Senior DevOps Engineer

Title: Senior DevOps Engineer | Sovereign AI

Location: Abu Dhabi, UAE

About the role:

We are hiring a Senior DevOps Engineer for one of the leading players in Sovereign AI, a UAE-based company with frontier-model access and agentic AI products live across critical sectors at unprecedented scale.

You'll own the infrastructure and deployment pipelines that keep AI systems running in production, across both cloud and on-premise environments where reliability and security are non-negotiable.

What you'll own:

• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines, and build scalable infrastructure for AI model deployment and lifecycle management
• Automate provisioning with Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation, optimising both cloud and on-premise resources for scale and cost
• Manage queuing systems and real-time streaming architectures for AI and data workloads
• Own production reliability: monitoring, logging, alerting, root cause analysis, and post-mortems, with monitoring across both system metrics and ML model performance
• Ensure infrastructure meets security and compliance standards (SOC2, ISO27001), managing secrets with Vault or AWS Secrets Manager
• Participate in a rotating on-call schedule for production support

What we're looking for:

• 5+ years in DevOps, platform, or infrastructure engineering
• Strong Kubernetes and Docker, with hands-on cloud experience (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Proficiency in Python, Bash, or Go, and CI/CD tooling (Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps)
• Observability depth with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or Datadog, plus solid networking fundamentals
• Experience in high-traffic production environments

Nice to have:

• Infrastructure as Code with Terraform or Pulumi, service mesh (Istio, Linkerd), vector and SQL/NoSQL database administration

The setup:

• Based in Abu Dhabi, contract-based
• Onboarding ASAP
• World-class environment

Interested? Apply here or message me directly with your CV.