Cloud-Native DevOps Engineer – Abu Dhabi (6-month)

Halian | Managed Services, Recruitment Agency & Contract Staffing; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 320,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

Halian is seeking a hands-on DevOps Specialist in Abu Dhabi to design, automate, secure, and operate modern cloud-native platforms serving mission-critical services. You will work with Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, and GitOps practices in a collaborative engineering environment.

The role emphasizes reliability, automation, and platform security, with opportunities to optimize deployment pipelines, observability, and incident response across production and non-production environments.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years hands-on DevOps, SRE, Platform or Infrastructure Engineering experience.
• Minimum 3 years Kubernetes administration and operations experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IT or related discipline.
• Strong Linux systems administration and troubleshooting skills.
• Hands-on with Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Git, CI/CD platforms and cloud infrastructure.
• Experience supporting production environments and critical business applications.
• Experience building automation using Python, Bash or Shell scripting.
• Solid understanding of Infrastructure-as-Code and cloud-native architectures.
• Experience in highly regulated environments (financial services, telecom, etc).

Responsibilities

• Design, build, automate, and support cloud-native infrastructure and platforms.
• Manage and improve Kubernetes environments across production and non-production systems.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform and related tooling.
• Design, implement, and optimize CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Support containerized workloads using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Implement GitOps, automation, and platform engineering best practices.
• Monitor platform health, reliability, availability, and performance with observability tools.
• Troubleshoot production incidents and perform root-cause analysis.
• Collaborate with software engineering teams to improve deployment reliability, security, and scalability.
• Drive operational excellence through automation and self-service capabilities.
• Contribute to platform security, governance, and cloud operational standards.

Skills

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Git

CI/CD

Cloud infra

Linux

Python

Shell scripting

Security automation

GitOps

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/IT

Tools

ArgoCD

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Halian is seeking a hands-on DevOps Specialist in Abu Dhabi to design, automate, secure, and operate modern cloud-native platforms serving mission-critical services. You will work with Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, and GitOps practices in a collaborative engineering environment.

The role emphasizes reliability, automation, and platform security, with opportunities to optimize deployment pipelines, observability, and incident response across production and non-production environments.