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
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This position is based in the UAE and requires relocation and full-time onsite work.
Contact: dana@durlstonpartners.com