Platform Engineer

apricot; Dubai; Hybrid; AED 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A tech company in Dubai is seeking an experienced Platform Engineer to enhance productivity through building effective tools and maintaining a robust infrastructure. The ideal candidate will possess over 5 years in Platform Engineering or similar roles, showcase strong expertise with cloud services, and be proficient in technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes. Responsibilities include automating workflows and establishing security practices, with a work environment promoting innovation and collaboration.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, or SRE.
• Strong expertise with cloud services and infrastructure-as-code tools.
• Proficient with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and monitoring systems.
• Familiar with on-call responsibilities and incident response practices.

Responsibilities

• Work with engineering teams to enhance productivity.
• Build and maintain a scalable platform infrastructure.
• Implement infrastructure as code and automate workflows.
• Develop tools for deploying, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• Establish security best practices across infrastructure.

Skills

Platform Engineering

DevOps

SRE

Cloud services

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Typescript

Node.js

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Pulumi

Jenkins

Prometheus

Grafana

DataDog

PostgresSQL

Redis

Elasticsearch

Job description

Open to relocation to Dubai, United Arab Emirates | Posted on 10/29/2025

This is an exciting opportunity for candidates based in the UAE, or who are open to relocating to the UAE, as this offer includes a relocation package.

What You'll Do:

• Work closely with engineering teams to identify pain points and build tools that streamline their workflows and enhance their productivity
  
• Build, operate, and maintain a reliable, scalable platform infrastructure that supports high-performance applications.
  
• Implement infrastructure as code and automate workflows to ensure consistency across environments
  
• Develop self-service tools that empower engineering teams to deploy, monitor, and troubleshoot with minimal assistance
  
• Establish security best practices across our infrastructure and application stack
  
• Collaborate with engineering teams to identify pain points and build productivity-enhancing tools
  

Requirements

• Bring 5+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, or SRE
  
• Have strong expertise with cloud services and infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi
  
• Are proficient with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes, and understand microservices architecture
  
• Have hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins) and monitoring systems like Prometheus, Grafana, or DataDog
  
• Are familiar with on-call responsibilities and incident response practices
  
• Use the latest AI tools and technologies to boost your productivity
  
• Typescript, Node.js and Nest.js for our main application’s backend.
  
• Swift/SwiftUI for our iOS app, Kotlin for our Android app.
  
• Next.js, React and Typescript for our web applications.
  
• GraphQL Federation for our client-facing APIs and Kafka for our inter-service communication.
  
• PostgresSQL for consistent and durable storage, Redis for quick fetching, Elasticsearch for quick searching.
  
• AWS for hosting our cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes for orchestrating our workloads.