Azure TechOps Engineer - 24/7 SRE & Observability

Momentum; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 350,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

Fanatics Momentum in Abu Dhabi seeks a TechOps Engineer to operate and modernise Azure-hosted Java/Spring Boot microservices on RHEL. The role covers 24/7 operations, incident management, and hands-on troubleshooting, with a path to codified infrastructure using Terraform, GitHub Actions and Ansible.

You'll support a centralized ELK logging/observability platform and contribute to security remediation, backups, DR readiness, and on-call rotations.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in TechOps/Infrastructure/SRE/Production Operations.
• Strong hands-on Azure and RHEL experience in production.
• Proven support of Java microservices/middleware in production.
• Strong hands-on debugging and analytical skills; comfortable working an unfamiliar problem from symptoms to root cause.
• Advanced Elasticsearch and JVM observability skills.
• Hands-on Terraform, GitHub Actions and Ansible; Python/Bash scripting.
• Strong incident management/RCA capability; ITIL familiarity.
• Comfortable with 24/7 operations; strong communication)

Responsibilities

• Build and support environments on Azure; hands-on RHEL administration.
• Act as escalation for L2/L3 incidents, driving RCA and permanent fixes.
• Debug issues hands-on across the stack (OS, network, middleware, JVM, database) using logs, metrics, thread/heap dumps and packet captures.
• Support Java/Spring Boot microservices and the middleware they run on; diagnose JVM issues (memory, GC, threads, latency).
• Drive security vulnerability remediation across OS, middleware and cloud.
• Collaborate with Security/SOC/NOC on incident response and post‑incident reviews.
• Deliver changes as code: infrastructure in Terraform, deployments via GitHub Actions running Ansible.
• Help build and run a centralized ELK platform as the logging and observability standard.
• Own backup, restore testing and DR failover readiness.
• Participate in 24/7 on‑call rotation.
• Manage incidents/problems/changes via Jira Service Management.
• Maintain runbooks, dashboards and documentation.

Skills

Troubleshooting

Incident management

Analytical thinking

On-call readiness

Tools

Azure

RHEL

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Ansible

Docker

Elastic Stack

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Prometheus

Grafana

Zscaler ZPA

Jira Service Management

Confluence

Job description

Fanatics Momentum in Abu Dhabi seeks a TechOps Engineer to operate and modernise Azure-hosted Java/Spring Boot microservices on RHEL. The role covers 24/7 operations, incident management, and hands-on troubleshooting, with a path to codified infrastructure using Terraform, GitHub Actions and Ansible.

You'll support a centralized ELK logging/observability platform and contribute to security remediation, backups, DR readiness, and on-call rotations.