Platform Reliability Engineer

BEACON RED; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 320,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

EDGE Group seeks a Platform Reliability Engineer to design and automate resilient, scalable platforms. You will drive recovery readiness, ensure backup integrity, and support VMware-to-cloud migrations. The role emphasizes automation, observability, and reducing manual toil to boost overall reliability.

You will join a highly skilled team based in Abu Dhabi, delivering enterprise-grade multi-cloud solutions with strong governance and engineering discipline.

Qualifications

• 8 to 10+ years of enterprise infrastructure, cloud, or platform engineering experience.
• Experience with Nutanix, VMware, public cloud platforms, and backup/recovery technologies.
• Strong PowerShell or Python scripting and automation skills.
• Proven ability to improve platform resilience, recoverability, and operational efficiency through automation.
• Ability to reduce operational toil and improve reliability at scale.

Responsibilities

• Ensure reliability, performance, and recoverability of core platform services.
• Manage and validate backup/recovery capabilities using Rubrik and related tools.
• Plan and execute disaster recovery testing and recovery assurance activities.
• Support migrations from VMware to modern cloud platforms.
• Develop automation to reduce manual effort and improve service reliability.
• Improve observability, monitoring, alerting and operational readiness across the platform.

Skills

PowerShell

Python

Automation

Tools

Nutanix

VMware

Rubrik

Public Cloud Platforms

Job description

Job Description:

About EDGE Group

At EDGE bold ideas are engineered into technologies that protect, improve and save lives. Headquartered in the United Arab Emirates, EDGE is a leading advanced technology group working at the forefront of defence and emerging technologies. Spanning more than 35 specialised companies and multiple centres of excellence, we are purpose-built to move fast. Free from heavy legacy processes, we give our people the autonomy, accountability, and agility to bring breakthrough technologies from concept to reality.

Based in Abu Dhabi, a globally connected hub at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, EDGE is home to a truly multicultural community where bold ideas thrive, and the future is shaped.

Together, we are shaping the future.

About The Opportunity

We're building a highly resilient hybrid multicloud platform spanning Nutanix and public cloud, while delivering a major migration from VMware. We're looking for a Platform Reliability Engineer who is passionate about automation, resilience, recoverability, and operational excellence. This is not a traditional infrastructure operations role. We want someone who can demonstrate how they have improved platform reliability through engineering, automation, monitoring, disaster recovery testing, and continuous improvement.

What You'll Be Doing

• Ensuring the reliability, performance, and recoverability of critical platform services
• Managing and validating backup and recovery capabilities using enterprise tools such as Rubrik
• Planning and executing disaster recovery testing and recovery assurance activities
• Supporting platform and workload migrations from VMware to modern cloud platforms
• Developing automation to reduce operational effort and improve service reliability
• Improving observability, monitoring, alerting, and operational readiness across the platform

What We're Looking For

• 8 to 10 plus years of strong experience with enterprise infrastructure, cloud, or platform engineering
• Experience with Nutanix, VMware, public cloud platforms, and backup/recovery technologies
• Strong PowerShell, Python, or similar automation skills
• Experience improving platform resilience, recoverability, and operational efficiency through automation
• Proven ability to reduce operational toil and improve reliability at scale

For this role, you must be able to demonstrate:

• Reliability improvements you've delivered and how success was measured
• Disaster recovery programmes or recovery testing you've led
• Operational processes you've automated and the impact achieved
• How you validate recoverability, not just successful backups
• Major migration or transformation programmes you've supported

If you're passionate about building resilient platforms, proving recoverability, and eliminating manual operational effort through automation, we'd like to hear from you.

Why Choose EDGE?

Working at EDGE comes with a package that genuinely reflects how much we value our people. Salaries are highly competitive and tax-free and, depending on your role and seniority, benefits can include family visas, annual flight tickets, medical insurance for you and your dependants, and education allowances for your children.

But the real investment goes further than compensation. Through our own learning academy and digital learning platform, there are extensive opportunities to develop your skills and advance your career. Add to that the freedom to innovate, strong career guidance, and the chance to work alongside world-class talent from across the globe, and EDGE becomes a place where you can keep growing, keep learning, and keep turning bold ideas into something real.

Candidate Privacy & Equal Opportunity Statement

Any information you share as part of your EDGE candidate profile or job application will be handled in accordance with applicable data protection and privacy regulations.

EDGE is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and high-performing workforce. We believe every individual deserves to be treated with fairness, respect and dignity, and our employment decisions reflect that. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, nationality, ethnicity, religion, gender, marital status, age, disability, pregnancy or parental status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

As a global organisation, effective collaboration across international teams is central to how we work, so English proficiency is required for all roles unless otherwise stated in the job posting.

Please note that EDGE does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies. Any resumes in the absence of a formally executed agreement in place will be deemed the property of EDGE, and no placement fees or compensation will be payable in respect of such submissions.

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