Senior Platform Engineer (AWS Focus)

Tanqeeb; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 350,000 - 550,000; Full time

Job summary

Tanqeeb in Abu Dhabi seeks a senior Platform Infrastructure engineer to design and deploy production-grade AWS AI platform services, with tenancy patterns and landing zones for multiple AI products.

You will own IaC with Terraform, run Kubernetes-based runtimes (EKS, Lambda), and manage Bedrock/SageMaker, IAM, VPC, and API connectivity, while driving cost control and monitoring across the stack.

Qualifications

• Experience with CI/CD (GitHub Actions) and IaC (Terraform) is non-negotiable.
• Deep AWS knowledge across services (Bedrock, SageMaker, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch).
• Strong design and documentation of cloud architectures and diagrams.

Responsibilities

• Design reusable AWS AI platform services and tenancy patterns.
• Deploy production-ready AWS environments from scratch using landing zones.
• Deploy, scale, and manage AWS AI/ML services (Bedrock, SageMaker, Rekognition, Textract, Lookout).
• Standardize deployments with Terraform for modularity and release management.
• Engineer runtime patterns using EKS, Lambda, containers; implement event processing.
• Ensure secure API connectivity via API Gateway and Kong; manage IAM and VPC access.
• Proactively manage cloud costs and implement monitoring/alerting.
• Design automated CI/CD pipelines and self-service templates for onboarding.

Skills

AWS

CI/CD

Terraform

Cloud Architecture

Kubernetes

Event-driven architecture

Tools

AWS API Gateway

Kong

Lambda

Lookout

SageMaker

Job description

• Platform Infrastructure: Design reusable AWS AI platform services as products, contracts and tenancy patterns for multiple AI products. Architect and deploy production-ready AWS environments from scratch using a landing zone approach.

AI Orchestration: Deploy, scale, and manage AWS AI/ML services (Bedrock, SageMaker, Rekognition, Textract, Lookout) to support AI-driven application development.

• Infrastructure as Code: Standardize all deployments using Terraform to ensure consistency and modularity. Build versioned Terraform modules, platform APIs and SDKs with automated validation and release management.

• Runtime: Engineer runtime patterns using EKS, Lambda, containers and asynchronous event processing. Use EventBridge, queues, streams and workflow services to support resilient agent and AI workloads. Experience with Kubernetes, containers, event-driven architecture, platform APIs and SDKs.

• Security: Implement least-privilege IAM, workload identity, secrets management, encryption and private VPC connectivity. Automate security controls, evidence and policy enforcement within delivery pipelines. Design safe service-to-service and cross-account access patterns.

• API & Connectivity: Manage API lifecycles using AWS API Gateway and Kong, ensuring secure and performant communication between services.

FinOps & Monitoring: Proactively manage cloud costs by analyzing SKUs and implementing advanced monitoring/alerting to prevent budget overruns.

Deployment Automation: Design automated GitHub Workflows to enable seamless CI/CD for both infrastructure and application code. Provide self-service onboarding, templates, documentation, reference services and supportable paved roads.

Desired Candidate Profile

• Cloud: 5+ years experience in the AWS ecosystem.

• IaC: Expert-level Terraform skills.

• Run time: Deep expertise with Bedrock, EKS, Lambda, EventBridge, API Gateway, IAM, VPC and CloudWatch.

• AI Stack: Direct experience with AWS Bedrock and SageMaker.

• Networking: Expert knowledge of VPC design, Subnetting, Route 53, and Direct Connect.

• APIs: Hands-on experience with AWS API Gateway or Kong.

Deployment Architecture: Proven ability to create professional Cloud Architecture Diagrams and provide Solutions Architecture guidance.

Note

Experience with CI/CD (GitHub Actions) and IaC (Terraform) should be considered non-negotiable, while specific AI service experience can be developed on the job if the candidate has a strong foundational understanding of Cloud Architecture.

Skills

AWS

Terraform

CI/CD