Azure Cloud Engineer (AI Platforms)

About the role

The Azure Cloud Engineer will design, build and operate a secure UAE‑hosted cloud environment for AI platforms, ensuring continuous availability and compliance with local standards.

Key responsibilities

• Design and implement the cloud landing zone in UAE regions, covering networking, private endpoints, identity, key management and logging.
• Automate infrastructure as code using Bicep or Terraform and set up CI/CD pipelines for development, test and production.
• Apply ISO 27001 and UAE information‑security controls, produce audit evidence and manage monitoring, backup, disaster recovery and incident response.
• Hand over the platform with runbooks and train the client’s IT team.

Required profile

• Significant production experience on Microsoft Azure.
• Proficiency with infrastructure‑as‑code (Bicep or Terraform) and CI/CD tools (Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions).
• Experience hosting AI services such as Azure OpenAI and AI Search securely.
• Currently residing in the UAE and able to start within five days.

Required skills

• Microsoft Azure services (Entra ID/Azure AD, RBAC, Private Networking, Key Vault, Azure Monitor, Defender for Cloud).
• Infrastructure as code: Bicep, Terraform.
• CI/CD pipelines: Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions.
• Container platforms: AKS, Azure Container Apps.