Senior DevOps Engineer – Advanced R&D & Critical Infrastructure

Posted 11 December 2025
Salary Competitive salary and package
LocationAbu Dhabi

Job description

​An elite senior DevOps opportunity within a confidential engineering and R&D organisation working across defence-grade telecom, space systems and complex distributed platforms. This team builds ultra-reliable infrastructure at scale and offers long-term career stability.

Responsibilities

High-Performance Infrastructure Design

  • Architect, deploy and maintain large-scale on-prem and hybrid cloud environments.

  • Lead automation initiatives, pipeline optimisation and infrastructure scalability.

Platform Reliability & Operations

  • Ensure uptime and resilience of critical systems through proactive monitoring.

  • Drive root-cause analysis and long-term system improvements.

Security & Governance

  • Implement defence-grade hardening and compliance controls.

  • Partner with cybersecurity teams on secure design, secrets management and zero-trust.

Technical Leadership

  • Lead engineering sessions, design reviews and technical mentorship.

  • Support cross-functional delivery with software, embedded and R&D teams.

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field (mandatory).

  • 7+ years DevOps/SRE experience with strong expertise in CI/CD, Linux and containerisation.

  • Solid hands-on knowledge of Kubernetes, IaC, monitoring stacks, and secure networking.

Bonus Qualifications

  • Experience in high-security, government or defence environments.

  • Strong Python/Go scripting skills.

  • Experience with hybrid cloud or large-scale distributed systems.

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