{"id":1144464,"url":"https://alion.io/job/weekday-senior-platform-engineer-cloud-kubernetes","title":"Senior Platform Engineer - Cloud & Kubernetes","company":{"id":7097,"name":"Weekday","domain":"weekday.works","url":"https://alion.io/company/weekday","size_band":"51-200","is_staffing_agency":true,"is_intermediary":false,"ats_vendor":"Workable","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":81,"open_postings":88,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.977,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":5,"computed_at":"2026-09-23T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"DevOps","role_family":"DevOps","seniority":"senior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"explicit","locations":["Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates"],"countries":["AE"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":76000,"max_usd":190000,"period":"year","method":"global_role_cell_scaled_by_country","sample_n":1686},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Azure","optional":false},{"name":"Azure AKS","optional":false},{"name":"Azure DevOps","optional":false},{"name":"Azure SQL Database","optional":false},{"name":"Bash","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"Docker","optional":false},{"name":"FinOps","optional":false},{"name":"Git","optional":false},{"name":"GitOps","optional":false},{"name":"Grafana","optional":false},{"name":"Helm","optional":false},{"name":"Incident Management","optional":false},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":false},{"name":"Linux","optional":false},{"name":"Loki","optional":false},{"name":"MySQL","optional":false},{"name":"Platform Engineering","optional":false},{"name":"PostgreSQL","optional":false},{"name":"Prometheus","optional":false},{"name":"Terraform","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-23T14:12:16Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-23","last_verified_at":"2026-09-23T19:23:51Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"'\n: - ( - )\nExperience: 5+ yrs\nLocation: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates\nJob Type: Full-time\nWe are looking for an experienced Senior Platform Engineer to design, implement, secure, and operate scalable cloud-native platforms using Microsoft Azure and Kubernetes. The role focuses on building highly available, resilient, secure, and well-governed production environments while driving automation, observability, infrastructure-as-code, and platform engineering best practices.\nThe ideal candidate will have strong hands-on expertise across Azure, AKS, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, cloud governance, security, observability, and Disaster Recovery, along with the ability to provide technical leadership across complex platform environments.\nRequirements\nKey Responsibilities\nDesign, deploy, and manage Microsoft Azure infrastructure and AKS/Kubernetes platforms.\nImplement and maintain Disaster Recovery, backup, restore, and business continuity solutions.\nBuild infrastructure automation using Terraform, Helm, Azure DevOps, and CI/CD pipelines.\nManage Kubernetes networking, ingress, storage, namespaces, resource limits, security, and platform configurations.\nImplement observability solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and related monitoring technologies.\nManage TLS certificates, secrets, access controls, RBAC, and platform security mechanisms.\nEstablish cloud and Kubernetes governance covering resource organisation, naming, tagging, security policies, and operational standards.\nDefine Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD governance, including reusable Terraform modules, state management, code reviews, approval gates, environment promotion, and artifact management.\nParticipate in architecture and technical design reviews for platforms, applications, integrations, and infrastructure changes.\nDrive security and compliance readiness through vulnerability remediation, access reviews, security baselines, audit controls, and policy enforcement.\nDefine and monitor platform availability, SLIs, SLOs, capacity, performance, and operational health.\nLead incident and problem management, including root-cause analysis, corrective actions, and prevention of recurring issues.\nPerform capacity planning, performance optimisation, and cloud cost optimisation / FinOps activities.\nOwn DR testing, RTO/RPO validation, backup and recovery standards, and periodic recovery exercises.\nPlan and execute platform migrations, infrastructure upgrades, and cloud transformation initiatives.\nEvaluate emerging platform technologies, conduct POCs, and establish approved patterns for production adoption.\nMaintain technical documentation including HLDs, LLDs, architecture diagrams, SOPs, runbooks, troubleshooting guides, and DR procedures.\nProvide technical leadership, mentoring, and knowledge sharing across platform engineering teams.\nWhat Makes You a Great Fit\n5+ years of experience in platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, or related roles.\nStrong hands-on expertise in Microsoft Azure and Kubernetes, particularly AKS.\nStrong experience with Docker, Helm, Terraform, and Azure DevOps / CI/CD.\nGood understanding of Azure networking, including VNets, NSGs, Private Endpoints, and Azure Firewall.\nExperience implementing observability using Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, or similar platforms.\nStrong knowledge of Linux, Bash scripting, Git, and GitOps practices.\nProven experience with Disaster Recovery, backup/restore, RTO/RPO planning, and recovery testing.\nStrong understanding of Kubernetes security, governance, RBAC, policy enforcement, and Azure Policy.\nExperience establishing reusable Infrastructure-as-Code patterns and platform engineering standards.\nStrong understanding of CI/CD governance, release controls, environment promotion, and source-control standards.\nExperience working with databases such as PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL, or Azure SQL.\nStrong knowledge of incident management, problem management, RCA, capacity planning, performance optimisation, and cloud cost management.\nExperience working in security-, compliance-, audit-, or governance-controlled environments.\nAbility to create and maintain HLDs, LLDs, architecture diagrams, operational runbooks, SOPs, and technical 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