Senior DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer
Summary
Hands-on Senior DevOps/SRE in Abu Dhabi building and operating the delivery and runtime foundations for enterprise applications and AI-enabled products: CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes workloads, infrastructure-as-code, observability, and incident response, with Azure strongly preferred.
We are seeking a hands-on Senior DevOps Site Reliability Engineer to build and operate the delivery and runtime foundations for a portfolio of modern enterprise applications workflow platforms and AI-enabled products This is not primarily an infrastructure-administration role You will work directly with software engineers to create reliable secure and automated paths from code to production You will own deployment automation runtime reliability observability infrastructure-as-code and operational readiness across applications that integrate with critical enterprise systems
What You Will Own
Platform amp Infrastructure
Build and maintain cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code Design secure repeatable environments across development test staging and production Manage containerized workloads and Kubernetes-based deployments where appropriate Define standard application deployment patterns for backend frontend and AI services Implement secure secrets and configuration management Support network identity and connectivity requirements for enterprise integrations
CI CD amp Developer Productivity
Build automated CI CD pipelines Standardize build test security scanning and deployment processes Automate environment provisioning and configuration Reduce manual deployment steps and production configuration drift Work closely with engineering teams to improve release frequency and reliability
Reliability amp Observability
Establish logging metrics tracing and alerting Define service-level indicators and operational thresholds Build dashboards for system health and application performance Implement incident-response and production-support practices Design for graceful degradation retries failover and recovery Lead root-cause analysis of production incidents
Security amp Operational Controls
Implement least-privilege access and secure deployment patterns Support auditability of infrastructure and production changes Integrate security checks into delivery pipelines Work with security and infrastructure teams to meet enterprise control requirements
Resilience
Support business continuity and disaster-recovery design Define backup restore and recovery procedures Test operational recovery rather than relying solely on documented plans
- 6+ years in DevOps, SRE, platform engineering or cloud infrastructure.
- Strong production experience with Azure, AWS or GCP; Azure strongly preferred.
- Docker and Kubernetes.
- Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Bicep, Pulumi or equivalent.
- CI/CD using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI or similar.
- Strong Linux and networking fundamentals.
- Observability tooling and distributed-system troubleshooting.
- Secure secrets, identity and access-management patterns.
- Production incident-management experience.
- Scripting/programming capability in Python, Go, Bash or equivalent.
- Strong AdvantageAzure Kubernetes Service.
- Azure Service Bus, API Management, Key Vault and related Azure services.
- Enterprise integration platforms.
- SAP-connected environments.
- AI/LLM application deployment.
- Regulated or government environments.
- High-availability and disaster-recovery architecture.