Overview
Senior DevOps Engineer (m/f/d Jobs in Abu Dhabi, UAE/Dubai at Halian | Managed Services, Recruitment Agency & Contract Staffing
Position: Senior DevOps Engineer (m/f/d)
About The Role
We are looking for a highly skilled Senior Dev Ops Engineer to help design, build, and operate large-scale, production-grade Azure environments. You will work across the full delivery chain from CI/CD and infrastructure to observability, security, and cost on a modern, Azure-native, microservices-based platform.
Senior Dev Ops Engineer
Location: Abu Dhabi, UAE
Experience: 8+ years
About
The Role
We are looking for a highly skilled Senior Dev Ops Engineer to help design, build, and operate large-scale, production-grade Azure environments. You will work across the full delivery chain from CI/CD and infrastructure to observability, security, and cost on a modern, Azure-native, microservices-based platform.
This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who’s comfortable owning production systems end to end, automating everything that can be automated, and raising the bar on security, scalability, and cost efficiency across the team. Curiosity about applying AI/ML to platform engineering, multi-agent assistants, MCP-based integrations, Azure AI Foundry is a real plus.
What You’ll Do
- Design, build, and maintain end-to-end CI/CD pipelines for complex microservices across Dev / Test / Staging / Prod, including build fan-out, parallel lanes, quality gates, and controlled release/promotion strategies.
- Own and evolve Azure infrastructure AKS, Azure Front Door, Application Gateway, APIM, ACR, Azure Dev Ops, and supporting services with a focus on reliability, security, and scalability.
- Implement Infrastructure as Code and Git Ops practices as the source of truth for environments and deployments.
- Embed security into the delivery lifecycle (Dev Sec Ops ): SAST, DAST, SCA, container image scanning, secret scanning, and policy-as-code.
- Drive observability: instrumentation, dashboards, alerting, distributed tracing, and fast diagnosis of production issues.
- Champion Fin Ops and cost-awareness monitor, allocate, and optimize cloud spend, and partner with engineering and finance stakeholders.
- Contribute to AI-augmented Dev Ops initiatives MCP server/tool integration and multi-agent assistants on Azure AI Foundry / Azure OpenAI.
- Troubleshoot production incidents, optimize for performance and cost, and continuously improve platform engineering practices.
Must-Have Skills Azure Dev Ops Suite
Deep hands‑on experience with Azure Repos, Azure YAML Pipelines, Azure Artifacts, and Azure Test Plans, plus Azure Dev Ops REST APIs and extensions.
CI/CD & Deployment
End‑to‑end pipelines for complex applications across all environments;
Git Hub Actions; blue‑green and canary deployment strategies.
Azure Cloud Services
Production‑grade experience across the Azure ecosystem, including APIM, Azure Front Door, App gateway and CDN.
Containerization & Orchestration
Docker, Kubernetes (AKS), Helm, and Git Ops delivery with ArgoCD or Flux. Service mesh experience (Istio / Linkerd) a strong plus.
Infrastructure as Code
Terraform (Azure provider, remote state in Azure Storage, Azure Verified Modules), ARM templates, and Azure Resource Graph.
Dev Sec Ops
Security integrated into CI/CD, with tools such as Sonar Qube, Hashi Corp Vault, and HP Fortify. Familiarity with SAST, DAST, SCA, container/image scanning, secret scanning, and policy-as-code.
Observability & Monitoring
Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics, Kusto Query Language (KQL), and Azure Workbooks. Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace, or the Elastic/Kibana stack is a plus.
Fin Ops & Cost Optimization
Hands‑on experience implementing Fin Ops practices and tooling to monitor, allocate, and optimize cloud spend.
Automation & Scripting
Power Shell, Azure CLI, Azure Power Shell module, Python, and Bash.
Code Quality & Version Control
Git, Git Hub, Azure Repos, branching strategies (Git Flow, trunk‑based development), and pull request policies.
Architecture & Culture
Microservices and serverless architectures on Azure; strong grasp of Agile/Dev Ops culture, the Azure Well‑Architected Framework, and the Cloud Adoption Framework.
AI / MLOps (advantageous)
Exposure to Azure AI Foundry, Azure Machine Learning, Azure OpenAI Service, and Azure AI Search — plus MCP server and MCP…
Title: Senior DevOps Engineer (m/f/d
Company: Halian | Managed Services, Recruitment Agency & Contract Staffing
Location: Abu Dhabi, UAE/Dubai
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