Senior Product Operations Engineer / DevOps

Role: Senior Product Operations Engineer / DevOps – R&D group

Abu Dhabi based role – relocation required 😊

€100-€110K Euro’s + 25% bonus – Tax free + amazing relocation + amazing education allowance for familys + free flights & Healthcare for all.

We’re a research-driven team working helping our cutting edge technology client that is building new tech that designed to stay relevant as today’s security assumptions start to age out. The work lives close to protocols, trust boundaries, and long-lived systems — the kind that are painful to change once they’re deployed.

Your role is to make early-stage, high-consequence engineering practical to run in the real world. You’ll help define how experimental capabilities are packaged, introduced, upgraded, observed, and recovered across complex and security-conscious environments.

This is a senior role for someone who enjoys ambiguity, understands that “done” includes operability, and prefers building systems that won’t need apologising for in five years.

What you’ll focus on

• Designing how research-grade technology becomes something stable, repeatable, and supportable.

• Owning the mechanics of change for systems where correctness matters more than speed.

• Building automation that enforces safety, consistency, and reversibility by default.

• Running distributed platforms and the trust, networking, and lifecycle layers beneath them.

• Making systems explain themselves through health signals, behaviour, and failure modes.

• Improving reliability practices, recovery paths, and institutional memory when things break.

• Acting as a technical counterpart to engineers and researchers, shaping designs with real-world constraints in mind.

What we expect from you

• Proven experience owning production platforms end-to-end.

• Strong automation instincts and comfort expressing infrastructure and workflows as code.

• Deep hands-on experience with containerised systems and their operational edges.

• Solid grounding in Linux, networking, and secure communication patterns.

• The ability to debug complex behaviour without relying on perfect documentation.

• A security-first mindset that assumes today’s “safe enough” may not be tomorrow’s.

• Clear written thinking — especially when defining how systems should be operated long after you’ve moved on.

Signals that usually correlate well

• Experience with software that runs inside customer environments rather than behind an API.

• Familiarity with systems that observe, classify, or reason about other systems.

• Comfort working near cryptographic primitives, trust models, certificates, or protocol behaviour.

• Exposure to long-lived infrastructure where algorithm choice and configuration have real shelf-life implications.

• Interest in future-facing security topics, especially where assumptions around computation, trust, or longevity are shifting.

• Preference for declarative, policy-driven, or opinionated operational models.

Why this is different

This role isn’t about chasing the latest tooling or scaling a web app. It’s about building platforms that are designed to survive changes in threat models, computation, and time itself.

If that sentence made sense without explanation — you’re probably the person we’re looking for.

Hiring Process

2 x Technical Interviews

1 x CTO / Tech Leadership Chat

Potential an HR/Final chat

Why we understand the challenge

We have helped over 300+ people find new exciting projects in the UAE / Abu Dhabi over the past 10 years, and with these exciting projects, high quality of life, great education and a safe place to enjoy working and social fun.