Senior DevOps Engineer

We invite a Senior DevOps Engineer to join an ambitious project in Abu-Dhabi focused on transforming a high-load Autonomics platform into a multi-region active/active architecture. You will collaborate closely with the core development team to design and implement highly available, disaster-resilient infrastructure using open-source technologies across multiple clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP).

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in DevOps or Infrastructure Engineering
• Proven delivery of active/active multi-region architectures under tight deadlinesExpert in Kubernetes multi-cluster/multi-region deployment and configuration
• Deep knowledge of distributed systems, CAP theorem, and conflict resolution
• Experience ensuring SLAs of 99.9%+ with disaster recovery and chaos testing
• Hands-on with Percona MySQL multi-master replication
• Expertise with Apache Cassandra, OpenSearch, Redis in production-scale distributed setups
• Strong background in cross-region network design, load balancing, DNS failover
• Proficient in Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, Helm)
• Experience in performance/load testing, chaos engineering, and observability setup
• Skilled in developing runbooks and executing knowledge transfer
• Fluent English and excellent communication skills

Responsibilities

• Deliver full active/active multi-region deployment within 12 weeks

• Transform a single-region platform into a resilient cross-region system

• Implement user routing, disaster failover, and latency optimization

• Design and maintain high-availability database clusters with multi-region replication

• Collaborate with developers and architects to validate infrastructure design

• Ensure observability, monitoring, and alerting for all regions

• Conduct chaos testing and performance validation

• Update CI/CD pipelines for active/active deployments

• Prepare comprehensive documentation and train core team for handover

Preferred Qualifications

• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or similar certification

• Background in financial services or other mission-critical industries

• Familiarity with service mesh solutions like Istio or Linkerd

• Experience with automated testing and CI pipelines

• Practical knowledge of multi-cloud strategies (AWS, Azure, GCP)