Senior DevOps Engineer (m/f/d)

Halian; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 350,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

Halian is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to design, build, and operate Azure-native environments at scale in Abu Dhabi. You will own end-to-end CI/CD, infrastructure, observability, security, and cost optimization across a modern microservices platform.

This hands-on role requires ownership of production systems, automation, and proactive improvements in security, scalability, and efficiency, with exposure to AI/ML enhancements in platform engineering.

Qualifications

• Deep hands-on experience with Azure DevOps and CI/CD pipelines across multiple environments.
• Strong automation skills including IaC (Terraform/ARM) and GitOps practices.
• Security-focused delivery lifecycle with SAST/DAST/secret scanning and policy-as-code.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain end-to-end CI/CD pipelines for complex microservices on Azure.
• Own Azure infrastructure (AKS, Front Door, APIM, ACR) with reliability and cost efficiency.
• Implement IaC and GitOps as source of truth for deployments.
• Embed security into delivery lifecycle (DevSecOps) with scanning and policy-as-code.
• Drive observability with dashboards, tracing, and fast incident diagnosis.
• Champion FinOps and cost-awareness across engineering and finance.

Skills

Azure DevOps

CI/CD

Azure AKS

Terraform

Python

Security

FinOps

Observability

Tools

GitHub Actions

ArgoCD

Azure DevOps REST APIs

Job description

Senior DevOps Engineer

Location: Abu Dhabi, UAE

Experience: 8+ years

About the Role

We are looking for a highly skilled Senior DevOps Engineer to help design, build, and operate large-scale, production-grade Azure environments. You will work across the full delivery chain from CI/CD and infrastructure to observability, security, and cost on a modern, Azure-native, microservices-based platform.

This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who’s comfortable owning production systems end to end, automating everything that can be automated, and raising the bar on security, scalability, and cost efficiency across the team. Curiosity about applying AI/ML to platform engineering, multi-agent assistants, MCP-based integrations, Azure AI Foundry is a real plus.

What You’ll Do

• Design, build, and maintain end-to-end CI/CD pipelines for complex microservices across Dev/ Test / Staging / Prod, including build fan-out, parallel lanes, quality gates, and controlled release/promotion strategies.
• Own and evolve Azure infrastructure AKS, Azure Front Door, Application Gateway, APIM, ACR, Azure DevOps, and supporting services with a focus on reliability, security, and scalability.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code and GitOps practices as the source of truth for environments and deployments.
• Embed security into the delivery lifecycle (DevSecOps): SAST, DAST, SCA, container image scanning, secret scanning, and policy-as-code.
• Drive observability: instrumentation, dashboards, alerting, distributed tracing, and fast diagnosis of production issues.
• Champion FinOps and cost-awareness monitor, allocate, and optimize cloud spend, and partner with engineering and finance stakeholders.
• Contribute to AI-augmented DevOps initiatives MCP server/tool integration and multi-agent assistants on Azure AI Foundry / Azure OpenAI.
• Troubleshoot production incidents, optimize for performance and cost, and continuously improve platform engineering practices.

Must-Have Skills

Azure DevOps Suite

Deep hands-on experience with Azure Repos, Azure YAML Pipelines, Azure Artifacts, and Azure Test Plans, plus Azure DevOps REST APIs and extensions.

CI/CD & Deployment

End-to-end pipelines for complex applications across all environments; GitHub Actions; blue-green and canary deployment strategies.

Azure Cloud Services

Production-grade experience across the Azure ecosystem, including APIM, Azure Front Door, App gateway and CDN.

Containerization & Orchestration

Docker, Kubernetes (AKS), Helm, and GitOps delivery with ArgoCD or Flux. Service mesh experience (Istio / Linkerd) a strong plus.

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform (Azure provider, remote state in Azure Storage, Azure Verified Modules), ARM templates, and Azure Resource Graph.

DevSecOps

Security integrated into CI/CD, with tools such as SonarQube, HashiCorp Vault, and HP Fortify. Familiarity with SAST, DAST, SCA, container/image scanning, secret scanning, and policy-as-code.

Observability & Monitoring

Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics, Kusto Query Language (KQL), and Azure Workbooks. Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace, or the Elastic/Kibana stack is a plus.

FinOps & Cost Optimization

Hands-on experience implementing FinOps practices and tooling to monitor, allocate, and optimize cloud spend.

Automation & Scripting

PowerShell, Azure CLI, Azure PowerShell module, Python, and Bash.

Code Quality & Version Control

Git, GitHub, Azure Repos, branching strategies (GitFlow, trunk-based development), and pull request policies.

Architecture & Culture

Microservices and serverless architectures on Azure; strong grasp of Agile/DevOps culture, the Azure Well-Architected Framework, and the Cloud Adoption Framework.

AI / MLOps (advantageous)

Exposure to Azure AI Foundry, Azure Machine Learning, Azure OpenAI Service, and Azure AI Search - plus MCP server and MCP tool integration experience.

Nice to Have

• Certifications: Microsoft Certified DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400), Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305), Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104), Azure Security Engineer Associate (AZ-500), FinOps Certified Practitioner, or Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS).
• Experience with Azure Landing Zones and enterprise-scale architectures.
• A track record of driving cost-awareness culture across engineering teams and partnering with finance stakeholders.

Why Join Us

You’ll join a strong platform engineering team operating a modern, Azure-native platform at real scale, with genuine ownership, autonomy, and room to shape both the infrastructure and the next generation of AI-augmented DevOps tooling. If you like solving hard production problems and building things properly, you will fit right in.