DevOps Engineer I

Annual releases gave way to two-week sprints years ago, and the platform now handles over 200 million API calls a day. We run one of the larger SaaS platforms for commercial insurance carriers, processing millions of policy transactions a year. On-call rotates weekly and pays a flat stipend whether or not the pager goes off.

The role

Plowshare Software is hiring a DevOps Engineer I for our Abu Dhabi location. We are moving workloads from VMs to Kubernetes and want someone who has done that kind of migration before. This is a fully remote position open to candidates anywhere in the UAE.

What you'll be doing

• Create and maintain Docker base images and keep them patched
• Implement blue-green and canary deployments
• Document runbooks and infrastructure standards
• Enforce security baselines: CIS benchmarks, image scanning, least-privilege IAM
• Track and reduce cloud spend with tagging, budgets and rightsizing
• Run Kubernetes clusters on EKS, AKS or GKE and maintain Helm charts

Required qualifications

• 0-2 years in DevOps, systems engineering or a related infrastructure role
• Calm under pressure during outages
• Familiarity with Git branching strategies and release management
• Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure or GCP in production
• Scripting in Bash and Python

Nice to have

• Exposure to SOC 2 or ISO 27001 audits
• Background in software development
• Packer for image builds
• Service meshes like Istio or Linkerd

What you get

• Medical insurance
• 30 days annual leave
• End of service gratuity
• Education allowance for children
• Visa provided
• Tax-free salary
• Annual bonus

Applications are reviewed weekly.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Plowshare Software.