Cloud Foundation Engineer

We're excited to be partnering with a leading institution in the UAE that is building a digital-first, AI-enabled financial services organisation from the ground up. This is a unique opportunity to join at an early stage and help shape the technology, data, and platform foundations of a business with significant institutional backing and long-term ambition. If you're passionate about cloud engineering, platform foundations, and building scalable cloud environments, we'd love to hear from you.

As a Cloud Foundation Engineer, you'll play a key role in building the Azure cloud platform that powers the bank from day one. You'll work on cloud foundations, landing zones, identity, networking, governance, Infrastructure as Code, and automation, enabling engineering teams to safely and securely consume cloud services at scale.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain Azure landing zones, tenancy architecture, and automated environment provisioning capabilities.

• Implement policy-as-code guardrails using Azure Policy and cloud governance frameworks.

• Engineer cloud identity services using Microsoft Entra, managed identities, and privileged access controls.

• Build and maintain cloud networking foundations including hub-and-spoke architectures, private endpoints, and DNS services.

• Develop and manage reusable Terraform modules and infrastructure automation capabilities.

• Implement FinOps tooling, cloud cost governance, monitoring, drift detection, and automated remediation.

Requirements

• 6+ years of hands-on cloud or platform engineering experience, ideally within banking, fintech, or another regulated environment.

• Strong Azure experience including landing zones, Azure Policy, Microsoft Entra, and cloud networking.

• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, including module development and automated testing.

• Experience with GitOps delivery, CI/CD pipelines, and production cloud environments.

• Exposure to FinOps, cloud cost management, drift remediation, and cloud governance practices.

• Experience using AI-assisted engineering tools and modern software delivery practices.

Ready to join us? Apply today and take the next step in your career.