Azure Cloud Foundation Engineer — Platform & FinOps

Confidential; Abu Dhabi Emirate; On-site; AED 360,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

Confidential is building a digital-first, AI-enabled financial services organisation in the UAE. We seek a Cloud Foundation Engineer to help shape the Azure cloud platform from day one, including landing zones, governance, and automation. You will enable engineering teams to consume cloud services securely at scale.

The role focuses on cloud foundations, IaC with Terraform, and cost governance, in a regulated banking-like environment, with early-stage growth and strong institutional backing.

Qualifications

• 6+ years hands-on cloud or platform engineering in regulated environments.
• Strong Azure experience including landing zones, Azure Policy, Entra, and cloud networking.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and module development.
• Experience with GitOps delivery, CI/CD pipelines, and production cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain Azure landing zones, tenancy architecture, and automated environment provisioning.
• Implement policy-as-code guardrails using Azure Policy and governance frameworks.
• Engineer cloud identity services using Entra and privileged access controls.
• Build and maintain cloud networking foundations including hub-and-spoke architectures and private endpoints.
• Develop and manage reusable Terraform modules and infrastructure automation capabilities.
• Implement FinOps tooling, cloud cost governance, monitoring, drift detection, and automated remediation.

Skills

Azure

Terraform

GitOps

CI/CD

FinOps

Cloud Security

Tools

Terraform

Job description

Confidential is building a digital-first, AI-enabled financial services organisation in the UAE. We seek a Cloud Foundation Engineer to help shape the Azure cloud platform from day one, including landing zones, governance, and automation. You will enable engineering teams to consume cloud services securely at scale.

The role focuses on cloud foundations, IaC with Terraform, and cost governance, in a regulated banking-like environment, with early-stage growth and strong institutional backing.