Sovereign Cloud DevOps Engineer: Kubernetes & AI

NCO; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

NCO in United Arab Emirates seeks a mid-level DevOps professional to stand up and operate environments in a UAE sovereign setting. You will manage containerized deployments, CI/CD, monitoring, backup/DR, and security operations across development to production.

Requirements include 5+ years in DevOps or related fields, experience with sovereign/government or private clouds, and familiarity with Docker/Kubernetes, IaC, and SIEM forwarding. GPU-backed AI workloads are a plus.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in DevOps, platform or infrastructure engineering.
• Experience with sovereign, government or private-cloud environments.
• Experience operating GPU-backed AI workloads is an advantage.
• Containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), infrastructure-as-code.
• CI/CD pipelines, release management, rollback and environment segregation.
• Monitoring, logging and SIEM forwarding (Syslog, API, event streaming).
• Backup, restore and DR operation to agreed RPO/RTO targets.
• Secrets management, network segmentation and hardening.

Responsibilities

• Provision and maintain the six program environments with production data segregation.
• Build and operate CI/CD with controlled releases, rollback and audit evidence.
• Operate monitoring, alerting, backup/DR drills and capacity management including GPU/NPU workloads.
• Forward audit and security events to the client-approved SOC/SIEM; support incident response.
• Support VAPT cycles and close infrastructure findings.

Skills

DevOps

Security operations

GPU AI workloads

CI/CD

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

NCO in United Arab Emirates seeks a mid-level DevOps professional to stand up and operate environments in a UAE sovereign setting. You will manage containerized deployments, CI/CD, monitoring, backup/DR, and security operations across development to production.

Requirements include 5+ years in DevOps or related fields, experience with sovereign/government or private clouds, and familiarity with Docker/Kubernetes, IaC, and SIEM forwarding. GPU-backed AI workloads are a plus.