DevOps Specialist m/f/d
Listed on 2026-09-20
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IT/Tech
SRE/Site Reliability, Cloud Computing: Infrastructure & Operations
Location:
Abu Dhabi, UAE
Join a technology-driven organization building and operating mission-critical digital platforms that serve large-scale internal and customer-facing services.
Location:
Abu Dhabi, UAE
Join a technology-driven organization building and operating mission-critical digital platforms that serve large-scale internal and customer-facing services.
We are seeking a hands-on Dev Ops Specialist to help design, automate, secure, and operate modern cloud-native platforms. This role is ideal for engineers who enjoy solving complex infrastructure challenges, building scalable automation, improving developer experience, and ensuring platform reliability at scale.
This position offers the opportunity to work with modern cloud technologies, Kubernetes platforms, Infrastructure-as-Code, Dev Ops automation, and production-grade systems within a highly collaborative engineering environment.
What You'll Be Doing- Design, build, automate, and support cloud-native infrastructure and platforms.
- Manage and improve Kubernetes environments across production and non-production systems.
- Develop and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform and related tooling.
- Design, implement, and optimize CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
- Support containerized workloads using Docker and Kubernetes.
- Implement Git Ops, automation, and platform engineering best practices.
- Monitor platform health, reliability, availability, and performance using modern observability solutions.
- Troubleshoot complex production incidents and perform root cause analysis.
- Collaborate with software engineering teams to improve deployment reliability, security, scalability, and developer experience.
- Improve operational excellence through automation, self-service capabilities, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Contribute to platform security, governance, and cloud operational standards.
- Must be immediately available, no notice period and within the UAE.
- Minimum 5 years of hands-on Dev Ops, SRE, Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering experience.
- Minimum 3 years of hands‑on Kubernetes administration and operations experience.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related discipline.
- Strong Linux systems administration and troubleshooting skills.
- Hands‑on experience with:
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- Terraform
- Git
- CI/CD platforms
- Cloud infrastructure
- Experience supporting production environments and critical business applications.
- Experience building automation solutions using Python, Bash, Shell scripting, or similar languages.
- Strong understanding of Infrastructure-as-Code principles and cloud-native architectures.
- Financial services, fintech, banking, telecommunications, or other highly regulated environments
Experience in one or more of the following:
- AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Git Lab CI/CD, Git Hub Actions, Azure Dev Ops, Jenkins
- Git Ops platforms such as ArgoCD or Flux
- Helm
- Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/Open Search, Loki, Datadog, New Relic, Splunk
- Karpenter, KEDA, Istio, Service Mesh technologies
- Dev Sec Ops practices and security automation
- Terraform Associate, CKA, CKAD, AWS/Azure/GCP certifications
We are particularly interested in engineers who:
- Remain highly hands‑on technically.
- Have managed Kubernetes platforms in real production environments.
- Enjoy solving infrastructure and reliability challenges.
- Have built CI/CD and automation solutions from the ground up.
- Take ownership of platform stability, operational excellence, and engineering quality.
- Thrive in collaborative, fast-moving environments.
Dev Ops Specialist (6-month contract) in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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