Cloud & DevOps Engineer (Banking)

Tandem Interim; Dubai; Hybrid; AED 446,000 - 725,000; Full time

Job summary

Banking Cloud & DevOps Engineer (Banking) contract role in UAE. You will migrate banking apps from on-premises to AWS or Azure, containerize with Docker and Kubernetes/OpenShift, and build CI/CD pipelines with IaC.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering banking-grade cloud projects.
• Proven ability to migrate on-premise apps to public clouds.
• Hands-on with AWS and/or Azure, plus IaC tooling.

Responsibilities

• Migrate banking apps from on-prem to AWS or Azure.
• Containerize apps with Docker and Kubernetes/OpenShift.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and IaC.
• Improve resilience, monitoring, and DR.
• Collaborate with security and infra teams.

Skills

Banking delivery experience

Cloud & DevOps

Cloud migration

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Terraform

Ansible

Jenkins

GitLab

Azure DevOps

Linux

Job description

Cloud & DevOps Engineer (Banking) - Contract

Location: [UAE - location / hybrid]

Contract: [6 months, extendable]

Our client, a leading UAE bank, is modernizing how its applications are hosted, built and deployed. They need a Cloud & DevOps Engineer with real banking delivery experience.

What you'll do

• Migrate banking applications from on-premises infrastructure to AWS or Azure
• Containerize applications using Docker and Kubernetes/OpenShift
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code
• Improve application resilience, monitoring and disaster recovery
• Work closely with application, security and infrastructure teams

What you'll bring

• Hands-on experience on production cloud or infrastructure projects in a bank or regulated financial institution
• Strong skills in AWS and/or Azure, Terraform, Docker and Kubernetes
• CI/CD experience with Jenkins, GitLab or Azure DevOps, plus Ansible and Linux
• Practical delivery experience. Certifications alone are not enough for this role.