Senior DevOps & SRE Engineer - Azure, CI/CD, Observability

Stellar Technologies; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 360,000 - 540,000; Full time

Job summary

Stellar Technologies in Abu Dhabi, UAE is seeking a Senior DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer to design and scale cloud-native platforms on Azure, focusing on reliability, security, and automation.

You will own CI/CD pipelines, IaC with Terraform and Helm, AKS management, observability stack including Azure Monitor, Grafana and Application Insights, and incident response practices, collaborating across dev, QA and architecture teams.

Qualifications

• Strong expertise in Azure DevOps (Pipelines, Repos, Artifacts)
• Deep knowledge of Terraform and Helm for IaC and Kubernetes management
• Hands-on experience with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and related Azure services (Functions, App Gateway, VNets, Key Vault)
• Proficiency in observability tools – Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Prometheus, Grafana
• Solid understanding of Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD workflows

Responsibilities

• CI/CD Pipeline Development - Build and manage scalable CI/CD pipelines for web and mobile applications.
• Pull Request Validation Workflows - Implement automated PR pipelines with linting, static analysis, unit testing, and integration checks to enforce code quality.
• Security & Code Quality Automation - Integrate SonarQube, SCA, and vulnerability scanning tools to enforce compliance and security.
• Environment-Specific Deployments - Configure deployment strategies with approval gates, rollback mechanisms, and environment-specific variables.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) - Automate infrastructure provisioning using Terraform and Helm charts.
• Azure Cloud Management - Ensure availability, scalability, and resilience of applications hosted on Azure (AKS, App Services, VMs, Functions, App Gateway, VNets, Key Vault).
• Observability & Monitoring - Implement monitoring with Azure Monitor, Grafana, Prometheus, Application Insights and set up custom alerts/dashboards.
• Secrets Management - Manage and secure secrets via Azure Key Vault and integrate them with CI/CD pipelines.
• Incident Response & SRE Practices - Establish on-call rotations, conduct postmortems, and apply reliability engineering practices for system stability.
• Collaboration - Work closely with development, QA, and architecture teams to align with DevSecOps best practices.
• Capacity & Reliability Planning - Contribute to scalability, cost optimization, and long-term infrastructure planning.

Job description

Stellar Technologies in Abu Dhabi, UAE is seeking a Senior DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer to design and scale cloud-native platforms on Azure, focusing on reliability, security, and automation.

You will own CI/CD pipelines, IaC with Terraform and Helm, AKS management, observability stack including Azure Monitor, Grafana and Application Insights, and incident response practices, collaborating across dev, QA and architecture teams.