Senior Platform Engineer

Remotedxb; Dubai; On-site; AED 420,000 - 640,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous PTO

Employer covered health insurance

Parental leave

Job summary

inKind seeks a senior AWS infrastructure lead in Dubai to own and evolve scalable cloud infrastructure across compute, networking, storage, and managed services. You will drive platform-level architectural decisions and migrations while shaping repeatable deployment pipelines.

The role emphasizes high availability, incident debugging for networking and scaling, and strong observability with IaC using Terraform or CloudFormation.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience building and operating production infrastructure in cloud environments.
• Deep experience with AWS core services (EC2, ECS/EKS, VPC, IAM, RDS, ElastiCache, ALB/NLB, CloudWatch).
• Strong understanding of containerized workloads and orchestration tradeoffs.
• Proven experience designing systems for high availability and fault tolerance.
• Hands‑on experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Demonstrated ability to plan and execute infrastructure migrations safely.
• Experience debugging real production incidents involving networking or scaling.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve AWS infrastructure across compute, networking, storage, and managed services.
• Lead platform-level architectural decisions and service migrations.
• Design and maintain safe, repeatable, and observable deployment pipelines.
• Own system reliability through capacity planning and failure modeling.
• Build and maintain strong observability across infrastructure and services.
• Ensure secure configuration of AWS resources and IAM policies.
• Partner with application engineers to establish infrastructure standards.

Job description

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve AWS infrastructure across compute, networking, storage, and managed services
• Lead platform-level architectural decisions and service migrations
• Design and maintain safe, repeatable, and observable deployment pipelines
• Own system reliability through capacity planning and failure modeling
• Build and maintain strong observability across infrastructure and services
• Ensure secure configuration of AWS resources and IAM policies
• Partner with application engineers to establish infrastructure standards

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience building and operating production infrastructure in cloud environments
• Deep experience with AWS core services (EC2, ECS/EKS, VPC, IAM, RDS, ElastiCache, ALB/NLB, CloudWatch)
• Strong understanding of containerized workloads and orchestration tradeoffs
• Proven experience designing systems for high availability and fault tolerance
• Hands‑on experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Demonstrated ability to plan and execute infrastructure migrations safely
• Experience debugging real production incidents involving networking or scaling

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience operating infrastructure for financial systems
• Experience scaling infrastructure through periods of rapid growth
• Comfort working with a Rails-based application stack

Benefits

• Generous PTO and company holiday policy
• 100% employer covered health and dental insurance for direct employees
• Child Care Benefits and generous parental leave

About the Company

inKind connects passionate diners with exceptional restaurants across the country, helping guests earn rewards while supporting the restaurant community.