Senior AI Platform Engineer – Kubernetes & Air-Gapped Infra

Confidential Career Solutions, LLC; United Arab Emirates; On-site; AED 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Confidential Career Solutions, LLC is building an enterprise AI platform deployed across Azure and air-gapped on-prem environments. You will own target architecture, hosting, and platform tooling, including GPU workloads and sandboxed browser environments.

You will lead platform engineering, mentor a junior DevOps engineer, and drive security-first, policy-as-code delivery with GitOps pipelines across environments.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software, infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering, with production Kubernetes at scale.
• Experience defining target architectures and securing reviews.
• Deep hands-on Azure experience (AKS, networking, Key Vault, Monitor, ACR).
• Experience running on-premises Kubernetes and hybrid cloud connections.
• Experience delivering software into air-gapped or restricted environments.
• Production GitOps with Argo CD or Flux, and Helm chart maintenance.
• Strong IaC skills with Terraform/OpenTofu and/or Bicep.
• Solid Linux, networking, and scripting (Bash + Python/Go).
• Security-first mindset: least privilege, secrets, policy as code, supply-chain security.
• Technical leadership: owning architecture decisions and mentoring engineers.

Responsibilities

• Define target architecture and hosting strategies for Azure and air-gapped sites.
• Design Kubernetes platforms across Azure and on-prem clusters with policy consistency.
• Package platform as Helm charts for offline installs and air-gapped registries.
• Build GitOps pipelines using Argo CD or Flux for multi-environment promotion.
• Define IaC with Terraform/OpenTofu and/or Bicep; ensure security and compliance.
• Operate GPU workloads and sandboxed browser workloads at scale.
• Lead platform engineering and mentor junior engineers.

Skills

Kubernetes at scale

Azure AKS

GitOps

Helm charts

IaC (Terraform/OpenTofu/Bicep)

Security by design

Linux networking

Scripting (Bash/Python/Go)

Platform leadership

Tools

Azure

Harbor

RKE2/OpenShift/Rancher/Kubernetes

OpenTelemetry/Grafana/Prometheus

vLLM/SGLang/Triton

Job description

Confidential Career Solutions, LLC is building an enterprise AI platform deployed across Azure and air-gapped on-prem environments. You will own target architecture, hosting, and platform tooling, including GPU workloads and sandboxed browser environments.

You will lead platform engineering, mentor a junior DevOps engineer, and drive security-first, policy-as-code delivery with GitOps pipelines across environments.