Senior SRE & DevOps Engineer — AWS, Kubernetes & Cloud

Irisstar; United Arab Emirates; On-site; AED 360,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

Irisstar is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) / Production Engineer in Abu Dhabi to own and support customer-facing production systems. The role emphasizes hands-on work with AWS, EKS, Kubernetes, Python automation, and cloud infrastructure.

You will manage production environments, implement GitOps and IaC, and drive incident response, observability, and continuous improvement while collaborating with stakeholders to enhance reliability and performance.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, Production Engineering, or Software Engineering.
• Strong Python development and automation experience.
• Deep hands-on AWS and EKS/Kubernetes production experience.
• Experience with IAM/IRSA, VPC, S3, ECR, API Gateway, SQS/SNS/EventBridge, and managed databases.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• Candidates must be locally based in Abu Dhabi/UAE.

Responsibilities

• Own and support customer-facing production systems.
• Develop Python-based automation and engineering solutions.
• Manage AWS and Amazon EKS/Kubernetes production environments.
• Configure and optimize HPA, Karpenter/Cluster Autoscaler, networking, ingress, storage, and RBAC.
• Perform Kubernetes cluster upgrades and production maintenance.
• Manage AWS Lambda and serverless architectures.
• Administer IAM/IRSA, VPC, S3, ECR, API Gateway, SQS, SNS, EventBridge, and managed databases.
• Manage Helm and Kustomize deployments.
• Implement GitOps and Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CDK, or CloudFormation.
• Support CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Monitor production systems using CloudWatch, X-Ray, and CloudTrail.
• Participate in incident management, on-call support, postmortems, and production troubleshooting.
• Define and monitor SLOs and reliability objectives.
• Troubleshoot Linux, containers, networking, and distributed systems.
• Work with stakeholders and technical teams to improve system reliability and performance.

Skills

Python development

AWS

Kubernetes

Automation

GitOps

Terraform

CI/CD

Linux

Observability

SRE/DevOps

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Helm

Kustomize

Terraform

CloudFormation

CDK

Job description

Irisstar is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) / Production Engineer in Abu Dhabi to own and support customer-facing production systems. The role emphasizes hands-on work with AWS, EKS, Kubernetes, Python automation, and cloud infrastructure.

You will manage production environments, implement GitOps and IaC, and drive incident response, observability, and continuous improvement while collaborating with stakeholders to enhance reliability and performance.