Senior Platform Engineer – Azure Focus

D4 Insight; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 350,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

D4 Insight in Abu Dhabi is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design, build, and scale the Azure AI Platform as a reusable enterprise product. The role focuses on cloud-native platform capabilities and hybrid-cloud ecosystems for a large financial enterprise.

You will own AI service operationalization, security, reusable platform components, and automated infrastructure controls, with hands-on duties across AKS, Azure OpenAI, and API management.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience with the Azure Cloud Platform.
• Proficient in Terraform-driven infrastructure and automated testing.
• Hands-on experience with AKS, Azure Container Apps, and Kubernetes.
• Experience implementing security and compliance through policy-as-code.
• Familiarity with Azure OpenAI Service and Azure AI Foundry.

Responsibilities

• Architect and deploy production-ready modular Azure AI platform capabilities.
• Define platform boundaries, service contracts, tenancy patterns, scaling models, and secure integration standards.
• Build shared AI service capabilities by standardizing access to: Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search, Document Intelligence, and agent/orchestration patterns.
• Standardize application consumption through APIs, SDKs, templates, and reference implementations.
• Define reusable Terraform modules and templated infrastructure patterns.
• Build standardized network, identity, security, tagging, and observability capabilities into infrastructure provisioning.
• Implement policy-as-code and automated validation for naming, approved SKUs, network isolation, and compliance.
• Provide self-service provisioning through GitHub Actions or platform APIs.
• Establish reusable platform patterns, release management, documentation, and onboarding journeys.
• Engineer production runtimes on AKS and Azure Container Apps for APIs, agents, MCP servers, and asynchronous workloads.
• Manage API lifecycles using Azure API Management and Kong.

Skills

Azure Cloud Platform

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Azure OpenAI Service

Azure AI Foundry

AKS

Azure Container Apps

Kubernetes

Security & Compliance Automation

Platform Architecture

Tools

Azure API Management

Kong

Job description

Role Overview

We are looking for

Location: Abu Dhabi, UAE
Experience: 8+ Years

Role Overview

We are looking for Senior Platform Engineer to design, build, scale, and evolve the Azure AI Platform as a reusable enterprise product.

The role focuses on building cloud-native platform capabilities and hybrid-cloud ecosystems for a large financial enterprise, with particular emphasis on AI service operationalization, security, reusable platform products, and automated infrastructure controls.

Key Responsibilities

Azure AI Platform Engineering

• Architect and deploy production-ready modular Azure AI platform capabilities.
• Define platform boundaries, service contracts, tenancy patterns, scaling models, and secure integration standards.
• Build shared AI service capabilities by standardizing access to:
• Azure OpenAI
• Azure AI Search
• Document Intelligence
• Agent and tool orchestration patterns
  

Infrastructure as Code & Automation

• Standardize application consumption through APIs, SDKs, templates, and reference implementations.
• Define reusable Terraform modules and templatized infrastructure patterns.
• Build standardized network, identity, security, tagging, and observability capabilities into infrastructure provisioning.
• Implement policy-as-code and automated validation for naming, approved SKUs, network isolation, and compliance.
  

Platform Operations

• Provide self-service provisioning through GitHub Actions or platform APIs.
• Establish reusable platform patterns, release management, documentation, and onboarding journeys.
• Engineer production runtimes on AKS and Azure Container Apps for APIs, agents, MCP servers, and asynchronous workloads.
• Manage API lifecycles using Azure API Management and Kong.
  

Required Skills & Experience

• 8+ years of experience with the Azure Cloud Platform.
• Strong expertise in Terraform and GitHub Actions, including modular design, automated testing, and controlled promotion.
• Familiarity with Azure AI Foundry and Azure OpenAI Service.
• Expert knowledge of network architecture including:
• VNETs
• Peering
• Firewalls
• Private Links
• Hands-on experience with Azure API Management or Kong.
• Strong Cloud Architecture and Solution Architecture capabilities.
• Deep hands-on expertise with:
• AKS
• Azure Container Apps
• Azure AI Foundry
• Azure OpenAI
• APIM
• Identity
• Experience with Kubernetes, containers, platform APIs, SDK design, observability, and SRE practices.
• Ability to translate security, risk, and compliance requirements into automated platform controls.