Platform Engineer | Cloud Platform Specialist

ABU ALI; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 360,000 - 720,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Career development

Cloud platform exposure

Certifications support

Healthcare benefits

Job summary

ABU ALI is seeking a Platform Engineer to design, build, and optimize scalable cloud platforms and internal infrastructure in a fast-paced environment. You will collaborate with Software Engineering, DevOps, Security and IT to improve reliability, automation, deployment efficiency, and developer experience.

The role involves managing multi-cloud/hybrid environments, implementing IaC, and leading CI/CD initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Software/Computer Engineering or related field.
• Experience in Platform/Cloud Engineering, DevOps, SRE or Infrastructure roles.
• Strong experience with AWS, Azure or Google Cloud.
• Solid understanding of cloud architecture, networking, compute, storage, databases and security services.
• Hands-on with IaC tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, or equivalent.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and modern software delivery practices.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm or similar container tech.
• Strong Linux/system administration knowledge.
• Networking knowledge: DNS, TCP/IP, HTTP, load balancing, firewalls, VPNs, routing.
• Observability tools: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry, Datadog; scripting in Python/Bash/Go.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable cloud platforms and infrastructure environments.
• Develop reliable and secure platform services for application and engineering teams.
• Manage cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or hybrid setups.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code and automation for provisioning and deployments.
• Build and manage CI/CD pipelines for application and infrastructure releases.
• Operate and secure container platforms with Kubernetes and related tooling.
• Establish platform standards and best practices for reliability and efficiency.
• Monitor availability, performance, and resource usage; troubleshoot issues.
• Develop self-service tools to empower engineering teams.
• Support cloud migrations, modernization, and cost-optimization efforts.
• Collaborate with security teams to enforce cloud security controls.

Skills

Cloud platforms

Infrastructure as Code

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Linux

Networking

Security

Observability

Automation

DevOps

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Pulumi

Docker

Kubernetes

Helm

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK

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.