DevOps Engineer - Azure & Kubernetes

About the role

The Technology Innovation Institute (TII), a publicly funded research institute in Abu Dhabi, UAE, is hiring a full-time DevOps Engineer. The engineer designs, automates and operates secure cloud and platform capabilities for application and data workloads, covering Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, GitOps, artifact management, observability and platform reliability across Microsoft Azure and Kubernetes. The role works with software, data, security and infrastructure teams to standardise delivery workflows, reduce operational toil and strengthen supply-chain security.

Key responsibilities

• Design, provision and operate secure Azure and Kubernetes platforms, and develop reusable Terraform modules to reduce configuration drift.
• Automate configuration, upgrades, health checks, backups, recovery and recurring tasks, applying cloud governance, least-privilege access and secrets management.
• Help engineers build CI/CD workflows with GitLab CI and/or Jenkins, and implement GitOps with Argo CD and Helm.
• Administer GitLab and JFrog Artifactory, and embed automated testing, SBOM generation, image and dependency scanning and signing.
• Set up monitoring and alerting with Prometheus and maintain logging and diagnostics with the Elastic Stack.
• Take part in incident response, root-cause analysis and post-incident improvements; on-call duties are defined separately.
• Identify reliability, security, performance, cost and delivery improvements, maintain documentation and runbooks, and collaborate with software, data, security, architecture and infrastructure teams.