Senior Azure DevOps Engineer — DevSecOps
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Safe City Group is hiring a Lead DevSecOps / Azure Platform Engineer to build secure, automated delivery foundations for critical UAE traffic and public-sector systems. This role is not basic deployment support.
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- Safe City Group is hiring a Lead DevSecOps / Azure Platform Engineer to build secure, automated delivery foundations for critical UAE traffic and public-sector systems.
- This role is not basic deployment support.
- The immediate mission is to move from manual releases and weak secrets handling to controlled CI/CD, secure environment promotion, automated scanning, Azure Key Vault integration, infrastructure-as-code, release traceability, and production observability.
- Immediate priorities
- Build baseline Azure DevOps pipelines for .NET / ASP.NET Core applications.
- Add build, test, SAST, SCA, secret scanning, artifact versioning, and deployment gates.
- Remove plaintext secrets from config/code and migrate to Azure Key Vault or equivalent.
- Establish environment promotion across Dev / Test / Staging / Production.
- Create rollback-ready deployment procedures.
- Implement secure variable groups, service connections, managed identities, and least-privilege access.
- Support Azure App Services / Azure SQL / Storage / APIM / WAF / Application Insights / Azure Monitor.
- Partner with security/governance to align releases with OWASP, ISO 27001, and internal change controls.
- Train developers on practical pipeline usage without turning process into bureaucracy.
- Must-have experience
- 7+ years in DevOps, platform engineering, cloud engineering, or release engineering.
- Strong **Azure DevOps Pipelines** experience.
- Strong Azure production experience: App Services, Azure SQL, Storage, Key Vault, Entra ID, Application Insights, Azure Monitor.
- Hands-on CI/CD for **.NET / C# / ASP.NET Core** systems.
- Infrastructure as Code: **Bicep or Terraform**.
- Secrets management and credential rotation.
- SAST/SCA/secret scanning integration.
- Branching, PR gates, artifact management, deployment approvals, rollback.
- Docker/containerization experience.
- Strong English, B2+ minimum.
- Strong preference
- Experience in regulated, government, financial, transport, telecom, or security-sensitive systems.
- Experience modernizing manual deployment environments.
- Experience with APIM, WAF, private endpoints, NSGs, managed identity, RBAC.
- Familiarity with SonarQube, Snyk, GitHub Advanced Security, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, OWASP ZAP, Trivy, Checkov, Dependabot, or equivalent tools.
- Azure certifications: AZ-400, AZ-104, AZ-305, AZ-500.
- Pay: From AED10,000.00 per month
- Ability to commute/relocate:
- Abu Dhabi: Reliably commute or willing to relocate with an employer-provided relocation package (Required)
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