# Senior Platform Engineer - Cloud & Kubernetes

> Weekday AI · Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates · Full-time · Posted 2026-09-23

**Salary:** INR 2,600,000–4,500,000

**Workplace:** on_site

**Department:** Weekday's Client via platform

## Description

𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗱𝗮𝘆'𝘀 𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀

𝗦𝗮𝗹𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲: 𝗥𝘀 𝟮𝟲𝟬𝟬𝟬𝟬𝟬 - 𝗥𝘀 𝟰𝟱𝟬𝟬𝟬𝟬𝟬 (𝗶𝗲 𝗜𝗡𝗥 𝟮𝟲-𝟰𝟱 𝗟𝗣𝗔)

Experience: 5+ yrs

Location: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Job Type: Full-time

We are looking for an experienced **Senior Platform Engineer** to design, implement, secure, and operate scalable cloud-native platforms using **Microsoft Azure and Kubernetes**. The role focuses on building highly available, resilient, secure, and well-governed production environments while driving automation, observability, infrastructure-as-code, and platform engineering best practices.

The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on expertise across **Azure, AKS, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, cloud governance, security, observability, and Disaster Recovery**, along with the ability to provide technical leadership across complex platform environments.

## Requirements

Key Responsibilities

-   Design, deploy, and manage **Microsoft Azure infrastructure and AKS/Kubernetes platforms**.
-   Implement and maintain **Disaster Recovery, backup, restore, and business continuity** solutions.
-   Build infrastructure automation using **Terraform, Helm, Azure DevOps, and CI/CD pipelines**.
-   Manage Kubernetes networking, ingress, storage, namespaces, resource limits, security, and platform configurations.
-   Implement observability solutions using **Prometheus, Grafana, Loki**, and related monitoring technologies.
-   Manage TLS certificates, secrets, access controls, RBAC, and platform security mechanisms.
-   Establish cloud and Kubernetes governance covering resource organisation, naming, tagging, security policies, and operational standards.
-   Define **Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD governance**, including reusable Terraform modules, state management, code reviews, approval gates, environment promotion, and artifact management.
-   Participate in architecture and technical design reviews for platforms, applications, integrations, and infrastructure changes.
-   Drive security and compliance readiness through vulnerability remediation, access reviews, security baselines, audit controls, and policy enforcement.
-   Define and monitor platform **availability, SLIs, SLOs, capacity, performance, and operational health**.
-   Lead incident and problem management, including root-cause analysis, corrective actions, and prevention of recurring issues.
-   Perform capacity planning, performance optimisation, and **cloud cost optimisation / FinOps** activities.
-   Own DR testing, RTO/RPO validation, backup and recovery standards, and periodic recovery exercises.
-   Plan and execute platform migrations, infrastructure upgrades, and cloud transformation initiatives.
-   Evaluate emerging platform technologies, conduct POCs, and establish approved patterns for production adoption.
-   Maintain technical documentation including **HLDs, LLDs, architecture diagrams, SOPs, runbooks, troubleshooting guides, and DR procedures**.
-   Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and knowledge sharing across platform engineering teams.

What Makes You a Great Fit

-   **5+ years of experience** in platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, or related roles.
-   Strong hands-on expertise in **Microsoft Azure and Kubernetes**, particularly AKS.
-   Strong experience with **Docker, Helm, Terraform, and Azure DevOps / CI/CD**.
-   Good understanding of Azure networking, including **VNets, NSGs, Private Endpoints, and Azure Firewall**.
-   Experience implementing observability using **Prometheus, Grafana, Loki**, or similar platforms.
-   Strong knowledge of **Linux, Bash scripting, Git, and GitOps practices**.
-   Proven experience with **Disaster Recovery, backup/restore, RTO/RPO planning, and recovery testing**.
-   Strong understanding of Kubernetes security, governance, RBAC, policy enforcement, and Azure Policy.
-   Experience establishing reusable **Infrastructure-as-Code patterns and platform engineering standards**.
-   Strong understanding of CI/CD governance, release controls, environment promotion, and source-control standards.
-   Experience working with databases such as **PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL, or Azure SQL**.
-   Strong knowledge of incident management, problem management, RCA, capacity planning, performance optimisation, and cloud cost management.
-   Experience working in **security-, compliance-, audit-, or governance-controlled environments**.
-   Ability to create and maintain HLDs, LLDs, architecture diagrams, operational runbooks, SOPs, and technical documentation.
-   Strong experience participating in architecture and technical design reviews.
-   Excellent troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving capabilities.
-   Strong technical leadership, mentoring, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
-   Experience in **banking or other regulated industries** would be an advantage.
-   Strong understanding of high availability, production operations, platform modernisation, and cloud transformation initiatives.

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