Senior Cloud and DevOps Engineer - Azure Applications

Blackstone eIT; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Blackstone eIT in Abu Dhabi seeks an experienced IT platform engineer to own Azure application environments, deployment automation and operational reliability across digital platforms. You will collaborate with security teams on shared infrastructure and recovery requirements.

You will build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for Next.js, React, Node.js, .NET and Strapi, implement IaC, and oversee monitoring, incident response and cost optimization.

Responsibilities

• Configure and maintain Azure development, UAT and production environments for web apps, APIs, CMS and services.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for Next.js, React, Node.js, .NET and Strapi apps.
• Maintain infrastructure as code with versioned changes and environment consistency.
• Implement deployment checks, approvals, rollback procedures and release traceability.
• Establish application health checks, logs, dashboards and actionable alerts; investigate production incidents.
• Configure identities, access controls, certificates and secret management with security owners.
• Assess scaling, resource usage and availability; implement improvements.
• Monitor expenditure, identify waste and propose capacity/config changes.
• Coordinate application/database backup requirements and validate restorations.
• Maintain environment inventories, deployment guides, runbooks and knowledge transfer.

Skills

Azure

CI/CD

Next.js

React

Node.js

.NET

Strapi

IaC

Monitoring

Identity & Secrets

Recovery

Documentation

Job description

Job description

Job Purpose

Own Azure application environments, deployment automation, monitoring and operational reliability for the Chamber’s digital platforms. Work with Technical Support and security teams on shared infrastructure, connectivity, protection and recovery requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Azure Environments: Configure and maintain development, UAT and production environments for web applications, APIs, CMS and supporting services.
• Deployment Automation: Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for Next.js, React, Node.js, .NET and Strapi applications.
• Infrastructure as Code: Maintain repeatable infrastructure configuration, version-controlled changes and environment consistency.
• Release Management: Implement deployment checks, approval controls, rollback procedures and release traceability.
• Monitoring and Reliability: Establish application health checks, logs, dashboards and actionable alerts; investigate production incidents.
• Identity and Secrets: Configure application identities, access controls, certificates and secrets management in coordination with security owners.
• Performance and Capacity: Assess application scaling, resource utilization and availability requirements; implement agreed improvements.
• Cloud Cost Management: Monitor expenditure, identify waste and recommend capacity and configuration changes.
• Recovery: Coordinate application/database backup requirements with Technical Support and validate restoration and recovery procedures.
• Operational Documentation: Maintain environment inventories, deployment guides, runbooks and knowledge transfer.