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.