Devops & Platform Engineer

Lunate; Abu Dhabi Emirate; On-site; AED 320,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

Lunate is seeking a Senior Lead DevOps / SRE Engineer in Abu Dhabi to own production delivery across the Azure estate. This hands-on role decomposes complex designs and lands them as secure, production-grade platforms.

You will lead AKS platform engineering, IaC via Terraform and Ansible, and build CI/CD pipelines and release management to keep platforms fast, safe, and observable.

Qualifications

• 7 to 12+ years in DevOps, Platform, or SRE roles.
• Proven ownership of large-scale platform implementations.
• Strong hands-on with AKS in production, including upgrades and security hardening.
• Expert Terraform for infrastructure provisioning.
• Expert Ansible in CI/CD integration.
• Azure DevOps pipeline engineering and release practices.
• Scripting in Python, Bash, PowerShell with automation mindset.
• Experience with Linux and Windows Server estates.
• Operational excellence: monitoring, incident response, postmortems, and SLO-driven decisions.
• Experience in regulated environments with traceability and change governance.

Responsibilities

• Translate reference architectures into production-ready platforms with security and runtime awareness.
• Own end-to-end delivery of complex platform changes from design to production handover.
• Design, operate AKS clusters with upgrades, scaling, hardening, and performance tuning.
• Build and maintain IaC using Terraform and Ansible; develop reusable modules and patterns.
• Design multi-stage Azure DevOps pipelines, deployment strategies, approval gates, and rollback.Standardize pipelines with templates for quality and auditability.
• Own release management: planning, communication, and rollback readiness; manage risk with SRE metrics.

Skills

AKS expertise

Terraform

Ansible

Azure DevOps

Docker

Helm

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Python

Bash

PowerShell

Linux

Windows Server

Observability

Incident response

SRE

Security hardening

Release management

Automation

Tools

Docker

Helm

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

Azure DevOps

Job description

Lunate is a new Abu Dhabi-based, Partner-led, independent global alternative investment manager with more than 200 employees and $115 billion of assets under management. Lunate invests across the entire private markets spectrum including buyouts, growth equity, early and late-stage venture capital, private credit, real assets, and public equities and public credit. Lunate aims to be one of the world’s leading private markets solutions providers through SMAs and multi-asset class funds, seeking to generate best-in-class risk-adjusted returns for its clients.

Role Overview

Lunate is seeking a Senior Lead DevOps / SRE Engineer to take ownership of how architecture is delivered into production across our Azure estate. This is a hands-on technical role for someone who can decompose complex solution designs and land them as secure, reliable, production-grade platforms.

The successful candidate will lead Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) platform engineering, own Infrastructure as Code delivery using Terraform and Ansible, engineer Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines, and establish the release management and Site Reliability Engineering practices that keep Lunate’s platforms fast, safe, and observable.

The role sits within the Technology Architecture function and works closely with cloud engineering, infrastructure engineering, security, and application teams.

Key Responsibilities

Translate reference architectures and solution designs into implementable, production-ready platforms, covering security, networking, identity, and runtime considerations. Own end-to-end delivery of complex platform changes through design decomposition, implementation planning, engineering execution, and operational handover. Drive technical trade-offs across reliability, security, performance, and maintainability.

AKS Platform Engineering and Operations

Design, implement, and operate AKS clusters including upgrades, scaling, node pool strategy, cluster hardening, workload isolation, and performance optimisation. Troubleshoot complex issues spanning Kubernetes, networking, identity integration, and underlying infrastructure, with a bias toward root‑cause resolution and automation.

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform and Ansible)

Build and maintain IaC frameworks using Terraform for provisioning and Ansible for configuration management. Create reusable modules, roles, and playbooks; enforce coding standards; manage drift; and integrate IaC into CI/CD workflows for controlled promotion across environments. Deliver end-to-end automation from infrastructure provisioning through post-provision configuration and hardening.

Design and implement multi-stage Azure DevOps pipelines, deployment strategies, approval gates, artifact management, and rollback patterns. Standardise pipelines through reusable templates and documented patterns to improve quality, repeatability, and auditability.

Release Management

Own the release management operating model, including release planning, change control alignment, release communications, promotion sequencing, verification, and rollback readiness. Use reliability signals and operational readiness criteria to govern release confidence and reduce deployment risk.

Automation and Scripting

Develop automation and tooling in Python, Bash, and PowerShell to reduce operational toil and improve repeatability across build, deploy, monitoring, and incident response workflows.

Linux and Windows Server Engineering

Operate and troubleshoot both Linux and Windows Server environments supporting application and platform workloads, applying consistent configuration and hardening practices across both estates.

Site Reliability Engineering

Define and operationalise SLIs, SLOs, and error budget policies to balance delivery velocity with service reliability. Lead incident response, establish runbooks, and drive blameless postmortems with measurable actions to reduce recurrence.

Technical Systems and Tooling

Cloud and Orchestration

Containerisation

Docker (image build, multi-stage builds, Dockerfile authoring), container registries (Azure Container Registry), image signing and vulnerability scanning, OCI-compliant runtimes, and Helm for Kubernetes application packaging.

Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management

Terraform (infrastructure provisioning and lifecycle management), Ansible (configuration management, roles, and playbooks).

CI/CD and Release Tooling

Scripting and Automation

Python, Bash, PowerShell.

Operating Systems

Linux (enterprise distributions) and Windows Server.

Observability, Reliability, and Operations

Monitoring and observability tooling spanning metrics, logs, and traces; alerting and alert tuning; incident response tooling and runbooks; SLI/SLO instrumentation and error budget reporting.

Essential Skills and Experience

• 7 to 12 or more years of experience in DevOps, Platform, or SRE roles, including demonstrated ownership of large-scale implementations and platform outcomes.
• Demonstrated ability to design complex systems or take a defined architecture and deliver it end-to-end into production with operational readiness.
• Strong hands-on experience operating and troubleshooting AKS in production, including upgrades, scaling, and security hardening.
• Strong experience with Docker and container tooling, including image build and optimisation, container registry management, vulnerability scanning, and Helm-based application packaging.
• Expert-level experience with Terraform for infrastructure provisioning and lifecycle management.
• Strong experience with Ansible for configuration management and automation, including integration into CI/CD pipelines.
• Expert-level Azure DevOps pipeline engineering and release practices.
• Strong scripting skills in Python, Bash, and PowerShell with an automation-first mindset.
• Strong operational experience across both Linux and Windows Server estates.
• Operational excellence experience covering monitoring and observability, incident response, postmortems, and SLO-driven decisioning.
• Experience with a mature observability stack across metrics, logs, and traces, including alert tuning at scale.
• Experience delivering in regulated environments where traceability and change governance are required, including release evidence, approvals, and segregation-of-duties patterns.
• Relevant certifications such as Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), HashiCorp Certified Terraform Associate, or Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert.