Cloud-Native Platform Engineer - Relocate to Abu Dhabi

Halian | Managed Services, Recruitment Agency & Contract Staffing; Abu Dhabi Emirate; On-site; AED 220,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

Halian is seeking a hands-on DevOps Specialist to design, automate, secure, and operate modern cloud-native platforms in Abu Dhabi, UAE. You will manage Kubernetes environments, implement IaC with Terraform, and develop CI/CD pipelines to support production-scale services.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in DevOps/SRE/Platform Engineering, strong Linux skills, and hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, and cloud infrastructure.

Qualifications

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

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 using observability solutions.
• Troubleshoot production incidents and perform root cause analysis.
• Collaborate with software teams to improve deployment reliability, security, and developer experience.
• Drive operational excellence through automation and self-service capabilities.

Skills

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Git

CI/CD

Cloud infrastructure

Python

Shell scripting

Platform engineering

SRE

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS/Azure/GCP

GitLab CI/CD

GitHub Actions

ArgoCD or Flux

Helm

Prometheus/Grafana

Karpenter/KEDA

Job description

Halian is seeking a hands-on DevOps Specialist to design, automate, secure, and operate modern cloud-native platforms in Abu Dhabi, UAE. You will manage Kubernetes environments, implement IaC with Terraform, and develop CI/CD pipelines to support production-scale services.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in DevOps/SRE/Platform Engineering, strong Linux skills, and hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, and cloud infrastructure.