{"id":1483480,"url":"https://alion.io/job/salt-senior-devops-site-reliability-engineer","title":"Senior DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer","company":{"id":1935342,"name":"Salt","domain":"welovesalt.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/welovesalt","size_band":"201-500","is_staffing_agency":true,"employer_type":"agency","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":null,"truth_index":{"grade":"C","score":64,"open_postings":1440,"ghost_share":0.608,"stale_share":0,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":null,"computed_at":"2026-10-01T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"DevOps","role_family":"DevOps","seniority":"senior","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates"],"countries":["AE"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":52000,"max_usd":135000,"period":"year","method":"global_role_cell_scaled_by_country","sample_n":2013},"experience_years_min":6,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"Azure","optional":false},{"name":"Azure AKS","optional":false},{"name":"Azure DevOps","optional":false},{"name":"Bash","optional":false},{"name":"Bicep","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"Configuration Management","optional":false},{"name":"Docker","optional":false},{"name":"GCP","optional":false},{"name":"GitHub Actions","optional":false},{"name":"GitLab CI","optional":false},{"name":"Go","optional":false},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":false},{"name":"Least Privilege","optional":false},{"name":"Linux","optional":false},{"name":"LLM","optional":false},{"name":"Platform Engineering","optional":false},{"name":"Pulumi","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"Terraform","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-14T00:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-15","last_verified_at":"2026-09-29T22:22:26Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":17,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":0,"flags":["company_stale"],"days_open":17},"description":"The RoleWe are seeking a hands-on Senior DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer to build and operate the delivery and runtime foundations for a portfolio of modern enterprise applications, workflow platforms and AI-enabled products.\nThis is not primarily an infrastructure-administration role. You will work directly with software engineers to create reliable, secure and automated paths from code to production.\nYou will own deployment automation, runtime reliability, observability, infrastructure-as-code and operational readiness across applications that integrate with critical enterprise systems.\nWhat You Will Own\nPlatform & Infrastructure\n* Build and maintain cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code.\n* Design secure, repeatable environments across development, test, staging and production.\n* Manage containerized workloads and Kubernetes-based deployments where appropriate.\n* Define standard application deployment patterns for backend, frontend and AI services.\n* Implement secure secrets and configuration management.\n* Support network, identity and connectivity requirements for enterprise integrations.\nCI/CD & Developer Productivity\n* Build automated CI/CD pipelines.\n* Standardize build, test, security scanning and deployment processes.\n* Automate environment provisioning and configuration.\n* Reduce manual deployment steps and production configuration drift.\n* Work closely with engineering teams to improve release frequency and reliability.\nReliability & Observability\n* Establish logging, metrics, tracing and alerting.\n* Define service-level indicators and operational thresholds.\n* Build dashboards for system health and application performance.\n* Implement incident-response and production-support practices.\n* Design for graceful degradation, retries, failover and recovery.\n* Lead root-cause analysis of production incidents.\nSecurity & Operational Controls\n* Implement least-privilege access and secure deployment patterns.\n* Support auditability of infrastructure and production changes.\n* Integrate security checks into delivery pipelines.\n* Work with security and infrastructure teams to meet enterprise control requirements.\nResilience\n* Support business continuity and disaster-recovery design.\n* Define backup, restore and recovery procedures.\n* Test operational recovery rather than relying solely on documented plans.\nRequired Experience:\n* 6+ years in DevOps, SRE, platform engineering or cloud infrastructure.\n* Strong production experience with Azure, AWS or GCP; Azure strongly preferred.\n* Docker and Kubernetes.\n* Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Bicep, Pulumi or equivalent.\n* CI/CD using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI or similar.\n* Strong Linux and networking fundamentals.\n* Observability tooling and distributed-system troubleshooting.\n* Secure secrets, identity and access-management patterns.\n* Production incident-management experience.\n* Scripting/programming capability in Python, Go, Bash or equivalent.\nStrong Advantage\n* Azure Kubernetes Service.\n* Azure Service Bus, API Management, Key Vault and related Azure services.\n* Enterprise integration platforms.\n* SAP-connected environments.\n* AI/LLM application deployment.\n* Regulated or government environments.\n* High-availability and disaster-recovery architecture.\nSalt is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.","description_format":"text","description_chars":3364,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":6,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-29T21:51:31Z"}],"liveness":{"score":37,"band":"fade","label":"Fading","p_open":1,"p_active":0.408,"p_room":0.9,"age_days":17,"expected_fill_days":47,"reasons":["conf:31","agency","stale_co","urgency","velocity","win:mid","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-01T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/salt-senior-devops-site-reliability-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/salt-senior-devops-site-reliability-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-01T10:36:29Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":1724,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":3276,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-02T00:00:00Z"}}}