DevOps Engineer (Azure)

Location: Hybrid in Abu Dhabi or Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Company

hirify.global is an AI and data consultancy delivering tailored intelligent enterprise systems, with particular expertise in financial services and banking.

What you will do

• Govern Azure infrastructure for the Agentic Workflow Automation platform using Terraform or Bicep, including AKS, ADLS Gen2, API Management, private endpoints, and Key Vault.
• Design and optimize Azure DevOps pipelines covering container builds, registry publishing, image signing, infrastructure deployment, and validation gates.
• Manage multi-namespace AKS clusters, network policies, workload identities, admission controls, and KEDA autoscaling.
• Operate security and access controls, including managed identities, TLS certificate automation, secret rotation, Azure Policy, and firewall configurations.
• Create KQL queries and monitoring alerts for SLA breaches, runtime failures, and token utilization.
• Implement and validate disaster-recovery failover paths for storage accounts and model-serving endpoints.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering, including 2 years focused on Azure.
• Strong experience building production cloud architectures with Terraform or Bicep.
• Advanced Kubernetes and AKS experience, including Helm or Kustomize, network policies, RBAC, admission controls, and namespace segmentation.
• Experience implementing KEDA or equivalent event-driven autoscaling and managing multi-stage Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions pipelines.
• Understanding of hub-and-spoke VNets, private links, network security groups, cloud firewalls, and advanced KQL.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or a related technical field.

Nice to have

• Experience with Kubernetes Workload Identity, Azure Key Vault, Azure AI Foundry, and API Management.
• Familiarity with Azure Event Hubs or Kafka consumer groups and immutable ADLS Gen2 storage.
• Azure Administrator Associate, Azure DevOps Engineer Expert, or Certified Kubernetes Administrator certification.

Culture & Benefits

• Comprehensive personal health insurance.
• Visa sponsorship is available for the successful candidate.
• Professional development, certification support, and role-related subscription reimbursement.
• Opportunity to work on AI projects with career advancement opportunities.
• Monthly employee incentive program and an inclusive, accessibility-focused application process.