DevOps Engineer

GCS Recruitment Specialists; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 240,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

GCS Recruitment Specialists is seeking a DevOps Engineer to design and maintain CI/CD pipelines, build scalable infrastructure for AI model deployment, and automate provisioning with IaC tools. You will optimize cloud and on-prem resources, monitor production systems, and collaborate with development and QA teams to deploy features securely and efficiently.

You will implement logging, monitoring, and alerting, manage secrets securely, and ensure adherence to SOC2/ISO27001 standards while

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in CS/Engineering.
• Proficiency in Python, Bash, or Go.
• Experience with AWS/Azure/GCP and container orchestration.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines.
• Build and manage scalable infrastructure for AI model deployment.
• Automate provisioning with IaC tools (Terraform, Ansible).
• Optimize cloud and on-prem resources for scalability & cost.
• Monitor and troubleshoot production systems for uptime.
• Set up logging, monitoring, and alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).
• Collaborate with dev/QA to deploy features to production.
• Ensure security/compliance standards (SOC2, ISO27001).
• Manage secrets with Vault or AWS Secrets Manager.
• Participate in rotating on-call schedule.

Skills

Python

Bash

Go

Cloud platforms

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Networking fundamentals

Real-time streaming

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

CloudFormation

Vault / AWS Secrets Manager

Job description

The Role

We are seeking a highly motivated and skilled DevOps Engineer to join our team. You'll play a
crucial role in building, deploying, and maintaining scalable and reliable systems and
infrastructure, working closely with development teams to ensure operational efficiency and
smooth deployment pipelines.

What You’ll Do

• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to streamline development workflows.
• Build and manage scalable infrastructure for AI model deployment and lifecycle management.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and management using tools like Terraform,
  Ansible, or CloudFormation.
• Optimize cloud-based and on-premises resources for scalability and cost efficiency.
• Manage and fine-tune queuing systems and real-time streaming architectures.
• Monitor and troubleshoot production systems to ensure uptime and performance.
• Implement logging, monitoring, and alerting solutions using tools such as Prometheus,
  Grafana, ELK stack, etc.
• Set up comprehensive monitoring for both system metrics and ML model performance.
• Conduct root cause analyses and post-mortems to improve system reliability.
• Collaborate with development and QA teams to deploy new features into production seamlessly.
• Promote best practices in system architecture, security, and performance.
• Participate in a rotating on-call schedule for production system support.
• Ensure infrastructure complies with security and compliance standards (e.g., SOC2,
  ISO27001).
• Securely manage secrets and credentials using tools like Vault or AWS Secrets Manager.

What You’ll Bring

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• Proficiency in at least one scripting language: Python, Bash, or Go.
• Hands‑on experience with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Skilled in containerization and orchestration with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience using CI/CD tools such as Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or CircleCI.
• Knowledge of monitoring and observability tools like Prometheus, Datadog, New Relic,
  Grafana, or PagerDuty.
• Understanding of networking fundamentals including DNS, load balancing, and firewalls.
• Familiarity with real-time streaming architectures for AI and data applications.

Great Pluses / Preferred Experience

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform or Pulumi.
• Understanding of service mesh technologies like Istio or Linkerd.
• Familiarity with database scaling and administration, including VectorDBs, SQL, and
  NoSQL systems.
• Previous experience in a high-traffic production environment

GCS is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.