Azure AI Platform Engineer - Scale & Secure Cloud

D4 Insight; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 350,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

D4 Insight in Abu Dhabi is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design, build, and scale the Azure AI Platform as a reusable enterprise product. The role focuses on cloud-native platform capabilities and hybrid-cloud ecosystems for a large financial enterprise.

You will own AI service operationalization, security, reusable platform components, and automated infrastructure controls, with hands-on duties across AKS, Azure OpenAI, and API management.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience with the Azure Cloud Platform.
• Proficient in Terraform-driven infrastructure and automated testing.
• Hands-on experience with AKS, Azure Container Apps, and Kubernetes.
• Experience implementing security and compliance through policy-as-code.
• Familiarity with Azure OpenAI Service and Azure AI Foundry.

Responsibilities

• Architect and deploy production-ready modular Azure AI platform capabilities.
• Define platform boundaries, service contracts, tenancy patterns, scaling models, and secure integration standards.
• Build shared AI service capabilities by standardizing access to: Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search, Document Intelligence, and agent/orchestration patterns.
• Standardize application consumption through APIs, SDKs, templates, and reference implementations.
• Define reusable Terraform modules and templated infrastructure patterns.
• Build standardized network, identity, security, tagging, and observability capabilities into infrastructure provisioning.
• Implement policy-as-code and automated validation for naming, approved SKUs, network isolation, and compliance.
• Provide self-service provisioning through GitHub Actions or platform APIs.
• Establish reusable platform patterns, release management, documentation, and onboarding journeys.
• Engineer production runtimes on AKS and Azure Container Apps for APIs, agents, MCP servers, and asynchronous workloads.
• Manage API lifecycles using Azure API Management and Kong.

Skills

Azure Cloud Platform

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Azure OpenAI Service

Azure AI Foundry

AKS

Azure Container Apps

Kubernetes

Security & Compliance Automation

Platform Architecture

Tools

Azure API Management

Kong

Job description

D4 Insight in Abu Dhabi is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design, build, and scale the Azure AI Platform as a reusable enterprise product. The role focuses on cloud-native platform capabilities and hybrid-cloud ecosystems for a large financial enterprise.

You will own AI service operationalization, security, reusable platform components, and automated infrastructure controls, with hands-on duties across AKS, Azure OpenAI, and API management.