Robert Walters
Senior Platform Engineer
- Permanent
- Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Experience 2 - 5 yrs
Job expiry date: 19/11/2026
Job overview
Date posted
05/10/2026
Location
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Salary
AED 20,000 - 30,000 per month
Compensation
Comprehensive package
Experience
2 - 5 yrs
Seniority
Senior & Lead
Qualification
Bachelors degree
Expiration date
19/11/2026
Job description
Microsoft Azure and AKS clusters form the core of the platforms this Senior Platform Engineer designs, builds and runs for a financial services organisation in Abu Dhabi. Infrastructure and deployments are automated with Terraform, Helm and Azure DevOps, under governance that covers reusable modules, state management, approval gates and environment promotion. Kubernetes networking, ingress, storage, secrets, TLS certificates and RBAC all need careful control. Observability runs on Prometheus, Grafana and Loki, tied to SLIs, SLOs, capacity planning and cost optimisation. Disaster Recovery is owned end to end, from backup and restore standards to RTO/RPO validation and evidence from recovery exercises. Production incidents get troubleshot quickly, followed by root cause analysis and corrective action. Security baselines, vulnerability remediation, access reviews and Azure Policy keep the platform compliance-ready. HLDs, LLDs, SOPs, runbooks and architecture diagrams document how everything works, and engineers look to you for mentoring. Banking or regulated-industry experience and a background leading platform modernisation are preferred.
Required skills
Key responsibilities
- Design, deploy and manage Azure infrastructure and AKS clusters
- Implement Disaster Recovery, backup and business continuity solutions
- Automate infrastructure and deployments with Terraform, Helm and Azure DevOps
- Manage Kubernetes networking, ingress, storage and security
- Deploy and maintain Prometheus, Grafana and Loki observability platforms
- Secure TLS certificates, secrets and the wider platform
- Troubleshoot critical production incidents and drive root cause analysis
- Plan and execute platform migrations and infrastructure upgrades
- Document architecture through HLDs, LLDs, SOPs, runbooks and DR procedures
- Define platform engineering standards, policies and best practices across Azure and Kubernetes
- Establish governance for RBAC, tagging, namespaces, resource limits, secrets and storage
- Set Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD rules covering Terraform modules, state, approval gates and promotion
- Participate in architecture and technical design reviews
- Drive security and compliance readiness through baselines, vulnerability remediation and policy enforcement
- Track platform availability, SLIs/SLOs, capacity and operational health
- Optimise performance and cloud costs across platform infrastructure
- Own DR testing, RTO/RPO validation and recovery evidence
- Evaluate new technologies through POCs before production adoption
- Mentor engineers on Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD and platform operations
Experience & skills
- Bring strong Microsoft Azure engineering experience
- Show hands-on Kubernetes experience with AKS or OpenShift
- Use Terraform, Helm and Docker to build reusable infrastructure patterns
- Apply Azure DevOps and CI/CD governance including release controls and environment promotion
- Know Azure networking including VNets, NSGs, Private Endpoints and Firewall
- Script confidently in Linux and Bash
- Demonstrate Disaster Recovery, backup, restore and RTO/RPO planning experience
- Work with databases such as PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL or Azure SQL
- Enforce cloud and Kubernetes security, RBAC and policy controls
- Offer banking or regulated industry experience (preferred)
- Lead technical design reviews and platform modernisation initiatives (preferred)