Azure Cloud Engineer – IaC, DevOps & AKS Expert

Kingston Stanley; Dubai; On-site; AED 223,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Kingston Stanley in Dubai is seeking a highly hands-on IT Cloud Engineer to own a 100% Microsoft Azure IaC cloud environment and lead automation initiatives.

This role targets automation, cloud engineering, DevOps, Kubernetes, and AI-assisted development, with strong Terraform/Terragrunt, AKS, Azure DevOps Pipelines, and Azure networking expertise. Must have UAE driving license and operate within a senior team.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure across multiple subscriptions.
• Experience with Terraform and Terragrunt at scale with modular architecture.
• Azure DevOps Pipelines experience including YAML and templates.
• Hands-on AKS and Helm experience.
• Azure networking knowledge including App Gateway, Azure Firewall, VPN Gateway, Private Endpoints and DNS.
• PowerShell skills with Bash and Python knowledge.
• Experience with Microsoft Sentinel, Application Insights and Key Vault.
• Strong knowledge of Active Directory / Entra ID, DNS and DHCP.
• Comfortable using AI coding assistants such as ChatGPT, Claude or Copilot.

Responsibilities

• Own a modern cloud environment in Microsoft Azure with IaC focus.
• Drive automation and DevOps practices within a senior engineering team.
• Collaborate on Kubernetes-based deployment and networking configurations.
• Provide secure infrastructure and monitoring through Sentinel, Key Vault, and App Gateway.

Skills

Microsoft Azure

Terraform

Terragrunt

Azure DevOps Pipelines

AKS

Helm

Azure Networking

PowerShell

Bash

Python

Microsoft Sentinel

Application Insights

Key Vault

Active Directory / Entra ID

Tools

Terraform

Terragrunt

Azure DevOps

AKS

Helm

App Gateway

Azure Firewall

VPN Gateway

Private Endpoints

DNS

Job description

Kingston Stanley in Dubai is seeking a highly hands-on IT Cloud Engineer to own a 100% Microsoft Azure IaC cloud environment and lead automation initiatives.

This role targets automation, cloud engineering, DevOps, Kubernetes, and AI-assisted development, with strong Terraform/Terragrunt, AKS, Azure DevOps Pipelines, and Azure networking expertise. Must have UAE driving license and operate within a senior team.