DevOps Engineer

Contract duration: 6 months (with a potential extension) Engagement Type: Full-time Start date: July 2026 Location: Abu Dhabi (on-site) Role Overview We are seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to make software delivery fast, repeatable, and safe.

You ll build and operate CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, container platforms, and observability cutting lead time and toil while improving reliability and security.

The discipline has shifted toward platform engineering: building internal developer platforms and golden paths so product teams can self-serve, with GitOps, policy-as-code, and supply-chain security built in.

DevSecOps and FinOps are core parts of the job here, not afterthoughts.

Key Responsibilities Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines with automated testing, security scanning, and progressive delivery.

Author infrastructure as code with Terraform/OpenTofu using reusable modules and clean environment promotion.

Build and operate Kubernetes platforms Helm/Kustomize packaging, autoscaling, and ingress.

Implement GitOps with Argo CD or Flux so the desired state of infrastructure and apps lives in Git.

Stand up observability: metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, SLOs, and alerting.

Embed DevSecOps: SAST/DAST/SCA scanning, secrets management, image hardening, and software supply-chain security.

Build internal developer platforms and golden paths that enable self-service for product teams.

Manage cloud infrastructure with cost awareness, automate operational tasks, and improve DORA metrics; participate in on-call and run blameless post-mortems.

Tools & Technologies You ll Work With: Scripting: Bash, Python, Go; YAML, HCL.

CI/CD: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps.

IaC & config: Terraform/OpenTofu, Pulumi, Ansible, Crossplane.

Containers & GitOps: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Kustomize, Argo CD, Flux, Argo Rollouts.

Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Loki, ELK/OpenSearch, Datadog.

DevSecOps: Trivy, Snyk, SonarQube, Checkov, OPA/Kyverno; Sigstore, SLSA, SBOMs.

Secrets & platform: HashiCorp Vault, External Secrets, OIDC workload identity; Backstage; AWS, Azure, GCP.