Senior AI DevOps Engineer
On-site · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates or Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Job Summary
Senior AI DevOps Engineer responsible for designing and implementing secure, scalable cloud architectures across Azure and AWS for core banking and AI platforms. Leads hybrid-cloud strategy, FinOps optimization, and zero-trust security implementations to ensure compliance with financial regulations while providing technical mentorship to engineering squads. Responsibilities include architecting secure multi-cloud infrastructures with high-level and low-level designs, implementing governance and automated compliance, optimizing cloud costs, designing end-to-end deployment pipelines with vulnerability gates and code auditing, and clearly communicating architectural decisions to senior business units and risk committees. Mentors mid-level engineers, drives infrastructure automation, cloud routing, and identity management, and collaborates with senior leaders to balance delivery excellence with growth.
Required Qualifications
- In-depth technical architecture knowledge across both AWS and Azure environments, specifically touching identity ecosystems, serverless workloads, and database engines.
- Designing architectures that strictly comply with banking standards such as PCI-DSS, ISO/IEC 27001, and local financial regulations.
- Advanced capability in drafting complex, modular, and reusable enterprise infrastructure templates utilizing tools like Terraform or Bicep.
- Proficiency in structuring secure network typologies, cloud-native firewalls, private service endpoints, and cross-cloud secure mesh routings.
- Ability to articulate abstract technical architectures into concrete business value summaries for senior non-technical leadership.
- A minimum of 8 years in infrastructure engineering, cloud operations, or systems architecture, with at least 3 years explicitly spent operating as a Senior Engineer or Tech Lead across dual-cloud environments.
- Documented experience designing and engineering automated infrastructure within a regulated tier-1 or tier-2 banking or insurance institution.
- Proven track record of authoring, defending, and delivering production-ready High-Level Designs (HLDs) and Low-Level Designs (LLDs) to corporate architecture boards.
- Experience directing technical workloads, establishing engineering velocity metrics, and upskilling cross-functional platform delivery squads.
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