DevOps Engineer

Halian is hiring Senior DevOps Engineer in Abu Dhabi.

Greetings!

Experience required: 6+ Years

Duration: 1 year & extendable

Notice Period: Immediate/15 Days

Technical Skills:

• Deep hands-on experience with Azure Repos, Azure YAML Pipelines, Azure Artifacts, and Azure Test Plans, plus Azure DevOps REST APIs and extensions.
• End-to-end pipelines for complex applications across all environments; GitHub Actions; blue-green and canary deployment strategies.
• Production-grade experience across the Azure ecosystem, including APIM, Azure Front Door,App gateway and CDN.
• Docker, Kubernetes (AKS), Helm, and GitOps delivery with ArgoCD or Flux. Service mesh experience (Istio / Linkerd) a strong plus.
• Terraform (Azure provider, remote state in Azure Storage, Azure Verified Modules), ARM templates, and Azure Resource Graph.
• Security integrated into CI/CD, with tools such as SonarQube, HashiCorp Vault, and HP Fortify. Familiarity with SAST, DAST, SCA, container/image scanning, secret scanning, and policy-as-code.
• Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics, Kusto Query Language (KQL), and Azure Workbooks. Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace, or the Elastic/Kibana stack is a plus.
• Hands-on experience implementing FinOps practices and tooling to monitor, allocate, and optimize cloud spend.
• PowerShell, Azure CLI, Azure PowerShell module, Python, and Bash.
• Git, GitHub, Azure Repos, branching strategies (GitFlow, trunk-based development), and pull request policies.
• Microservices and serverless architectures on Azure; strong grasp of Agile/DevOps culture, the Azure Well-Architected Framework, and the Cloud Adoption Framework.
• Exposure to Azure AI Foundry, Azure Machine Learning, Azure OpenAI Service, and Azure AI Search — plus MCP server and MCP tool integration experience.

Nice to Have

• Certifications: Microsoft Certified DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400), Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305), Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104), Azure Security Engineer Associate (AZ-500), FinOps Certified Practitioner, or Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS).
• Experience with Azure Landing Zones and enterprise-scale architectures.
• A track record of driving cost-awareness culture across engineering teams and partnering with finance stakeholders.

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