Platform Engineer | Cloud Platform Specialist

Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering Department at Abu Dhabi University; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Comprehensive employee benefits

Professional development in cloud/Dev野

Access to modern cloud platforms and工具

Opportunities to lead infrastructure/σ

Job summary

Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering Department at Abu Dhabi University seeks an experienced Platform Engineer | Cloud Platform Specialist to design, build, and maintain scalable cloud platforms and internal infrastructure. You will manage multi-cloud and hybrid environments, implement IaC, build CI/CD pipelines, and advance platform reliability and developer experience across the organization.

The role requires hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS/IT or related field.
• Experience in Platform/Cloud engineering, DevOps, or SRE.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Hands-on with IaC tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi.
• Strong CI/CD experience and modern software delivery practices.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm.
• Strong Linux system administration knowledge.
• Networking basics: DNS, TCP/IP, HTTP, load balancers, VPNs.
• Observability: monitoring, logging, alerts.
• Familiarity with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry, Datadog.
• Scripting: Python, Bash, Go, PowerShell.
• Git and infrastructure automation knowledge.
• Cloud security, IAM, secrets, encryption knowledge.
• Design for high availability and fault tolerance.
• DR/backup/resilience and business continuity awareness.
• Excellent documentation and communication skills.
• Collaborative with developers, security, IT, and business stakeholders.
• Problem-solving and independent work capability.
• Cloud certifications are advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable cloud platforms and infrastructure environments.
• Develop reliable platform services for application and engineering teams.
• Manage cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or hybrid environments.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, or similar tools.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate deployments.
• Develop reusable infrastructure components, templates, modules, and platform services.
• Automate provisioning, configuration, deployment, monitoring, and operations.
• Manage containerized environments with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, etc.
• Design and maintain Kubernetes clusters, workloads, networking, storage, and security.
• Establish platform standards and best practices across teams.
• Monitor availability, performance, capacity, reliability, and resource usage.
• Troubleshoot infra, network, app-platform, and deployment issues; investigate root causes.
• Implement observability covering logs, metrics, traces, alerts, health.
• Collaborate with software teams to improve developer workflows and deployments.
• Develop self-service tools and platform capabilities for engineers.
• Support modernization, cloud migration, and digital transformation efforts.
• Design highly available, fault-tolerant, disaster-resilient infra.
• Implement backup, recovery, DR, and business-continuity capabilities.
• Work with cybersecurity teams on cloud security controls and platform architecture.
• Manage IAM, secrets, encryption, network security, policies.
• Apply security/compliance across the platform lifecycle.
• Monitor cloud usage and cost-optimization efforts.
• Establish governance for accounts, subscriptions, resources, configurations.
• Capacity planning and performance optimization for cloud/platform infra.
• Participate in incident response and post-incident improvements.
• Maintain docs, diagrams, runbooks, procedures, and standards.
• Evaluate new cloud services and platform engineering practices.
• Support platform upgrades and lifecycle-management activities.
• Define reliability metrics like availability, latency, deployment frequency, recovery.

