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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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