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**Lead DevOps Engineer**
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**Dubai**
My client is looking for a
**Lead DevOps Engineer**
to define and drive platform engineering practices that enable
**secure, scalable, and automated environments**
across data, AI, and application workloads.
This is a
**hands\-on leadership role**
, responsible for setting standards across
**CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes/OpenShift, observability, and security**
, while ensuring engineering teams can deliver efficiently within a governed and resilient platform.
You will act as a key bridge between
**Infrastructure, Security, DataOps, and Platform Engineering teams**
, helping to establish automation, reliability, and compliance as core principles across the organisation.
**Key Responsibilities:**
**Platform Engineering \& Architecture**
* Define and enforce DevOps standards across
**CI/CD, IaC, and container orchestration**
* Design, build, and operate
**Kubernetes/OpenShift clusters**
in hybrid and on\-prem environments
* Own cluster lifecycle management, including
**upgrades, scaling, networking, storage integration, and resilience**
* Champion DevOps best practices across a
**hybrid architecture (Azure \+ on\-prem)**
**Automation \& CI/CD**
* Standardise and optimise
**CI/CD frameworks**
(Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions)
* Drive adoption of
**Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible)**
across all environments
* Enable automated, consistent, and scalable deployments across platforms
**Observability \& Reliability**
* Establish
**observability frameworks**
(metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, alerting)
* Define
**SLOs/SLAs**
and ensure platform reliability and performance
* Oversee incident management, runbooks, and automated remediation strategies
**Security \& Governance**
* Embed
**security\-first practices**
including RBAC, secrets management, encryption, and vulnerability scanning
* Ensure compliance with
**PHI/PII regulations**
through secure platform design
* Support auditability and traceability across all deployments
* Contribute to
**platform governance and design authority forums**
**Leadership \& Collaboration**
* Mentor and develop DevOps engineers, raising platform maturity and best practices
* Collaborate with
**DataOps, AI/ML, and Engineering teams**
to support scalable delivery
* Partner with Infrastructure and Security teams to implement shared services and guardrails
**Required Experience \& Skills**
* 10\+ years’ experience in
**DevOps / Platform Engineering**
, with
**5\+ years in a leadership role**
* Strong hands\-on expertise in
**Kubernetes and OpenShift (cluster operations and lifecycle management)**
* Deep experience with
**CI/CD tools (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions)**
* Advanced knowledge of
**Terraform and Ansible (Infrastructure as Code)**
* Strong Linux systems experience in
**hybrid and on\-prem environments**
* Experience implementing
**observability tools**
(e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry)
* Solid understanding of
**security frameworks (RBAC, secrets management, compliance)**
* Proven track record delivering
**enterprise\-scale, cloud\-native platforms**
**Nice to Have**
* Experience working with
**data and AI platforms**
(e.g. Databricks, Kafka, Airflow, MLflow)
* Exposure to
**hybrid infrastructure**
(Azure \+ on\-prem storage such as MinIO or VAST)
* Experience contributing to
**architecture governance or design councils**
Please apply to be contacted with further information.
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