Infrastructure & Platform Engineer – Cloud Operations | UAE

We are actively seeking an experienced, high-caliber, and technical Infrastructure & Platform Engineer specializing in Cloud Operations with 6 to 12+ years of professional experience in banking infrastructure, cloud operations, and platform engineering to join our major banking project team in Abu Dhabi, UAE on a full-time permanent on-site basis (immediate joiners preferred). In this critical cloud and platform reliability role, you will be responsible for building, scaling, and securing enterprise cloud environments, managing Kubernetes and Open Shift orchestration platforms, automating infrastructure provisioning via Terraform and Git Ops, and driving AI-assisted operational excellence.

You will leverage your deep specialist expertise in Microsoft Azure, container orchestration, infrastructure as code, high-availability architecture, and AIOps to deliver uncompromised platform stability and secure digital banking transformation. This opportunity offers competitive compensation, executive technical visibility, and exceptional career growth prospects within a premier global technology and banking solutions enterprise.

As an Infrastructure & Platform Engineer – Cloud Operations supporting a premier banking project in Abu Dhabi, UAE, you will take full operational, tactical, and technical ownership of enterprise cloud architecture, Kubernetes/Open Shift cluster management, Terraform automation, and resilient cloud-native operations. Your day-to-day responsibilities include architecting scalable infrastructure on Azure, deploying containerized core banking workloads, implementing Git Ops deployment pipelines, ensuring infrastructure security hardening and compliance, monitoring high-availability systems, and leveraging AIOps for intelligent log analysis and incident correlation.

You will utilize your proactive troubleshooting and architectural engineering skills to maintain rigorous service level agreements and drive secure digital transformation.

• Architect, deploy, configure, and maintain scalable enterprise cloud infrastructure and platform operations on Microsoft Azure.
• Manage, administer, and optimize container orchestration platforms including Kubernetes and Red Hat Open Shift across multi-environment clusters.
• Implement and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) pipelines, automated provisioning, and Git Ops workflows using Terraform and version control tools.
• Ensure high availability, horizontal scalability, advanced monitoring, observability, capacity planning, and robust disaster recovery across banking platforms.
• Support and integrate API architectures, event-streaming platforms, and core banking integration infrastructure for seamless digital transformation.
• Execute comprehensive infrastructure security hardening, vulnerability remediation, access control policies, and resilient backup operations.
• Leverage AIOps and AI-assisted operational toolsets for automated log analysis, incident correlation, runbook execution support, and infrastructure-code reviews.
• Author meticulous technical architecture blueprints, operational runbooks, disaster recovery strategies, and platform compliance documentation.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Minimum of 6 to 12+ years of progressive professional experience in banking infrastructure, cloud operations, or platform engineering.
• Strong, demonstrable hands‑on operational expertise in Microsoft Azure cloud services and enterprise infrastructure management.
• Deep practical knowledge of container orchestration platforms including Kubernetes and Red Hat Open…