DevOps Engineer (UAE National) (m/f/d)
Halian | Managed Services, Recruitment Agency & Contract Staffing DevOps Engineer (UAE National) (m/f/d)
Summary
A DevOps engineer role in Abu Dhabi supporting cloud-native platforms for UAE financial technology initiatives. Day to day involves managing production environments, running Docker/Kubernetes workloads, building CI/CD pipelines, monitoring platform health, and automating with Bash and Python. Open only to UAE Nationals with a Family Book.
Shape the Future of UAE Financial Technology
We are partnering with a highly strategic technology organization driving large-scale digital transformation initiatives across the UAE's financial ecosystem.
This is an opportunity to join a high-caliber engineering team building and supporting mission-critical platforms that contribute to the future of digital payments, financial services innovation, cloud-native platforms, and next-generation technology infrastructure.
If you are passionate about DevOps, automation, cloud technologies, and modern engineering practices, this role provides exposure to large-scale production environments and some of the most innovative technology initiatives in the region.
What You'll Be Working On
- Supporting cloud-native platforms powering critical financial technology services.
- Managing and enhancing production environments to ensure reliability, scalability, and performance.
- Deploying and operating containerized workloads using Docker and Kubernetes.
- Building and improving CI/CD pipelines to accelerate software delivery.
- Automating operational processes through Bash and Python scripting.
- Monitoring platform health and proactively resolving infrastructure issues.
- Collaborating with software engineers, architects, security teams, and platform specialists to deliver high-quality solutions.
- Contributing to infrastructure modernization and engineering best practices.
What We're Looking For
- UAE National (Family Book required).
- Minimum 2 years of hands-on DevOps experience in a current role.
- Experience supporting live production environments.
- Strong Linux administration skills.
- Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience working with Jenkins or other CI/CD platforms.
- Practical scripting experience using Bash and/or Python.
- Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
- Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.
Nice to Have
- Azure or cloud platform exposure.
- Terraform or Infrastructure as Code experience.
- Monitoring and observability tools.
- Exposure to Banking, FinTech, or Insurance environments.
Why Join?
- Opportunity to contribute to nationally significant technology initiatives.
- Exposure to enterprise-scale cloud and platform engineering environments.
- Work alongside experienced engineering and technology leaders.
- Learn from complex, high-availability production environments.
- Strong career growth and development opportunities within a rapidly evolving technology landscape.