DevOps Specialist (6-month contract) (m/f/d)

Halian | Managed Services, Recruitment Agency & Contract Staffing; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 320,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

Halian is seeking a hands-on DevOps Specialist in Abu Dhabi to design, automate, secure, and operate modern cloud-native platforms serving mission-critical services. You will work with Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, and GitOps practices in a collaborative engineering environment.

The role emphasizes reliability, automation, and platform security, with opportunities to optimize deployment pipelines, observability, and incident response across production and non-production environments.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years hands-on DevOps, SRE, Platform or Infrastructure Engineering experience.
• Minimum 3 years Kubernetes administration and operations experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IT or related discipline.
• Strong Linux systems administration and troubleshooting skills.
• Hands-on with Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Git, CI/CD platforms and cloud infrastructure.
• Experience supporting production environments and critical business applications.
• Experience building automation using Python, Bash or Shell scripting.
• Solid understanding of Infrastructure-as-Code and cloud-native architectures.
• Experience in highly regulated environments (financial services, telecom, etc).

Responsibilities

• Design, build, automate, and support cloud-native infrastructure and platforms.
• Manage and improve Kubernetes environments across production and non-production systems.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform and related tooling.
• Design, implement, and optimize CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Support containerized workloads using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Implement GitOps, automation, and platform engineering best practices.
• Monitor platform health, reliability, availability, and performance with observability tools.
• Troubleshoot production incidents and perform root-cause analysis.
• Collaborate with software engineering teams to improve deployment reliability, security, and scalability.
• Drive operational excellence through automation and self-service capabilities.
• Contribute to platform security, governance, and cloud operational standards.

Skills

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Git

CI/CD

Cloud infra

Linux

Python

Shell scripting

Security automation

GitOps

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/IT

Tools

ArgoCD

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Location: Abu Dhabi, UAEJoin a technology-driven organization building and operating mission-critical digital platforms that serve large-scale internal and customer-facing services.

Location: Abu Dhabi, UAEJoin a technology-driven organization building and operating mission-critical digital platforms that serve large-scale internal and customer-facing services.

We are seeking a hands-on DevOps Specialist to help design, automate, secure, and operate modern cloud-native platforms. This role is ideal for engineers who enjoy solving complex infrastructure challenges, building scalable automation, improving developer experience, and ensuring platform reliability at scale.

This position offers the opportunity to work with modern cloud technologies, Kubernetes platforms, Infrastructure-as-Code, DevOps automation, and production-grade systems within a highly collaborative engineering environment.

What You'll Be Doing

• Design, build, automate, and support cloud-native infrastructure and platforms.
• Manage and improve Kubernetes environments across production and non-production systems.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform and related tooling.
• Design, implement, and optimize CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Support containerized workloads using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Implement GitOps, automation, and platform engineering best practices.
• Monitor platform health, reliability, availability, and performance using modern observability solutions.
• Troubleshoot complex production incidents and perform root cause analysis.
• Collaborate with software engineering teams to improve deployment reliability, security, scalability, and developer experience.
• Improve operational excellence through automation, self-service capabilities, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Contribute to platform security, governance, and cloud operational standards.

Required Qualifications

• Must be immediately available, no notice period and within the UAE.
• Minimum 5 years of hands-on DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering experience.
• Minimum 3 years of hands‑on Kubernetes administration and operations experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related discipline.
• Strong Linux systems administration and troubleshooting skills.
• Hands‑on experience with:
• Kubernetes
• Docker
• Terraform
• Git
• CI/CD platforms
• Cloud infrastructure
• Experience supporting production environments and critical business applications.
• Experience building automation solutions using Python, Bash, Shell scripting, or similar languages.
• Strong understanding of Infrastructure-as-Code principles and cloud-native architectures.
• Financial services, fintech, banking, telecommunications, or other highly regulated environments

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in one or more of the following:

• AWS, Azure, or GCP
• GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins
• GitOps platforms such as ArgoCD or Flux
• Helm
• Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, Loki, Datadog, New Relic, Splunk
• Karpenter, KEDA, Istio, Service Mesh technologies
• DevSecOps practices and security automation
• Terraform Associate, CKA, CKAD, AWS/Azure/GCP certifications

What We're Looking For.

We are particularly interested in engineers who:

• Remain highly hands‑on technically.
• Have managed Kubernetes platforms in real production environments.
• Enjoy solving infrastructure and reliability challenges.
• Have built CI/CD and automation solutions from the ground up.
• Take ownership of platform stability, operational excellence, and engineering quality.
• Thrive in collaborative, fast-moving environments.

DevOps Specialist (6-month contract) in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates