Senior Cloud Engineer (Azure/Kubernetes)

Senior Platform Engineer (Azure / Kubernetes)

UAE | On-site | $140,000–170,000 base + Discretionary Bonus

We’re hiring a Senior Platform Engineer to own production systems end-to-end, operating

distributed and model-driven workloads at scale in a cloud-native environment.

Why this role

● Own production systems end-to-end: design and operate infrastructure on

Microsoft Azure, including reliability, incidents, and platform stability

● Direct impact on live systems: run and scale user-facing services on Kubernetes,

optimising for performance, reliability, and cost

● Serious engineering environment: build and operate CI/CD systems that enable

fast, repeatable, and safe deployments

● Complex, distributed systems: implement observability and solve real scaling

challenges

● Drive platform evolution: lead infrastructure-as-code and automation across

environments

● Work on meaningful workloads: operate model-serving and inference systems in

production, with the autonomy to improve and evolve the platform

Apply if you:

● Have strong experience operating large-scale production systems as a Platform /

SRE / DevOps Engineer

● Bring deep hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure and Kubernetes in production

● Build and operate CI/CD systems, and write Python for automation

● Understand system reliability, security, and cloud-native best practices, and can

work directly with engineering teams to deploy and run services in production

Nice to have

● Experience running model-serving / inference systems in production or supporting

GPU workloads

● Comfortable using tools like Claude or Cursor to improve workflows

Package

● $140K–170K base + bonus (depending on experience)

● 30 days holiday + public holidays

● Family medical + education allowance

● UAE visa sponsorship + relocation support

📩 Apply for this role

This position is based in the UAE and requires relocation and full-time onsite work.

Contact: dana@durlstonpartners.com