Data Platform Engineer

SentraAI; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 440,000 - 588,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm in the United Arab Emirates seeks a Data Platform Engineer to build and operate a core enterprise data platform. The role emphasizes maintaining cloud infrastructure, incident ownership, and improving operational efficiency. Ideal candidates will have production environment experience and a strong understanding of the balance between reliability, cost, and speed. This position offers exposure to high-scale systems and meritocratic growth opportunities.

Benefits

Ownership of a core enterprise data platform

Exposure to complex high-scale systems

Meritocratic progression based on impact

Qualifications

• Experience operating platforms in production and handling incidents.
• Ability to balance reliability, cost, and delivery speed.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code practices.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain cloud infrastructure.
• Operate and tune distributed compute and storage services.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, and incident response.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure using Terraform or equivalent

Distributed data processing environments

Event streaming platforms

Observability stacks

CI/CD implementation

Job description

This role owns the foundations that everything else depends on.

As a Data Platform Engineer at SentraAI you will build and operate the infrastructure tooling and services that underpin large-scale enterprise data and AI systems spanning numerous source systems high data volumes and extensive pipeline estates.

If you have not operated platforms in production handled incidents or taken accountability for reliability and cost this role is not for you.

The Operating Context

SentraAI is delivering a multi-year data and AI transformation for a complex enterprise.

The programme includes:

• Migration from legacy on-prem and bespoke platforms
• A modern cloud lakehouse architecture supporting batch and real-time workloads
• Enterprise analytics operational reporting and AI workloads at scale
• High expectations around governance security and availability

This is not greenfield. The platform is live relied upon and scrutinised.

Your Accountability

You are accountable for the stability performance security and cost efficiency of the data platform.

That includes:

• Building and maintaining cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code
• Operating and tuning distributed compute and storage services
• Running and maintaining event streaming and CDC infrastructure
• Implementing CI/CD for platform and data assets
• Monitoring alerting and incident response for live systems
• Supporting engineers during failures and critical delivery windows

Ownership does not stop at provisioning

Requirements

What You Will Build and Operate

• Cloud infrastructure using Terraform Pulumi or equivalent
• Distributed data processing environments and runtimes
• Event streaming platforms and integration services
• Object storage layouts lifecycle policies and access controls
• Observability stacks for platform and pipeline health
• Automated scaling recovery and cost controls

You are expected to actively use AI tools to improve reliability automation and operational efficiency within defined governance standards.

This Role Is Not For You If

• You have only worked in development environments not production
• You avoid incident ownership or operational responsibility
• You treat infrastructure as static rather than evolving systems
• You are uncomfortable balancing reliability cost and delivery speed
• You prefer tools over outcomes

We are explicit because the platform cannot fail quietly.

What Strong Looks Like

Within 612 months:

• Platform reliability and performance are consistently high
• Incident frequency and recovery times decrease
• Engineers trust the platform and do not work around it
• Costs are predictable and well-controlled
• Standards exist because they work not because they are enforced

This is how performance is measured.

Benefits

• Ownership of a core enterprise data platform
• Exposure to complex high-scale systems
• A team that values operational excellence
• Meritocratic progression based on impact
• Career capital that is globally credible

Final Note

SentraAI does not build fragile platforms.

We build systems that survive scale scrutiny and failure.

If you want to own infrastructure that matters and are comfortable being accountable for it we should talk.