Cloud & DevOps Engineer

Expertise Recruitment; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 300,000 - 500,000; Full time

Job summary

Expertise Recruitment seeks an experienced DevOps/Cloud Engineer in Abu Dhabi to automate software delivery and manage hybrid infrastructure. You will build CI/CD pipelines, provisioning, container orchestration, and implement monitoring and security practices to ensure reliable production systems.

Join a team focusing on scalable, secure deployments, cost-aware operations, and collaboration with cybersecurity and platform teams to optimize performance and resilience across cloud and on-premise

Qualifications

• Practical experience with Microsoft Azure and hybrid/on-premises infrastructure; AWS experience acceptable.
• Hands-on scripting/automation with Python, Bash and PowerShell.
• Knowledge of Git, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible and Azure DevOps.
• Understanding of Linux and/or Windows administration, networking, identity, security and production operations.
• Strong automation, troubleshooting, documentation and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and automated release processes using GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps pipelines.
• Provision and manage cloud / hybrid infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code and configuration-management practices.
• Develop and maintain containerised workloads and orchestration platforms where required.
• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, backup and recovery practices to support availability and operational visibility.
• Improve infrastructure security, secrets management, access controls, patching and compliance in partnership with cybersecurity teams.
• Troubleshoot deployment and production issues; support reliability, capacity planning and cloud-cost optimisation.

Skills

Azure cloud

Automation expertise

Linux/Windows admin

Collaboration

Tools

Git

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Ansible

Azure DevOps

Job description

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates | Posted on 11/11/2026

Automates software delivery and manages cloud or hybrid infrastructure, enabling secure, repeatable deployments, resilient services and effective monitoring of production environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and automated release processes using GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps pipelines.
• Provision and manage cloud / hybrid infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code and configuration-management practices.
• Develop and maintain containerised workloads and orchestration platforms where required.
• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, backup and recovery practices to support availability and operational visibility.
• Improve infrastructure security, secrets management, access controls, patching and compliance in partnership with cybersecurity teams.
• Troubleshoot deployment and production issues; support reliability, capacity planning and cloud-cost optimisation.

Requirements

Essential Requirements

• Practical experience with Microsoft Azure and hybrid/on-premises infrastructure; AWS experience acceptable.
• Experience with scripting or automation using Python, Bash and PowerShell.
• Hands-on knowledge of Git, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible and Azure DevOps.
• Understanding of Linux and/or Windows administration, networking, identity, security and production operations.
• Strong automation, troubleshooting, documentation and collaboration skills.

Preferred / Additional Qualifications

• Relevant cloud / Kubernetes / DevOps certifications.
• Experience with SRE practices, disaster recovery, policy-as-code, observability and secure delivery pipelines.