Lead Azure DevOps /SRE Engineer
Summary
Lead the design and delivery of Azure DevOps and SRE practices, including AKS clusters, Terraform/Ansible IaC, and CI/CD pipelines for production platforms.
We're hiring a Senior Lead – Azure DevOps / SRE Engineer to own architecture delivery across our Azure estate leading AKS platform engineering, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform & Ansible), Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines, and release management/SRE practices.
Immediate joiners or those who can join within 2 weeks preferred
Availability: Candidates must be currently based in UAE
Key Responsibilities
- Deliver production-ready platforms from architecture designs (security, networking, identity)
- Design, operate, and scale AKS clusters (upgrades, hardening, workload isolation)
- Build IaC frameworks using Terraform and Ansible
- Engineer multi-stage Azure DevOps pipelines with approval gates and rollback patterns
- Own release management — planning, promotion, verification, rollback readiness
- Automate workflows using Python, Bash, PowerShell
- Support Linux and Windows Server environments
- Define SLIs/SLOs, lead incident response and postmortems
Required Skills
- Expert-level Terraform and Azure DevOps pipeline engineering
- Strong Ansible, Docker, and Helm experience
- Strong scripting (Python, Bash, PowerShell)
- Linux and Windows Server operations
- Observability/monitoring at scale
- Experience in regulated environments
- CKA / Terraform Associate / MS DevOps Engineer Expert certifications