Technology Architect

Lunate is a new Abu Dhabi-based, Partner-led, independent global alternative investment manager with more than 200 employees and $115 billion of assets under management.

Lunate invests across the entire private markets spectrum including buyouts, growth equity, early and late-stage venture capital, private credit, real assets, and public equities and public credit.

Lunate aims to be one of the world’s leading private markets solutions providers through SMAs and multi-asset class funds, seeking to generate best-in-class risk-adjusted returns for its clients.

Lunate is seeking a Senior Lead DevOps / SRE Engineer to take ownership of how architecture is delivered into production across our Azure estate.

This is a hands-on technical role for someone who can decompose complex solution designs and land them as secure, reliable, production-grade platforms.

The successful candidate will lead Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) platform engineering, own Infrastructure as Code delivery using Terraform and Ansible, engineer Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines, and establish the release management and Site Reliability Engineering practices that keep Lunate’s platforms fast, safe, and observable.

The role sits within the Technology Architecture function and works closely with cloud engineering, infrastructure engineering, security, and application teams.

Translate reference architectures and solution designs into implementable, production-ready platforms, covering security, networking, identity, and runtime considerations.

Own end-to-end delivery of complex platform changes through design decomposition, implementation planning, engineering execution, and operational handover.

Drive technical trade-offs across reliability, security, performance, and maintainability.

Design, implement, and operate AKS clusters including upgrades, scaling, node pool strategy, cluster hardening, workload isolation, and performance optimisation.

Troubleshoot complex issues spanning Kubernetes, networking, identity integration, and underlying infrastructure, with a bias toward root-cause resolution and automation.

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform and Ansible)

Build and maintain IaC frameworks using Terraform for provisioning and Ansible for configuration management.

Create reusable modules, roles, and playbooks; enforce coding standards; manage drift; and integrate IaC into CI/CD workflows for controlled promotion across environments.

Deliver end-to-end automation from infrastructure provisioning through post-provision configuration and hardening.

Design and implement multi-stage Azure DevOps pipelines, deployment strategies, approval gates, artifact management, and rollback patterns.

Standardise pipelines through reusable templates and documented patterns to improve quality, repeatability, and auditability.

Own the release management operating model, including release planning, change control alignment, release communications, promotion sequencing, verification, and rollback readiness.

Use reliability signals and operational readiness criteria to govern release confidence and reduce deployment risk.

Automation and Scripting

Develop automation and tooling in Python, Bash, and PowerShell to reduce operational toil and improve repeatability across build, deploy, monitoring, and incident response workflows.

Operate and troubleshoot both Linux and Windows Server environments supporting application and platform workloads, applying consistent configuration and hardening practices across both estates.

Define and operationalise SLIs, SLOs, and error budget policies to balance delivery velocity with service reliability.

Lead incident response, establish runbooks, and drive blameless postmortems with measurable actions to reduce recurrence.

Cloud and Orchestration

Microsoft Azure, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure networking and identity services.

Docker (image build, multi-stage builds, Dockerfile authoring), container registries (Azure Container Registry), image signing and vulnerability scanning, OCI-compliant runtimes, and Helm for Kubernetes application packaging.

Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management

Terraform (infrastructure provisioning and lifecycle management), Ansible (configuration management, roles, and playbooks).

Azure DevOps (multi-stage pipelines, pipeline templates, artifact management, approval gates, deployment strategies, rollback patterns).

Scripting and Automation

Python, Bash, PowerShell.

Linux (enterprise distributions) and Windows Server.

Monitoring and observability tooling spanning metrics, logs, and traces; alerting and alert tuning; incident response tooling and runbooks; SLI/SLO instrumentation and error budget reporting.