Skills

Platform engineering

DevOps

SRE

Cloud engineering

Agile methods

Documentation

Collaboration

Troubleshooting

Independent work

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/IT/Engineering

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Pulumi

Docker

Kubernetes

Helm

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Datadog

Job description

We’re Hiring: Platform Engineer | Cloud Platform Specialist

Employment Type: Full-Time

Level: Mid-Level to Senior

We are seeking a highly skilled and infrastructure-focused Platform Engineer | Cloud Platform Specialist to design, build, maintain, and optimize scalable cloud platforms and internal infrastructure. This role will work closely with Software Engineering, DevOps, Security, and IT teams to improve platform reliability, automation, deployment efficiency, security, and developer experience across the organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable cloud platforms and infrastructure environments.
• Develop reliable and secure platform services supporting application and engineering teams.
• Manage cloud infrastructure across AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, or hybrid environments.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, or similar technologies.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate application and infrastructure deployments.
• Develop reusable infrastructure components, templates, modules, and platform services.
• Automate provisioning, configuration, deployment, monitoring, and operational processes.
• Manage containerized environments using Docker, Kubernetes, or similar technologies.
• Design and maintain Kubernetes clusters, workloads, networking, storage, and security configurations.
• Establish scalable platform standards and engineering best practices across development teams.
• Monitor platform availability, performance, capacity, reliability, and resource utilization.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure, networking, application-platform, and deployment-related issues.
• Implement observability solutions covering logs, metrics, traces, alerts, and system health.
• Collaborate with Software Engineering teams to improve developer workflows and deployment processes.
• Develop self-service tools and platform capabilities that enable engineering teams to work efficiently.
• Support application modernization, cloud migration, and digital transformation initiatives.
• Design highly available, fault-tolerant, and disaster-resilient cloud infrastructure.
• Implement backup, recovery, disaster-recovery, and business-continuity capabilities.
• Work with Cybersecurity teams to implement cloud security controls and secure platform architectures.
• Manage identity and access controls, secrets, encryption, network security, and infrastructure policies.
• Apply security and compliance requirements throughout the platform lifecycle.
• Monitor cloud resource usage and support infrastructure cost-optimization initiatives.
• Establish governance standards for cloud accounts, subscriptions, environments, resources, and configurations.
• Conduct capacity planning and performance optimization for cloud and platform infrastructure.
• Participate in incident response, root-cause analysis, and post-incident improvement activities.
• Maintain technical documentation, architecture diagrams, runbooks, operational procedures, and platform standards.
• Evaluate new cloud services, infrastructure technologies, automation tools, and platform engineering practices.
• Support platform upgrades, technology migrations, and lifecycle-management activities.
• Establish reliability and operational metrics such as availability, latency, deployment frequency, and recovery performance.
• Continuously improve platform automation, scalability, security, reliability, and developer experience.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• Previous experience in Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or a similar role.
• Strong experience working with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Strong understanding of cloud architecture, networking, compute, storage, databases, and security services.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, or equivalent technologies.
• Strong experience with CI/CD tools and modern software-delivery practices.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, or other container technologies.
• Strong understanding of Linux and system administration.
• Knowledge of networking concepts including DNS, TCP/IP, HTTP, load balancing, firewalls, VPNs, and routing.
• Experience implementing monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability solutions.
• Familiarity with tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, or similar platforms is advantageous.
• Strong scripting or programming skills using Python, Bash, Go, PowerShell, or similar languages.
• Understanding of Git, version control, branching strategies, and infrastructure automation.
• Knowledge of cloud security, IAM, secrets management, encryption, and security best practices.
• Experience designing highly available and fault-tolerant infrastructure.
• Understanding of disaster recovery, backup, resilience, and business-continuity concepts.
• Strong troubleshooting, debugging, and root-cause-analysis skills.
• Familiarity with Agile, DevOps, SRE, or platform-engineering methodologies.
• Strong understanding of system reliability, scalability, performance, and capacity management.
• Excellent documentation and technical communication skills.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with developers, architects, security teams, IT teams, and business stakeholders.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work independently in a fast-paced technical environment.
• Relevant cloud certifications such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, or equivalent qualifications are advantageous.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary and comprehensive employee benefits.
• Opportunity to design and operate modern cloud platforms at scale.
• Exposure to cloud-native technologies, Kubernetes, automation, and platform engineering.
• Professional development in cloud architecture, DevOps, SRE, infrastructure, and security.
• Access to modern cloud platforms and engineering tools.
• Opportunities to lead infrastructure automation and platform modernization projects.
• Exposure to complex enterprise technology environments.
• Support for relevant cloud, Kubernetes, DevOps, and professional certifications.
• Collaborative engineering environment focused on automation, reliability, and continuous improvement.
• Recognition for improving platform performance, stability, security, and developer productivity.

• Career progression toward Senior Platform Engineer, Cloud Platform Lead, Platform Engineering Manager, Cloud Infrastructure Manager, or Head of Platform Engineering.