Job Code: 5191
Job Title:
Infrastructure Reliability Engineer (FTC)
Contract Type:
6 months and extendable
Payroll:
Sundus
Client: Private cybersecurity company
Location: Abu Dhabi
Experience: 5 – 8 yrs experience in a DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering capacity in a mid to large infrastructure environment.
Education: Bachelor’s degree
Benefits: Health insurance
Language: English
Overview
We are seeking a contractor for Infrastructure Reliability Engineer to support our ongoing efforts in maintaining, optimizing, and securing our critical systems and services. This role is ideal for a technically skilled professional who thrives in complex environments, enjoys operational problem-solving, and brings a strong sense of ownership to platform stability and resilience.
A multidisciplinary team focused on building, operating, and continuously improving infrastructure across a diverse landscape—including on-premise data centers, private cloud, and hyperscale public cloud environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Contribute to the reliability, stability, and performance of core infrastructure systems.
- Support day-to-day operations, incident response, and proactive maintenance activities.
- Enhance monitoring, observability, and alerting capabilities to ensure system health and visibility.
- Collaborate on release engineering processes to streamline deployment pipelines and reduce risk.
- Assist with containerized application support and orchestration within modern infrastructure platforms.
- Apply security best practices across infrastructure components and operational procedures.
- Participate in platform lifecycle management, including patching, upgrades, and configuration optimization.
- Document and evolve operational processes to drive consistency, resilience, and efficiency.
Qualifications
- Demonstrated 5 – 8 yrs experience in a DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering capacity in a mid to large infrastructure environment.
- Strong understanding of Linux systems administration, networking fundamentals, and system-level troubleshooting.
- Hands-on experience with monitoring and observability tools in a production environment.
- Familiarity with modern deployment strategies and release automation practices.
- Working knowledge of containerization technologies and orchestration concepts.
- Exposure to both traditional data center infrastructure and public cloud service models.
- Security-aware, with practical knowledge of secure system design and operational controls.
- Proven ability to operate independently in dynamic environments, with a mindset for continuous improvement.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with immutable infrastructure concepts and infrastructure-as-code practices.
- Familiarity with regulatory and compliance requirements in enterprise IT environments.
- Strong documentation skills and ability to contribute to operational knowledge bases.
- Collaborative mindset and experience working in cross-functional teams.
