Azure DevOps Engineer - Lead

NorthBay Solutions LLC; Dubai; On-site; AED 420,000 - 660,000; Full time

Job summary

NorthBay Solutions LLC is seeking a Lead DevOps Engineer (Azure Terraform) to drive cloud DevOps practices and ML deployment strategies in Abu Dhabi, UAE. The role involves designing scalable CI/CD pipelines, managing Terraform-based infrastructure, and leading Kubernetes operations for large production environments.

The candidate should have extensive experience in DevOps/MLOps, with strong skills in Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Terraform, and Kubernetes, and a penchant for ML model

Qualifications

• 8 to 12 years of experience in DevOps and/or MLOps roles.
• Proficient in CI/CD tools: Jenkins GitHub Actions Azure DevOps.
• Strong expertise in Terraform for large environments.
• Hands-on Kubernetes in large clusters with workload distribution and autoscaling.
• Strong understanding of Docker and microservices architecture.
• Scripting in Bash and Python.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and manage CI/CD pipelines.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform.
• Manage and scale Kubernetes clusters for production environments.
• Ensure cloud infrastructure is secure, optimized and monitored.
• Collaborate with data science teams to deploy ML models.
• Implement MLOps practices including model versioning and monitoring.
• Build automated ML pipelines to streamline model lifecycle.

Skills

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

Terraform

Kubernetes

Docker

Python

Bash

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Docker

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

Job description

Job Title: Lead DevOps Engineer (Azure Terraform)

Employment Type: Full-time

Location: Abu Dhabi (UAE)

Note: This role requires flexibility to relocate to Abu Dhabi (UAE) for onsite client requirements.

About the Role:

NorthBay a leading AWS Premier Partner is seeking a highly skilled Lead DevOps Engineer (Azure Terraform) to join its growing cloud and AI engineering team. This role is ideal for candidates with a strong foundation in cloud DevOps practices and a passion for implementing scalable MLOps solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design implement and manage CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform
• Manage and scale container orchestration environments using Kubernetes including experience with larger production-grade clusters
• Ensure cloud infrastructure is optimized secure and monitored effectively
• Collaborate with data science teams to support ML model deployment and operationalization
• Implement MLOps best practices including model versioning deployment strategies (e.g. blue-green) monitoring (data drift concept drift) and experiment tracking (e.g. MLflow)
• Build and maintain automated ML pipelines to streamline model lifecycle management

Required Skills:

• 8 to 12 years of experience in DevOps and/or MLOps roles
• Proficient in CI/CD tools: Jenkins GitHub Actions Azure DevOps
• Strong expertise in Terraform including managing and scaling infrastructure across large environments
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes in larger clusters including workload distribution autoscaling and cluster monitoring
• Strong understanding of containerization technologies (Docker) and microservices architecture
• Solid grasp of cloud networking security best practices and observability
• Scripting proficiency in Bash and Python

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with MLflow TFX Kubeflow or SageMaker Pipelines
• Knowledge of model performance monitoring and ML system reliabilityFamiliarity with AWS MLOps stack or equivalent tools on Azure/GCP

Required Experience:

Senior IC

Key Skills

Administrative Skills,Facilities Management,Biotechnology,Creative Production,Design And Estimation,Architecture

Experience:

years

Vacancy:

1