DevOps / Cloud Engineer (Kubernetes & AI Platforms)
Summary
Operate and secure six segregated Kubernetes environments for an AI platform in a UAE sovereign cloud, handling CI/CD, monitoring, backup/DR, and security operations.
Full-time
Mid-level
AI & Digital Transformation
5+ years
Job Description
Stand up and operate the program's environments in a government-approved UAE sovereign environment: containerized deployment, CI/CD, monitoring, backup/DR and security operations support across six segregated environments from development to production.
Key Responsibilities
- Provision and maintain the six program environments with production data segregation.
- Build and operate CI/CD with controlled releases, rollback and audit evidence.
- Operate monitoring, alerting, backup/DR drills and capacity management including GPU/NPU workloads.
- Forward audit and security events to the client-approved SOC/SIEM; support incident response.
- Support VAPT cycles and close infrastructure findings.
Requirements
- 5+ years in DevOps, platform or infrastructure engineering.
- Experience with sovereign, government or private-cloud environments; FedNet exposure is an advantage.
- Experience operating GPU-backed AI workloads is an advantage.
- Containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), infrastructure-as-code.
- CI/CD pipelines, release management, rollback and environment segregation.
- Monitoring, logging and SIEM forwarding (Syslog, API, event streaming).
- Backup, restore and DR operation to agreed RPO/RTO targets.
- Secrets management, network segmentation and hardening.