Senior Platform Engineer - Cloud & Kubernetes

Client of Weekday AI; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 350,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

Client of Weekday AI seeks an experienced Platform Engineer to design, deploy and manage Azure infrastructure and AKS platforms. You will drive automation with Terraform, Helm, and Azure DevOps within a CI/CD workflow, while ensuring security, governance, and disaster recovery readiness.

You will lead capacity planning, monitoring, and cost optimisation, contributing to architecture reviews and cross-team collaboration across platform engineering.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, or related roles.
• Strong hands-on expertise in Microsoft Azure and Kubernetes, particularly AKS.
• Strong experience with Docker, Helm, Terraform, and Azure DevOps / CI/CD.
• Good understanding of Azure networking, VNets, NSGs, Private Endpoints, and Azure Firewall.
• Experience implementing observability using Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, or similar platforms.
• Strong knowledge of Linux, Bash scripting, Git, and GitOps practices.
• Proven experience with Disaster Recovery, backup/restore, RTO/RPO planning, and recovery testing.
• Strong understanding of Kubernetes security, governance, RBAC, policy enforcement, and Azure Policy.
• Experience establishing reusable Infrastructure-as-Code patterns and platform engineering standards.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD governance, release controls, environment promotion, and source-control standards.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy and manage Microsoft Azure infrastructure and AKS Kubernetes platforms.
• Implement and maintain Disaster Recovery backup restore and business continuity solutions.
• Build infrastructure automation using Terraform, Helm, Azure DevOps and CI/CD pipelines.
• Manage Kubernetes networking, ingress, storage, namespaces, resource limits, security and configurations.
• Implement observability solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, Loki and related monitoring tech.
• Manage TLS certs, secrets, access control, RBAC and platform security mechanisms.
• Establish cloud and Kubernetes governance for naming, tagging, policies and standards.
• Define IaC and CI/CD governance with reusable Terraform modules and state management.
• Participate in architecture and design reviews for platforms, apps, integrations, infra changes.
• Drive security and compliance readiness through vulnerability remediation and policy enforcement.
• Define and monitor platform availability, SLIs/SLOs, capacity, performance and health.
• Lead incident and problem management with RCA and corrective actions.
• Perform capacity planning, performance optimization and cloud cost management.
• Plan DR testing, RTO/RPO validation, and recovery exercises.
• Plan migrations, upgrades and cloud transformation initiatives.
• Evaluate emerging platform tech, run POCs and establish approved patterns.
• Maintain documentation: HLDs/LLDs/diagrams/SOPs/runbooks/DR procedures.
• Provide technical leadership and knowledge sharing across teams.

Skills

Azure

Kubernetes

AKS

Docker

Helm

Terraform

Azure DevOps

CI/CD

Linux

Bash scripting

Git

GitOps

Security governance

Incident management

Cost optimisation

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Loki

Azure Monitor

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Azure Policy

RBAC

Job description

Key Responsibilities

• Design deploy and manage Microsoft Azure infrastructure and AKS Kubernetes platforms
• Implement and maintain Disaster Recovery backup restore and business continuity solutions
• Build infrastructure automation using Terraform Helm Azure DevOps and CI CD pipelines
• Manage Kubernetes networking ingress storage namespaces resource limits security and platform configurations
• Implement observability solutions using Prometheus Grafana Loki and related monitoring technologies
• Manage TLS certificates secrets access controls RBAC and platform security mechanisms
• Establish cloud and Kubernetes governance covering resource organisation naming tagging security policies and operational standards
• Define Infrastructure-as-Code and CI CD governance including reusable Terraform modules state management code reviews approval gates environment promotion and artifact management
• Participate in architecture and technical design reviews for platforms applications integrations and infrastructure changes
• Drive security and compliance readiness through vulnerability remediation access reviews security baselines audit controls and policy enforcement
• Define and monitor platform availability SLIs SLOs capacity performance and operational health
• Lead incident and problem management including root-cause analysis corrective actions and prevention of recurring issues
• Perform capacity planning performance optimisation and cloud cost optimisation
• FinOps activities Own DR testing RTO RPO validation backup and recovery standards and periodic recovery exercises
• Plan and execute platform migrations infrastructure upgrades and cloud transformation initiatives
• Evaluate emerging platform technologies conduct POCs and establish approved patterns for production adoption
• Maintain technical documentation including HLDs LLDs architecture diagrams SOPs runbooks troubleshooting guides and DR procedures
• Provide technical leadership mentoring and knowledge sharing across platform engineering teams

What Makes You a Great Fit

• 5+ years of experience in platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, or related roles.
• Strong hands-on expertise in Microsoft Azure and Kubernetes , particularly AKS.
• Strong experience with Docker, Helm, Terraform, and Azure DevOps / CI/CD.
• Good understanding of Azure networking, including VNets, NSGs, Private Endpoints, and Azure Firewall.
• Experience implementing observability using Prometheus, Grafana, Loki , or similar platforms.
• Strong knowledge of Linux, Bash scripting, Git, and GitOps practices .
• Proven experience with Disaster Recovery, backup/restore, RTO/RPO planning, and recovery testing.
• Strong understanding of Kubernetes security, governance, RBAC, policy enforcement, and Azure Policy.
• Experience establishing reusable Infrastructure-as-Code patterns and platform engineering standards.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD governance, release controls, environment promotion, and source-control standards.
• Experience working with databases such as PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL, or Azure SQL.
• Strong knowledge of incident management, problem management, RCA, capacity planning, performance optimisation, and cloud cost management.
• Experience working in security‑control