Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Azure)

SALT; United Arab Emirates; On-site; AED 420,000 - 540,000; Full time

Job summary

SALT in Abu Dhabi seeks a hands-on Senior DevOps / SRE to build and operate the delivery and runtime foundations for a portfolio of modern enterprise applications, workflow platforms and AI-enabled products.

This role focuses on not just infrastructure administration but close collaboration with software engineers to create reliable, secure, and automated paths from code to production, owning deployment automation, runtime reliability, observability, and operational readiness across critical

Qualifications

• 6+ years in DevOps, SRE, platform engineering or cloud infra.
• Strong production experience with Azure, AWS or GCP; Azure preferred.
• Docker and Kubernetes experience.
• IaC using Terraform, Bicep, Pulumi or equivalent.
• CI/CD using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI or similar.
• Strong Linux and networking fundamentals.
• Observability tooling and distributed-system troubleshooting.
• Secure secrets, identity and access-management patterns.
• Production incident-management experience.
• Scripting/programming in Python, Go, Bash or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Own deployment automation and runtime reliability end-to-end.
• Define secure, repeatable environments across dev, test, staging and prod.
• Manage containerized workloads and Kubernetes deployments.
• Establish logging, metrics, tracing and alerting; build health dashboards.
• Lead incident analysis and post-incident reviews; drive improvements.
• Integrate security checks into delivery pipelines and access controls.

Skills

Cloud platforms

SRE practices

Linux fundamentals

Networking principles

Python/Go scripting

Incident management

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Bicep

Pulumi

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Job description

Location: Abu Dhabi, UAE

Employment: 12-months initial (contract to perm)

We are seeking a hands-on Senior DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer to build and operate the delivery and runtime foundations for a portfolio of modern enterprise applications, workflow platforms and AI-enabled products.

This is not primarily an infrastructure-administration role. You will work directly with software engineers to create reliable, secure and automated paths from code to production.

You will own deployment automation, runtime reliability, observability, infrastructure-as-code and operational readiness across applications that integrate with critical enterprise systems.

What You Will Own

Platform & Infrastructure

• Build and maintain cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code.
• Design secure, repeatable environments across development, test, staging and production.
• Manage containerized workloads and Kubernetes-based deployments where appropriate.
• Define standard application deployment patterns for backend, frontend and AI services.
• Implement secure secrets and configuration management.
• Support network, identity and connectivity requirements for enterprise integrations.

CI/CD & Developer Productivity

• Build automated CI/CD pipelines.
• Standardize build, test, security scanning and deployment processes.
• Automate environment provisioning and configuration.
• Reduce manual deployment steps and production configuration drift.
• Work closely with engineering teams to improve release frequency and reliability.

Reliability & Observability

• Establish logging, metrics, tracing and alerting.
• Define service-level indicators and operational thresholds.
• Build dashboards for system health and application performance.
• Implement incident-response and production-support practices.
• Design for graceful degradation, retries, failover and recovery.
• Lead root-cause analysis of production incidents.

Security & Operational Controls

• Implement least-privilege access and secure deployment patterns.
• Support auditability of infrastructure and production changes.
• Integrate security checks into delivery pipelines.
• Work with security and infrastructure teams to meet enterprise control requirements.

Resilience

• Support business continuity and disaster-recovery design.
• Define backup, restore and recovery procedures.
• Test operational recovery rather than relying solely on documented plans.

Required Experience

• 6+ years in DevOps, SRE, platform engineering or cloud infrastructure.
• Strong production experience with Azure, AWS or GCP; Azure strongly preferred.
• Docker and Kubernetes.
• Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Bicep, Pulumi or equivalent.
• CI/CD using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI or similar.
• Strong Linux and networking fundamentals.
• Observability tooling and distributed-system troubleshooting.
• Secure secrets, identity and access-management patterns.
• Production incident-management experience.
• Scripting/programming capability in Python, Go, Bash or equivalent.

Strong Advantage

• Azure Kubernetes Service.
• Azure Service Bus, API Management, Key Vault and related Azure services.
• Enterprise integration platforms.
• SAP-connected environments.
• AI/LLM application deployment.
• Regulated or government environments.
• High-availability and disaster-recovery architecture.