DevOps Engineer (UAEN)

About the role

A client of Black Pearl Consult is looking for a DevOps Engineer to join its growing technology team in Abu Dhabi. The role is central to building, deploying and maintaining scalable, secure and high-performing infrastructure, working closely with development and QA teams to deliver reliable production environments.

Key responsibilities

• Design, implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines
• Build and manage scalable infrastructure, including AI-driven systems
• Automate infrastructure provisioning with tools such as Terraform, Ansible or CloudFormation
• Optimise cloud and on-premise environments for performance, scalability and cost
• Manage real-time data streaming and queuing systems
• Monitor system performance, troubleshoot production issues and run root cause analysis
• Implement logging, monitoring and alerting (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack)
• Take part in an on-call rotation and ensure compliance with standards such as SOC2 and ISO27001
• Manage secrets and credentials securely (e.g. Vault)

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent experience
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure or Google Cloud)
• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals (DNS, load balancing, firewalls)
• Exposure to real-time data processing architectures

Required skills

• Scripting in Python, Bash or Go
• Containerisation and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
• CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Azure DevOps or CircleCI
• Monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Datadog or Grafana
• Preferred: Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi), service meshes (Istio, Linkerd), SQL/NoSQL databases, and experience in high-traffic production environments