Senior Software Engineer
16 days ago
Birmingham
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 📩 Apply for this role This position is based in the UAE and requires relocation and full-time onsite work. Contact: