Cloud Platform Engineer – Azure Zone ,Terraform ,AI Infrastructure & Finops
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Urgent requirement for Cloud Platform Engineer – Azure Landing Zone, Terraform, AI Infrastructure & Finops is required for our banking clients in Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Building and scaling enterprise-grade Azure cloud environments from the ground up, with a strong focus on enabling AI-driven applications in a secure, cost-efficient way.
Key Responsibilities- Design landing zone architectures aligned to CAF and WAF for banking workloads, define network, identity, security and governance baselines for multi-subscription environments, and ensure compliance with UAE Central Bank regulations, ISO 27001 and PCI-DSS.
- Build Terraform/Bicep-driven infrastructure with modular, reusable code; maintain full Git Ops lifecycle; enforce Azure Policy, tagging and RBAC at scale.
- Integrate Azure services such as OpenAI, Azure AI Search, Cognitive Services and Azure ML; enable secure connectivity to data sources and vector databases; implement guardrails for data privacy and model governance.
- Manage API gateways with Azure APIM or Kong; configure secure connectivity via VNet, Private Endpoints, Express Route and Azure Firewall; implement service mesh and ingress patterns for microservices.
- Optimize cloud spend through Fin Ops practices (budgets, anomaly detection, rightsizing, reserved instances); provide cost transparency to application teams and enforce chargeback/showback models.
- Ensure robust hub‑spoke networking, DNS and hybrid connectivity; set up centralized monitoring with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics and Grafana; build automated CI/CD pipelines in Azure Dev Ops; enable self‑service for application teams at scale.
- Implement Key Vault, Defender for Cloud, Sentinel and zero‑trust principles; design for high‑availability and disaster recovery with defined RTO/RPO; conduct DR drills and maintain platform SLAs.
7+ years of experience in cloud engineering with 4+ years focused on Azure, and 2+ years in banking/FSI or other regulated industries.
- Expertise in Terraform, Bicep, Azure Networking, Azure Policy, AKS, APIM, Azure OpenAI and Azure AI Search.
- Strong Python/Power Shell skills for automation.
- Experience with Fin Ops tools such as Azure Cost Management, Cloud Health or similar.
Skills:
infrastructure, cloud, azure.
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