Senior Platform Engineer - Cloud & Kubernetes

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Experience: 5+ yrs

Location: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Job Type: Full-time

We are looking for an experienced Senior Platform Engineer to design, implement, secure, and operate scalable cloud-native platforms using Microsoft Azure and Kubernetes. The role focuses on building highly available, resilient, secure, and well-governed production environments while driving automation, observability, infrastructure-as-code, and platform engineering best practices.

The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on expertise across Azure, AKS, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, cloud governance, security, observability, and Disaster Recovery, along with the ability to provide technical leadership across complex platform environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage Microsoft Azure infrastructure and AKS/Kubernetes platforms.
• Implement and maintain Disaster Recovery, backup, restore, and business continuity solutions.
• Build infrastructure automation using Terraform, Helm, Azure DevOps, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Manage Kubernetes networking, ingress, storage, namespaces, resource limits, security, and platform configurations.
• Implement observability solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and related monitoring technologies.
• Manage TLS certificates, secrets, access controls, RBAC, and platform security mechanisms.
• Establish cloud and Kubernetes governance covering resource organisation, naming, tagging, security policies, and operational standards.
• Define Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD governance, including reusable Terraform modules, state management, code reviews, approval gates, environment promotion, and artifact management.
• Participate in architecture and technical design reviews for platforms, applications, integrations, and infrastructure changes.
• Drive security and compliance readiness through vulnerability remediation, access reviews, security baselines, audit controls, and policy enforcement.
• Define and monitor platform availability, SLIs, SLOs, capacity, performance, and operational health.
• Lead incident and problem management, including root-cause analysis, corrective actions, and prevention of recurring issues.
• Perform capacity planning, performance optimisation, and cloud cost optimisation / FinOps activities.
• Own DR testing, RTO/RPO validation, backup and recovery standards, and periodic recovery exercises.
• Plan and execute platform migrations, infrastructure upgrades, and cloud transformation initiatives.
• Evaluate emerging platform technologies, conduct POCs, and establish approved patterns for production adoption.
• Maintain technical documentation including HLDs, LLDs, architecture diagrams, SOPs, runbooks, troubleshooting guides, and DR procedures.
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and knowledge sharing across platform engineering teams.

What Makes You a Great Fit

• 5+ years of experience in platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, or related roles.
• Strong hands-on expertise in Microsoft Azure and Kubernetes, particularly AKS.
• Strong experience with Docker, Helm, Terraform, and Azure DevOps / CI/CD.
• Good understanding of Azure networking, including VNets, NSGs, Private Endpoints, and Azure Firewall.
• Experience implementing observability using Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, or similar platforms.
• Strong knowledge of Linux, Bash scripting, Git, and GitOps practices.
• Proven experience with Disaster Recovery, backup/restore, RTO/RPO planning, and recovery testing.
• Strong understanding of Kubernetes security, governance, RBAC, policy enforcement, and Azure Policy.
• Experience establishing reusable Infrastructure-as-Code patterns and platform engineering standards.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD governance, release controls, environment promotion, and source-control standards.
• Experience working with databases such as PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL, or Azure SQL.
• Strong knowledge of incident management, problem management, RCA, capacity planning, performance optimisation, and cloud cost management.
• Experience working in security-, compliance-, audit-, or governance-controlled environments.
• Ability to create and maintain HLDs, LLDs, architecture diagrams, operational runbooks, SOPs, and technical documentation.
• Strong experience participating in architecture and technical design reviews.
• Excellent troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving capabilities.
• Strong technical leadership, mentoring, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Experience in banking or other regulated industries would be an advantage.
• Strong understanding of high availability, production operations, platform modernisation, and cloud transformation initiatives.