Senior Platform Engineer – Azure Focus

Location: Abu Dhabi, UAE
Experience: 8+ Years

Role Overview:

We are looking for Senior Platform Engineer to design, build, scale, and evolve the Azure AI Platform as a reusable enterprise product.

The role focuses on building cloud-native platform capabilities and hybrid-cloud ecosystems for a large financial enterprise, with particular emphasis on AI service operationalization, security, reusable platform products, and automated infrastructure controls.

Key Responsibilities:

Azure AI Platform Engineering

  • Architect and deploy production-ready modular Azure AI platform capabilities.
  • Define platform boundaries, service contracts, tenancy patterns, scaling models, and secure integration standards.
  • Build shared AI service capabilities by standardizing access to:
    • Azure OpenAI
    • Azure AI Search
    • Document Intelligence
    • Agent and tool orchestration patterns

Infrastructure as Code & Automation

  • Standardize application consumption through APIs, SDKs, templates, and reference implementations.
  • Define reusable Terraform modules and templatized infrastructure patterns.
  • Build standardized network, identity, security, tagging, and observability capabilities into infrastructure provisioning.
  • Implement policy-as-code and automated validation for naming, approved SKUs, network isolation, and compliance.

Platform Operations

  • Provide self-service provisioning through GitHub Actions or platform APIs.
  • Establish reusable platform patterns, release management, documentation, and onboarding journeys.
  • Engineer production runtimes on AKS and Azure Container Apps for APIs, agents, MCP servers, and asynchronous workloads.
  • Manage API lifecycles using Azure API Management and Kong.

Required Skills & Experience:

  • 8+ years of experience with the Azure Cloud Platform.
  • Strong expertise in Terraform and GitHub Actions, including modular design, automated testing, and controlled promotion.
  • Familiarity with Azure AI Foundry and Azure OpenAI Service.
  • Expert knowledge of network architecture including:
    • VNETs
    • Peering
    • Firewalls
    • Private Links
  • Hands-on experience with Azure API Management or Kong.
  • Strong Cloud Architecture and Solution Architecture capabilities.
  • Deep hands-on expertise with:
    • AKS
    • Azure Container Apps
    • Azure AI Foundry
    • Azure OpenAI
    • APIM
    • Identity
    • Private Networking
  • Experience with Kubernetes, containers, platform APIs, SDK design, observability, and SRE practices.
  • Ability to translate security, risk, and compliance requirements into automated platform controls.

Apply Now: [email protected]

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