About this opening
Exclusive Talent Management is hiring a Senior DevOps Engineer in Abu Dhabi, on a contract basis, to build and operate the infrastructure and release pipelines behind an enterprise-scale AI platform. The role owns how services are built, deployed and kept running, across development, test and secure on-premise production environments.
What the role involves
- Design, build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for a microservices platform, and automate build, test and release workflows
- Provision and manage infrastructure as code, keeping environments reproducible and version-controlled
- Operate Docker and Kubernetes clusters at production scale, including deployment strategies, scaling and resource management
- Support shared platform services such as API gateways and ingress, databases and service-to-service messaging
- Deploy and run the platform in secure on-premise environments, alongside cloud infrastructure where used
- Implement monitoring, logging and alerting, and lead incident response, backup and recovery and capacity planning
Requirements noted by the source board
- Expert proficiency building CI/CD pipelines with tools such as GitLab CI, Jenkins, GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps
- Strong hands-on Docker and Kubernetes experience in production, including Helm and GitOps-style deployment
- Proven infrastructure-as-code experience with Terraform, Ansible or similar tooling
- Production experience with at least one major cloud platform, plus Linux-based on-premise infrastructure
- 5+ years in DevOps, platform engineering or site reliability roles, 8+ years preferred (as listed on the board)
Not stated by the source: the contract length — the source listing lists this opening as a contract role without stating its length, so confirm the length and the full package on the source listing before you apply.
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