Senior Platform Engineer (AWS Focus)

Halian; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 320,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

Halian in the United Arab Emirates is seeking a senior cloud engineer with extensive AWS experience to design and deliver scalable cloud platforms for enterprise workloads.

You will work across Terraform, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and networking to build secure, resilient solutions in a fast-paced environment near Abu Dhabi.

The role emphasizes IaC best practices, reusable platform components, and collaboration with development teams to drive cloud-native adoption.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of hands-on cloud engineering experience on AWS.
• Expert level Terraform IaC and reusable platform engineering.
• Experience building cloud-native platforms with Kubernetes and containers.
• Familiarity with AWS Bedrock, SageMaker is a plus.

Skills

AWS

Terraform

Kubernetes

CI/CD

API Gateway

VPC Networking

Event-driven

AI/ML Platform

Bedrock/SageMaker

Tools

CI/CD

Job description

Experience: 6+ Years

What We’re Looking For:

• Strong hands-on experience across the AWS ecosystem, including EKS, Lambda, EventBridge, API Gateway, IAM, VPC, and CloudWatch
• Expert-level Terraform experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and reusable platform engineering practices
• Experience building and managing cloud-native platforms, Kubernetes environments, containers, and event-driven architectures
• Exposure to AWS Bedrock, SageMaker, and AI/ML platform services is highly preferred
• Strong knowledge of AWS networking, including VPCs, Subnetting, Route 53, and Direct Connect
• Proven experience with GitHub Actions, CI/CD pipelines, API Gateway/Kong, and cloud architecture design