Agent Runtime Platform Architect

Halian | Managed Services, Recruitment and Contract Staffing Agency; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 320,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

Halian is seeking an Agent Runtime Platform Engineer to design and build the enterprise runtime foundation for AI agents and agentic applications in Abu Dhabi. The role focuses on platform engineering first, delivering secure, reusable runtime capabilities that enable teams to deploy agents across AKS, Kubernetes, and container platforms.

You will implement patterns, standards, templates, and documentation to accelerate development while ensuring observability, scalability, and cost control.

Qualifications

• Experience designing enterprise runtime foundations for AI agents.
• Hands-on with AKS, Kubernetes, and cloud-native runtimes.
• Knowledge of security, observability, and scalable platforms.

Responsibilities

• Agent Runtime Platform: Design and engineer runtime patterns for agent workloads across cloud-native environments.
• Platform Engineering Standards: Build reusable infrastructure patterns and platform APIs for provisioning and operating agent workloads.
• Agent Engineering Standards: Define standards for agent manifests, runtime configuration, and tool definitions.
• Secure Integration Patterns: Standardize how agents connect to model, MCP servers and enterprise APIs.
• Developer Self-Service: Provide templates, SDKs, documentation, and onboarding journeys for teams building agents.
• Operational Readiness: Ensure agent workloads are observable, scalable, and production-ready.

Skills

Platform engineering

Cloud-native runtime design

Security & observability

Tools

AKS

Azure Container Apps

Kubernetes

Terraform

GitHub Actions

APIs

Job description

Halian is seeking an Agent Runtime Platform Engineer to design and build the enterprise runtime foundation for AI agents and agentic applications in Abu Dhabi. The role focuses on platform engineering first, delivering secure, reusable runtime capabilities that enable teams to deploy agents across AKS, Kubernetes, and container platforms.

You will implement patterns, standards, templates, and documentation to accelerate development while ensuring observability, scalability, and cost control.