DevOps Engineer - Banking Industry
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Fecundity Technologies is hiring a DevOps Engineer for the banking industry to own the AWA platform's deployment, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, and operational reliability on Azure.
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Responsibilities
- Own and maintain all AWA Azure infrastructure in Terraform/Bicep: AKS 5 namespace cluster, ADLS Gen2 accounts with WORM policies, Azure AI Foundry APIM configurations, Azure Firewall allowlists, private endpoints, Key Vault, Container Registry, ExpressRoute peering
- Design and maintain Azure DevOps pipelines for all AWA components: container image build → ACR push → Notary v2 signing → AKS deployment; Terraform plan → policy check → apply; Agent Regression Testing gate on every PR
- Manage the 5 namespace AKS cluster — namespace isolation, Network Policies, Pod Disruption Budgets, KEDA autoscaling rules based on Kafka consumer lag, OPA Gatekeeper admission policies, Workload Identity bindings for all agent pods
- Manage ACR, enforce Notary v2 image signing, configure vulnerability scanning, maintain the approved image ConfigMap used by OPA Gatekeeper admission control
- Own Azure Key Vault configuration — access policies per managed identity, automatic TLS certificate rotation, secret rotation schedules, audit of all secret access events
- Configure Azure Monitor alert rules and Log Analytics KQL queries for SLA breach, error rate spike, pod crash loop, token budget breach, and Kafka consumer lag; maintain PagerDuty escalation paths
- Work with the AI Security Engineer to implement Azure Policy assignments, Defender for Cloud recommendations, Firewall rule reviews, and Private Endpoint configurations; maintain the AWA network topology diagram
- Maintain and test DR procedures: failover to UAE South replica for ADLS Gen2, Azure AI Foundry PTU → PAYG → DR endpoint routing, Orkes cluster recovery, RTO/RPO validation
Requirements
- 5+ years DevOps/Platform Engineering; 2+ years on Azure
- Terraform or Bicep — production IaC, not just templates
- Kubernetes / AKS: namespaces, RBAC, Network Policies, Helm charts, Kustomize
- Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions — multi stage pipelines, approvals, environments
- Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, KQL query language
- Container ecosystem: Docker, ACR, image signing, admission control
- Azure networking: VNet, private endpoints, NSGs, Azure Firewall, ExpressRoute concepts
- KEDA (Kubernetes Event Driven Autoscaling) or equivalent autoscaling experience
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or equivalent
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Role Overview
- The DevOps Engineer owns the AWA platform's deployment, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and operational reliability.
- You ensure that every AWA component — from AKS namespaces and KEDA autoscalers to ADLS Gen2 lifecycle policies and Azure Firewall allowlists — is deployed consistently, tested automatically, and operated reliably within ADCB's Azure UAE environment.
- You are the guardian of the AWA infrastructure: nothing is deployed manually; everything is reproducible from code.
Key Responsibilities
- Infrastructure as code: Own and maintain all AWA Azure infrastructure in Terraform/Bicep: AKS 5 namespace cluster, ADLS Gen2 accounts with WORM policies, Azure AI Foundry APIM configurations, Azure Firewall allowlists, private endpoints, Key Vault, Container Registry, ExpressRoute peering.
- CI/CD pipeline ownership: Design and maintain Azure DevOps pipelines for all AWA components: container image build → ACR push → Notary v2 signing → AKS deployment; Terraform plan → policy check → apply; Agent Regression Testing gate on every PR.
- AKS operations: Manage the 5 namespace AKS cluster — namespace isolation, Network Policies, Pod Disruption Budgets, KEDA autoscaling rules based on Kafka consumer lag, OPA Gatekeeper admission policies, Workload Identity bindings for all agent pods.
- Container governance: Manage ACR, enforce Notary v2 image signing, configure vulnerability scanning, maintain the approved image ConfigMap used by OPA Gatekeeper admission control.
- Secret and certificate management: Own Azure Key Vault configuration — access policies per managed identity, automatic TLS certificate rotation, secret rotation schedules, audit of all secret access events.
- Monitoring and alerting: Configure Azure Monitor alert rules and Log Analytics KQL queries for SLA breach, error rate spike, pod crash loop, token budget breach, and Kafka consumer lag; maintain PagerDuty escalation paths.
- Security posture: Work with the AI Security Engineer to implement Azure Policy assignments, Defender for Cloud recommendations, Firewall rule reviews, and Private Endpoint configurations; maintain the AWA network topology diagram.
- Disaster recovery: Maintain and test DR procedures: failover to UAE South replica for ADLS Gen2, Azure AI Foundry PTU → PAYG → DR endpoint routing, Orkes cluster recovery, RTO/RPO validation.
Required Skills and Experience Technical — Essential
- 5+ years DevOps/Platform Engineering; 2+ years on Azure
- Terraform or Bicep — production IaC, not just templates
- Kubernetes / AKS: namespaces, RBAC, Network Policies, Helm charts, Kustomize
- Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions — multi stage pipelines, approvals, environments
- Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, KQL query language
- Container ecosystem: Docker, ACR, image signing, admission control
- Azure networking: VNet, private endpoints, NSGs, Azure Firewall, ExpressRoute concepts
- KEDA (Kubernetes Event Driven Autoscaling) or equivalent autoscaling experience
Technical — Advantageous
- Azure Key Vault, managed identity, Workload Identity for Kubernetes
- OPA Gatekeeper or Kyverno for Kubernetes policy enforcement
- Kafka / Azure Event Hubs — consumer group management, lag monitoring
- ADLS Gen2, WORM immutable storage, lifecycle management policies
- Azure AI Foundry / APIM — token quotas, rate limiting, backend routing configuration
- Security tooling: Defender for Cloud, Sentinel, Notary v2
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or equivalent
- Azure Administrator Associate (AZ 104) or DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ 400) strongly preferred
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) advantageous
Pay
- AED 17,000.00 AED 21,000.00 per month
Work Location
- In person
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