Job description

The IT Infrastructure Administrator / Reliability Engineer role operates and secures an on-premise Kubernetes platform based on VMware Tanzu to support critical public digital services within a UAE Federal Government environment. The role focuses on ensuring platform reliability, availability, security hardening, and operational stability of containerized workloads running in production. Responsibilities include administering Kubernetes clusters and managing container orchestration systems while maintaining core supporting infrastructure components such as Harbor for container registry management, HashiCorp Vault for secrets management, Redis for caching and in-memory data services, and NGINX for load balancing and traffic routing. The position requires continuous monitoring of systems and logs using the ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) to ensure performance visibility, incident detection, and operational troubleshooting. A key responsibility is leading infrastructure security hardening initiatives, including vulnerability remediation, system configuration strengthening, and adherence to security best practices in on-prem environments. The role also involves supporting CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps to ensure automated, secure, and reliable application delivery into Kubernetes environments. Additionally, the engineer ensures high availability architecture, backup strategies, and disaster recovery processes are properly implemented and maintained to support mission-critical public services. The position requires strong expertise in maintaining secure, scalable, and resilient infrastructure systems in regulated government environments with a strong emphasis on operational reliability and cybersecurity posture.