DevOps Engineer – 12‑Month Contract (Abu Dhabi)

About the role

We are a data analytics company based in Abu Dhabi seeking a DevOps Engineer for a 12‑month fixed‑term contract. The role is onsite and focuses on building and operating scalable infrastructure that supports AI model deployment and end‑to‑end lifecycle management.

Key responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain scalable cloud and on‑premises infrastructure for AI workloads.
• Automate provisioning, configuration and management using Terraform, Ansible and CloudFormation.
• Optimize infrastructure for performance, scalability and cost efficiency.
• Manage queuing systems and real‑time data streaming architectures to ensure reliable processing.
• Monitor, maintain and troubleshoot production environments to guarantee high availability.
• Implement logging, monitoring and alerting with Prometheus, Grafana and the ELK Stack.
• Establish comprehensive health monitoring for infrastructure, system metrics and machine‑learning model performance.
• Conduct root‑cause analysis and post‑incident reviews to continuously improve reliability.

Required profile

• 5–8 years of relevant DevOps experience.
• Proficiency in at least one scripting language (Python, Bash or Go).
• Hands‑on experience with major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure or Google Cloud).
• Strong background in containerization and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD or CircleCI).
• Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Datadog, New Relic, PagerDuty).
• Knowledge of real‑time streaming architectures for AI and data applications.

Required skills

• Terraform
• Ansible
• CloudFormation
• AWS
• Azure
• Google Cloud
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Azure DevOps
• Jenkins
• GitLab CI/CD
• CircleCI
• Prometheus
• Grafana
• ELK Stack
• Datadog
• New Relic
• PagerDuty
• Python
• Bash
• Go