Senior DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer

Client of Salt; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 320,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

Client of Salt is seeking a hands-on Senior DevOps Site Reliability Engineer to build and operate the delivery and runtime foundations for a portfolio of modern enterprise applications, workflow platforms and AI-enabled products.

You will work directly with software engineers to create reliable, secure and automated paths from code to production, owning deployment automation, runtime reliability, observability, infrastructure-as-code and operational readiness.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in DevOps/SRE, platform engineering or cloud infra.
• Strong production experience with cloud platforms (Azure preferred).
• Docker and Kubernetes expertise.
• 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 in Python, Go, Bash or equivalent.
• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) experience.
• Azure Service Bus, API Management, Key Vault and related Azure services.
• Enterprise integration platforms.
• SAP-connected environments.
• AI/LLM application deployment.
• High-availability and disaster-recovery architecture.

Responsibilities

• Own cloud infrastructure as code and secure environments.
• Build automated CI/CD pipelines and automated deployments.
• Improve release frequency and reliability with engineers.
• Establish logging, metrics, tracing and alerting for observability.
• Lead root-cause analysis of production incidents.
• Implement least-privilege access and secure deployment patterns.

Skills

6+ years experience

Linux fundamentals

Networking fundamentals

SRE mindset

Scripting (Python/Go/Bash)

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Azure

AWS

GCP

Pulumi

Bicep

AKS

Key Vault

Job description

We are seeking a hands-on Senior DevOps Site Reliability Engineer to build and operate the delivery and runtime foundations for a portfolio of modern enterprise applications workflow platforms and AI-enabled products This is not primarily an infrastructure-administration role You will work directly with software engineers to create reliable secure and automated paths from code to production You will own deployment automation runtime reliability observability infrastructure-as-code and operational readiness across applications that integrate with critical enterprise systems

What You Will Own

Platform amp Infrastructure

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

CI CD amp Developer Productivity

Build automated CI CD pipelines Standardize build test security scanning and deployment processes Automate environment provisioning and configuration Reduce manual deployment steps and production configuration drift Work closely with engineering teams to improve release frequency and reliability

Reliability amp Observability

Establish logging metrics tracing and alerting Define service-level indicators 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

Security amp Operational Controls

Implement least-privilege access and secure deployment patterns Support auditability of infrastructure and production changes Integrate security checks into delivery pipelines Work with security and infrastructure teams to meet enterprise control requirements

Resilience

Support business continuity and disaster-recovery design Define backup restore and recovery procedures Test operational recovery rather than relying solely on documented plans

• 6+ years in DevOps, SRE, platform engineering or cloud infrastructure.
• Strong production experience with Azure, AWS or GCP; Azure strongly preferred.
• 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 capability in Python, Go, Bash or equivalent.
• Strong AdvantageAzure Kubernetes Service.
• Azure Service Bus, API Management, Key Vault and related Azure services.
• Enterprise integration platforms.
• SAP-connected environments.
• AI/LLM application deployment.
• Regulated or government environments.
• High-availability and disaster-recovery architecture.