Remote Senior Container Platform Engineer

UPDATE Foods Co Ⓥ; Abu Dhabi; Remote; AED 300,000 - 540,000; Full time

Job summary

UPDATE Foods Co Ⓥ is seeking an experienced Senior Container Platform Specialist to design, implement, and secure enterprise container platforms for modern applications. The role emphasizes Kubernetes‑driven architecture, platform engineering, and cross‑functional collaboration across IT and business units.

You will lead container runtime and image lifecycle management, orchestration, and platform automation while ensuring resilience, security, and scalable operations in a fully remote,

Qualifications

• Experience with designing container platforms for development, testing, staging, production, and DR.

Responsibilities

• Design enterprise container platforms for development, testing, staging, production, and disaster recovery environments.
• Evaluate architectures based on workload, scalability, security, and operational complexity.
• Develop standardized hosting solutions for on‑prem, public/private/hybrid clouds.
• Assess container technologies (Docker, containerd, Podman, Kubernetes).
• Define standards, deployment patterns, configurations, and operating guidelines.
• Determine compute, memory, storage, networking, and runtime needs for workloads.
• Maintain architecture diagrams and design documentation.
• Recommend platform improvements for resilience and cost efficiency.
• Administer and monitor enterprise container platforms and infrastructure.
• Manage container hosts, runtimes, agents, and orchestration integrations.
• Maintain platform availability and health; perform health checks and maintenance.
• Upgrade runtimes, hosts, and software lifecycle activities.
• Troubleshoot runtime issues, deployment problems, and resource constraints.
• Maintain inventories and support arrangements for container platforms.
• Coordinate with vendors and MSPs to resolve complex issues.
• Develop SOPs for platform administration and recovery.
• Configure runtimes and ensure security patches.
• Manage image lifecycles and registry operations.
• Coordinate with cross‑functional teams for compatibility.

Skills

Kubernetes

Docker

Containerd

Podman

Automation

Architecture

Security

Troubleshooting

Tools

Docker Engine

Job description

UPDATE Foods Co Ⓥ is seeking an experienced Senior Container Platform Specialist to design, implement, and secure enterprise container platforms for modern applications. The role emphasizes Kubernetes‑driven architecture, platform engineering, and cross‑functional collaboration across IT and business units.

You will lead container runtime and image lifecycle management, orchestration, and platform automation while ensuring resilience, security, and scalable operations in a fully remote,