Sovereign AI DevOps Engineer — On-Prem & Cloud

Xpin AI; Dubai; On-site; AED 400,000 - 700,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

UAE employment visa sponsorship

Medical insurance

Annual leave and flight allowance

Job summary

Xpin AI is hiring a Senior Platform Engineer in Dubai to own the deployment and operations layer across on-premise sovereign environments and cloud platforms. The role requires deep Linux and Kubernetes skills, with experience in air-gapped, no-egress deployments and strong security practices.

You will build infrastructure as code, GitOps, and an offline artifact pipeline, standing up GPU clusters and enabling one deployment path across environments. Travel to GCC client sites is expected.

Qualifications

• Has run Kubernetes in production across on-prem and cloud.
• Experience with air-gapped or no-egress environments.
• Proficient in Python and Linux with strong security practices.
• Willing to travel to GCC client sites.

Responsibilities

• Own the offline software supply chain and artifact promotion.
• Provision GPU clusters on bare metal including NVIDIA H200 servers.
• Unify deployment paths across sovereign and cloud with declarative tooling.
• Maintain observability, security baselines, and runbooks for on-site deployments.

Skills

Linux fundamentals

Willing to travel

Security mindset

Customer-facing collaboration

Tools

Kubernetes

Azure

GCP

Terraform

CI/CD

GitOps

Packer

Ansible

Bare metal provisioning

Job description

Xpin AI is hiring a Senior Platform Engineer in Dubai to own the deployment and operations layer across on-premise sovereign environments and cloud platforms. The role requires deep Linux and Kubernetes skills, with experience in air-gapped, no-egress deployments and strong security practices.

You will build infrastructure as code, GitOps, and an offline artifact pipeline, standing up GPU clusters and enabling one deployment path across environments. Travel to GCC client sites is expected.