Specialised technical experience, within a business IT environment. </p><p> <br /><b>Skills & Knowledge: </b><b> </b></p><p><b> <br /></b>. Sound understanding of Domain registration and renewal and payment gateways. <br />. Good understanding of Microsoft Architecture ( .NET , Internet Information Server 6/7 , Web Services , etc ) <br />. Skilled administration of Web Hosting Infrastructure , Systems integration , Web security and Internet technologies ( Caching, CDN , Load Balancing, SEO , etc ) <br />. Working knowledge on major infrastructure technologies in large enterprises - LAN/WAN/WLAN networks, heterogeneous server operating systems from Microsoft and Linux, Databases from Microsoft/Oracle, leading application server technologies including IIS, Jboss and Weblogic. </p><p> <br /><b>Experience: </b><b> </b></p><p><b> <br /></b>. Information Technology 5 Years <br /> <br /> <br /><b>To Apply:</b> </p><p>To express your interest in the above vacancy please apply on-line by clicking below, and complete our application form. We will then consider your application and contact you should we wish to shortlist you for an interview. Should you not receive an invitation for an interview within 5 weeks please assume that on this occasion you have been unsuccessful. We will retain your details for 12 months unless advised otherwise and re-consider you for future opportunities as they arise. Please also note that if you are not shortlisted you can also update your application at anytime and apply for other opportunities. Thank you for your interest in a career with the Emirates Group. </p> Please click the Apply now button and search for reference:STE/FP/20930