DevOps Engineers (AIOps) - API and Kubernetes

Dicetek LLC; Dubai; On-site; AED 420,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

Dicetek LLC is seeking a seasoned DevOps Engineer to own deployment, IaC, CI/CD, and reliability of the AWA platform in the UAE environment. You will enforce reproducible infrastructure from code, manage AKS namespaces and policies, and oversee security and governance across pipelines.

The role emphasizes automation, not manual deployments, with responsibilities spanning Terraform/Bicep, AKS operations, Notary v2 signing, and private networking in Azure UAE.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in DevOps/Platform Engineering
• 2+ years on Azure
• Production IaC with Terraform/Bicep
• Kubernetes/AKS administration
• CI/CD pipeline ownership and automation
• Image signing and container security practices
• Azure Monitor and KQL usage
• Networking concepts in Azure (VNet, private endpoints, ExpressRoute)

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain AWA Azure infrastructure in Terraform/Bicep
• Design and maintain Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions pipelines
• Manage AKS cluster namespaces, policies, and autoscaling
• Configure container governance including ACR and Notary v2 signing

Skills

DevOps / Platform Engineering

Azure experience

IaC (Terraform/Bicep)

Kubernetes / AKS

CI/CD pipelines

Security / image signing

Observability / Azure Monitor

Networking concepts

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

AKS

Kustomize

Helm

Notary v2

ACR

ExpressRoute

OPA Gatekeeper

KEDA

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Job description

Exp 5+ years

Location: Onsite/ Dubai or Abu Dhabi

Notice period- Upto 30 Days.

Job Summary

The DevOps Engineer owns the AWA platform's deployment, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, and operational reliability. You ensure that every AWA component — from AKS namespaces and KEDA autoscalers to ADLS Gen2 lifecycle policies and Azure Firewall allowlists — is deployed consistently, tested automatically, and operated reliably within THE BANK's Azure UAE environment. You are the guardian of the AWA infrastructure: nothing is deployed manually; everything is reproducible from code.

Key Responsibilities

• Infrastructure as code: Own and maintain all AWA Azure infrastructure in Terraform/Bicep: AKS 5-namespace cluster, ADLS Gen2 accounts with WORM policies, Azure AI Foundry APIM configurations, Azure Firewall allowlists, private endpoints, Key Vault, Container Registry, ExpressRoute peering.
• CI/CD pipeline ownership: Design and maintain Azure DevOps pipelines for all AWA components: container image build → ACR push → Notary v2 signing → AKS deployment; Terraform plan → policy check → apply; Agent Regression Testing gate on every PR.
• AKS operations: Manage the 5-namespace AKS cluster — namespace isolation, Network Policies, Pod Disruption Budgets, KEDA autoscaling rules based on Kafka consumer lag, OPA Gatekeeper admission policies, Workload Identity bindings for all agent pods.
• Container governance: Manage ACR, enforce Notary v2 image signing, configure vulnerability scanning, maintain the approved-image ConfigMap used by OPA Gatekeeper admission control.

Required Skills and Experience

Technical — Essential

• 5+ years DevOps/Platform Engineering; 2+ years on Azure
• Terraform or Bicep — production IaC, not just templates
• Kubernetes / AKS: namespaces, RBAC, Network Policies, Helm charts, Kustomize
• Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions — multi-stage pipelines, approvals, environments
• Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, KQL query language
• Container ecosystem: Docker, ACR, image signing, admission control
• Azure networking: VNet, private endpoints, NSGs, Azure Firewall, ExpressRoute concepts
• KEDA (Kubernetes Event-Driven Autoscaling) or equivalent autoscaling experience