DevOps Engineer

Remotedxb; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Comprehensive health insurance

Visa sponsorship

Professional development support

Job summary

Remotedxb in Abu Dhabi is seeking an experienced Azure DevOps professional to maintain and govern its AWA Azure infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of experience in DevOps and 2 years specifically within the Azure ecosystem.

The position offers a competitive salary, monthly incentives, health insurance, and visa sponsorship. Additionally, the successful candidate will work on cutting-edge AI projects in a rapidly growing company.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering roles.
• 2+ years of experience within the Azure ecosystem.
• Ability to manage multi-stage, gated deployment pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and govern AWA Azure infrastructure using Terraform or Bicep.
• Design and optimize automated Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions pipelines.
• Manage multi-namespace AKS clusters and enforce network policies.

Skills

DevOps

Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform or Bicep)

Azure DevOps

Kubernetes (AKS)

KQL (Kusto Query Language)

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

Azure Monitor

Azure Key Vault

Job description

Responsibilities

• Maintain and govern AWA Azure infrastructure using Terraform or Bicep, including AKS clusters, ADLS Gen2, and Key Vault.
• Design and optimize automated Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions pipelines for container compilation, image signing, and deployment.
• Manage multi-namespace AKS clusters, enforcing network policies, pod isolation, and KEDA autoscaling rules.
• Oversee container registries, image signing, vulnerability tracking, and admission control via OPA Gatekeeper.
• Administer access architectures, managed identities, TLS certificate lifecycles, and secret rotation in Azure Key Vault.
• Construct complex KQL queries in Azure Monitor and Log Analytics to track SLAs and runtime failures.
• Implement platform security, private connectivity endpoints, and enterprise firewall architectures.
• Define and validate automated disaster recovery failover paths to maintain RTO and RPO targets.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering roles.
• 2+ years of explicit experience within the Azure ecosystem.
• Deep competence in Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform or Bicep).
• Technical mastery of Kubernetes (AKS) configuration, including Helm/Kustomize and network policies.
• Practical experience implementing automated scaling using KEDA or equivalent metrics.
• Ability to manage multi-stage, gated deployment pipelines via Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.
• Proficiency in writing advanced KQL (Kusto Query Language) expressions.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or a related technical discipline.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficiency with Kubernetes Workload Identity and Azure Key Vault security profiles.
• Familiarity with Azure AI Foundry, API Management, and Azure Event Hubs or Kafka.
• Experience managing immutable ADLS Gen2 storage structures.
• Active certifications such as AZ-104, AZ-400, or CKA.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and monthly employee incentive program.
• Comprehensive personal health insurance.
• Visa sponsorship for the successful candidate.
• Professional development, certification support, and subscription reimbursement.
• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI projects within a rapidly growing company.

About the Company

DeepLight AI is a specialist AI and data consultancy that implements intelligent enterprise systems across multiple industries, with a focus on financial services and banking. We deliver tailored, scalable, and secure AI solutions designed to integrate seamlessly into complex enterprise architectures.