Senior Platform Engineer - AWS Focus

About the role

A Senior Platform Engineer is sought in Abu Dhabi to design, engineer and evolve AWS cloud and hybrid-cloud ecosystems as a reusable enterprise portfolio of products. The role builds secure, cloud-native capabilities so AI teams can build, evaluate and run applications and agents on AWS without recreating infrastructure, integration or operational controls, with emphasis on AI service operationalization, security and FinOps-driven cost optimization.

Key responsibilities

• Design reusable AWS AI platform services, products, contracts and tenancy patterns
• Architect and deploy production-ready AWS environments using a landing-zone approach
• Deploy, scale and manage AWS AI/ML services such as Amazon Bedrock, SageMaker, Rekognition, Textract and Lookout
• Standardize deployments with Terraform, building versioned modules, platform APIs, SDKs, automated validation and release management
• Engineer runtime patterns with EKS, Lambda, containers, EventBridge, queues, streams and workflow services
• Implement least-privilege IAM, workload identity, secrets management, encryption and private VPC connectivity, and automate security controls in delivery pipelines
• Design secure service-to-service and cross-account access patterns, and manage API lifecycles with AWS API Gateway and Kong
• Design automated GitHub Workflows for CI/CD and provide self-service onboarding, templates, documentation and paved-road patterns
• Analyze cloud SKUs and set up monitoring and alerting to prevent budget overruns

Required profile

• 5+ years of experience in the AWS ecosystem
• Direct experience with AWS Bedrock and SageMaker
• Strong cloud architecture and solution architecture capabilities

Required skills

• Expert-level Terraform, including GitHub Actions
• Amazon Bedrock, SageMaker, EKS, Lambda, EventBridge, API Gateway, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch
• Expert knowledge of VPC design, subnetting, Route 53 and Direct Connect
• Hands-on experience with AWS API Gateway or Kong