Senior Cloud Platform Engineer: Kubernetes as a Service

Discovered MENA; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 300,000 - 540,000; Full time

Job summary

Discovered MENA is seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to lead the design and evolution of a massive, customer-facing cloud platform in the UAE. You will architect Kubernetes as a Service and Managed Data Services at scale, delivering PostgreSQL, MySQL, Kafka, and Redis with production-grade operators and robust security.

Role focuses on reliability, disaster recovery, and scalable infrastructure, with exposure to multi-tenant security, IAM integration, and modern observability tooling.

Qualifications

• Expert-level hands-on experience with Kubernetes/OpenShift and underlying cloud infrastructure frameworks.
• Solid foundation in Linux internals, networking, DNS, PKI, load balancing, and storage integrations.

Responsibilities

• Design, engineer, and implement Kubernetes as a Service and Managed Data Platform services for global enterprise customers.
• Architect managed PostgreSQL, MySQL, Kafka, and Redis services using production-grade operators.
• Own day-to-day reliability, backup architectures, disaster recovery, scaling, and connection pooling.
• Implement multi-tenant operational security including mTLS, credential rotation, IAM integration, secure parameter baselines, and image vulnerability management.

Skills

Kubernetes/OpenShift

Cloud infrastructure

Linux internals

Networking/DNS/PKI

Load balancing

Storage integrations

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Argo CD

Flux

Crossplane

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Discovered MENA is seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to lead the design and evolution of a massive, customer-facing cloud platform in the UAE. You will architect Kubernetes as a Service and Managed Data Services at scale, delivering PostgreSQL, MySQL, Kafka, and Redis with production-grade operators and robust security.

Role focuses on reliability, disaster recovery, and scalable infrastructure, with exposure to multi-tenant security, IAM integration, and modern observability tooling.