Senior DevOps Engineer – Cloud Reliability & AI Deployments

Salt

Abu Dhabi

On-site

AED 480,000 - 720,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Salt is seeking a hands-on Senior DevOps/SRE to build and operate the delivery and runtime foundations for enterprise apps, workflow platforms and AI-enabled products. You will work with software engineers to create reliable, secure, automated paths from code to production, owning deployment automation, observability and operational readiness across integrations with critical systems.

You will design secure environments, manage containerized workloads, define deployment patterns for

Qualifications

6+ years in DevOps, SRE, platform engineering or cloud infrastructure.
Docker and Kubernetes.
Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Bicep, Pulumi or equivalent.
CI/CD using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI or similar.
Strong Linux and networking fundamentals.
Observability tooling and distributed-system troubleshooting.
Secure secrets, identity and access-management patterns.
Production incident-management experience.
Scripting/programming: Python, Go, Bash or equivalent.

Responsibilities

Build and maintain cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code.
Design secure, repeatable environments across development, test, staging and production.
Manage containerized workloads and Kubernetes-based deployments where appropriate.
Define standard application deployment patterns for backend, frontend and AI services.
Implement secure secrets and configuration management.
Support network, identity and connectivity requirements for enterprise integrations.
Build automated CI/CD pipelines and standardize build, test, security scanning and deployment processes.
Automate environment provisioning and configuration.
Reduce manual deployment steps and production configuration drift.
Work with engineering teams to improve release frequency and reliability.
Establish logging, metrics, tracing and alerting.
Define SLI and operational thresholds.
Build dashboards for system health and application performance.
Implement incident-response and production-support practices.
Design for graceful degradation, retries, failover and recovery.
Lead root-cause analysis of production incidents.
Implement least-privilege access and secure deployment patterns.
Support auditability of infrastructure and production changes.
Integrate security checks into delivery pipelines.
Meet enterprise control requirements with security and infrastructure teams.
Support business continuity and disaster-recovery design.
Define backup, restore and recovery procedures.