Senior DevOps Engineer - Robotics & Infrastructure Platform

Senior DevOps Engineer

Robotics / Infrastructure / Platform Engineering - ROLE IS BASED IN ABU DHABI - Requires Abu Dhabi.

This is to help grow a new group and the hiring manager is looking for his right hand person for this team that is going to expand rapidly over the next 18 months from 1 to a team of 10.

He is ideally looking for a PHD/Masters Grad with 4-5 years in a well structured/process organisation that has a mix of DevOps, Infrastructure and Data / architecture knowledge as with the expanding remit, the diversity of challenges will be vast :)

The Package

Relocation to Abu Dhabi supported – amazing package – Education (30,000 AED per child per year) + flights out and home for you + family + x2 first month salary + 1 month hotel + free lunch each day + Paddle

Salary around 100-115K Euro TAX FREE

Key Skills: Kubernetes / K8s | Linux Infrastructure | DevOps / Platform Engineering/ Data Enginering/ Soft Architecture/ Strong Infrastructure knowledge + Docker | GitLab CI/CD | Any ROS 2 / Robotics Environments is a bonus + Python | Bash | Simulation Automation

This is a brilliant opportunity for a Senior/LeadDevOps Engineer who wants to work much closer to the world of robotics, autonomous systems and advanced engineering platforms. Not just keeping pipelines ticking over.

This role is about building the infrastructure that allows engineering teams to develop, test, simulate and deploy complex robotics software properly — at scale, across sites, and without everything being held together in the wrong way…..

You will be working across Linux infrastructure, CI/CD, Docker-based developer environments, Kubernetes/container orchestration, ROS 2 build environments, simulation automation and Python tooling.

The focus is on creating reliable, repeatable, production-ready engineering infrastructure for teams working on serious robotics and software systems, and supporting the hiring manager to build and scale up this group.

What you’ll be doing

You’ll be responsible for designing, improving and maintaining GitLab CI/CD pipelines, shared template libraries, multi-stage build/test workflows and deployment automation.

You’ll build and manage Docker-based developer environments, Dev Containers and production images, while supporting private container registries, artifact management and image lifecycle policies. Provision and maintain Linux-based development infrastructure, including development VMs, local engineering environments and scalable testing infrastructure across multiple sites. Also part of the role is supporting robotics engineering teams, including ROS 2-based software stacks, multi-repository workspace automation, simulation environments and reproducible test/validation workflows.

You’ll also support data and observability tooling, including ETL workflows, robotics/operational data pipelines, monitoring, logging and Python-based tooling for analysis and system output visibility.

What we’re looking for

PHD in Computer Science

Strong hands-on experience with:

Kubernetes / container orchestration

Linux development environments — Ubuntu / Debian

GitLab CI/CD pipelines, runners and shared templates

Docker, Docker Compose and Dev Containers

Infrastructure automation and environment provisioning

Private registries, artifact management and package repositories

Python and Bash scripting

ROS 2 build / infrastructure support

Simulation or test automation environments

GitLab, Bitbucket, Jira / Confluence

You do not need to be a robotics engineer by trade, but you do need to be comfortable supporting the infrastructure behind robotics, simulation and complex multi-repo software environments.

Nice to have

Experience with Kubernetes, automating simulation environments, provisioning Linux-based development VMs, supporting autonomous systems or robotics platforms, and setting up infrastructure in a greenfield or new-site environment would all be highly relevant.

Why this role?

This is a proper platform/infrastructure role in a serious engineering environment.

You’ll be helping teams move faster, test better, deploy cleaner and build robotics systems with infrastructure that actually works which, in this space, is worth its weight in gold.

Interview Process

2 Technical Interview

1 x Tec Test

1 x HR chat – Security Clearance Docs

Offer

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