Senior DevOps Engineer

Location: Onsite, Business Bay, DubaiEmployment Type: Full-timeExperience: 5+ yearsAbout the RoleWe are looking for a highly capable, hands-on Senior DevOps Engineer to take ownership of our infrastructure, deployment environments, servers, security, monitoring, backups, and operational reliability.This is not a role for someone who only manages CI/CD pipelines or provisions cloud resources.We are looking for a true DevOps engineer who understands infrastructure from the ground up and can take responsibility for the full lifecycle of our technical environments — from architecture and server provisioning to security, deployments, monitoring, disaster recovery, and ongoing maintenance.You will work across development, testing, staging, and production environments and will be responsible for ensuring that our systems are secure, reliable, scalable, recoverable, and operationally efficient.What You Will DoInfrastructure & Server ManagementDesign, provision, configure, and maintain servers and infrastructure.Manage both cloud and dedicated / physical server environments.Evaluate infrastructure requirements and recommend appropriate server and hosting solutions.Provision new servers and environments when required.Configure operating systems, networking, storage, firewalls, access controls, and services.Maintain production infrastructure and ensure high availability and reliability.Manage infrastructure used for large volumes of data and media.Plan infrastructure capacity as systems and workloads grow.Maintain accurate infrastructure documentation and configuration standards.EnvironmentsOwn and maintain multiple environments, including:DevelopmentTesting / QAStagingProductionEnsure environments are properly isolated, secure, reproducible, and consistent.You will establish reliable processes for moving applications between environments and ensure developers have the infrastructure they need without compromising production security.CI/CD & DeploymentDesign and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines.Automate application builds, testing, deployment, and rollback processes.Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration wherever possible.Implement safe deployment strategies.Reduce manual operational work through automation.Work closely with engineering teams to improve deployment workflows.Ensure deployments are observable and recoverable.SecuritySecurity is a major part of this role.You will be responsible for:Server hardening.SSH and secure remote access.Identity and access management.Role-based access control.Secrets and credential management.Firewall and network security.Secure developer access to infrastructure.Production access controls.Monitoring for suspicious activity.Security patching and vulnerability management.Secure data transfer and storage.Infrastructure security best practices.You should understand the principle of least-privilege access and know how to give people the access they need without exposing the entire infrastructure.Backups & Disaster RecoveryYou will own our backup and recovery strategy.This includes:Designing automated backup systems.Backing up databases, application data, files, and critical infrastructure.Maintaining appropriate backup retention policies.Ensuring backups are stored securely and separately from production.Monitoring backup jobs and failures.Regularly testing that backups can actually be restored.Developing disaster recovery procedures.Defining recovery objectives and improving our ability to recover from infrastructure failures.A backup that has never been tested is not a reliable backup.Monitoring & ReliabilityImplement infrastructure and application monitoring.Monitor CPU, memory, storage, networking, application health, and system performance.Set up meaningful alerts and notifications.Identify infrastructure problems before they affect users.Investigate production incidents and perform root-cause analysis.Maintain logs and centralized observability.Establish appropriate uptime and reliability standards.Continuously improve system resilience.Infrastructure AutomationWe strongly believe infrastructure should be automated wherever practical.You should have strong experience with:Infrastructure as CodeConfiguration managementAutomated server provisioningAutomated deploymentsAutomated backupsAutomated monitoringEnvironment provisioningExperience with tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, or equivalent technologies is highly desirable.Cloud & NetworkingStrong understanding of cloud infrastructure and networking is expected.Experience with platforms such as:AWSAzureGoogle CloudDigitalOceanCloudflareis valuable.You should understand:VPCs / private networksSubnetsDNSLoad balancingFirewallsReverse proxiesSSL/TLSVPNsSSHCDNObject storageBlock storageNetwork securityServer-to-server communicationWhat We Are Looking ForWe are looking for someone who is smart, technically strong, practical, and highly responsible.You should be the person who can receive a requirement such as:"We need a new production server in another region, secure access for the team, automated backups, monitoring, and a reliable deployment process."…and know how to take that requirement from architecture → provisioning → security → deployment → monitoring → backup → maintenance.You should:Think proactively rather than waiting for infrastructure problems to occur.Be comfortable working independently.Have strong troubleshooting and problem-solving abilities.Understand systems deeply rather than simply following documentation.Be comfortable working directly with Linux servers.Have excellent security awareness.Automate repetitive work.Document infrastructure properly.Be comfortable dealing with incidents under pressure.Understand that production infrastructure requires discipline and accountability.Be able to explain technical infrastructure decisions clearly to engineers and management.Required Experience5+ years of professional DevOps / Infrastructure / SRE experience.Strong Linux administration experience.Strong experience managing production servers.Strong experience with cloud infrastructure.Strong CI/CD experience.Experience with Infrastructure as Code.Experience with Docker and containerized applications.Strong networking fundamentals.Strong security and access-management knowledge.Experience designing and maintaining backup and disaster-recovery systems.Experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting.Strong scripting / automation skills.Experience troubleshooting production infrastructure.Strong Git experience.Highly DesirableAWS infrastructure experience.Terraform.Ansible.Kubernetes.Docker.GitHub Actions / GitLab CI / Jenkins or equivalent.Nginx.PostgreSQL / MySQL infrastructure.Redis.Cloudflare.Object storage such as S3.CDN architecture.Infrastructure security.Performance and capacity planning.High-volume data or media infrastructure.Multi-region infrastructure.Dedicated server management.Disaster recovery planning.What Success Looks LikeYou will be successful when:Infrastructure is stable, secure, and well documented.Developers can reliably work in development and test environments.Deployments are automated and predictable.Production access is controlled and auditable.Servers are properly monitored and maintained.Backups run automatically and are regularly tested.Infrastructure failures can be detected and recovered from quickly.New servers and environments can be provisioned efficiently.Security vulnerabilities are addressed proactively.Infrastructure scales as the business grows.The engineering team does not need to worry about whether the infrastructure is going to work.The Person We WantWe are not looking for someone who simply knows how to use AWS.We are looking for an engineer who understands systems.Someone who can look at an infrastructure problem, understand the underlying architecture, identify the risks, design the right solution, implement it, automate it, secure it, monitor it, and maintain it.If you are a hands-on DevOps engineer who enjoys building reliable infrastructure and taking complete ownership of it, we'd like to hear from you.