Azure DevOps Engineer - Lead

Job Title: Lead DevOps Engineer (Azure Terraform)
Employment Type: Full-time
Location: Abu Dhabi (UAE)

Note: This role requires flexibility to relocate to Abu Dhabi (UAE) for onsite client requirements.

About the Role:

NorthBay a leading AWS Premier Partner is seeking a highly skilled Lead DevOps Engineer (Azure Terraform) to join its growing cloud and AI engineering team. This role is ideal for candidates with a strong foundation in cloud DevOps practices and a passion for implementing scalable MLOps solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design implement and manage CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform
• Manage and scale container orchestration environments using Kubernetes including experience with larger production-grade clusters
• Ensure cloud infrastructure is optimized secure and monitored effectively
• Collaborate with data science teams to support ML model deployment and operationalization
• Implement MLOps best practices including model versioning deployment strategies (e.g. blue-green) monitoring (data drift concept drift) and experiment tracking (e.g. MLflow)
• Build and maintain automated ML pipelines to streamline model lifecycle management

Required Skills:

• 8 to 12 years of experience in DevOps and/or MLOps roles
• Proficient in CI/CD tools: Jenkins GitHub Actions Azure DevOps
• Strong expertise in Terraform including managing and scaling infrastructure across large environments
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes in larger clusters including workload distribution autoscaling and cluster monitoring
• Strong understanding of containerization technologies (Docker) and microservices architecture
• Solid grasp of cloud networking security best practices and observability
• Scripting proficiency in Bash and Python

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with MLflow TFX Kubeflow or SageMaker Pipelines
• Knowledge of model performance monitoring and ML system reliability
• Familiarity with AWS MLOps stack or equivalent tools on Azure/GCP

Required Experience:

Senior IC

Key Skills
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Experience: years
Vacancy: 1