Senior Platform Engineer

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Senior Platform Engineer designing scalable infrastructure and improving CI/CD pipelines at Justlife. Collaborate across teams to enhance platform reliability in a growing tech startup in Dubai.

Responsibilities:

  • Architect and evolve Justlife’s internal developer platform on AWS (ECS, EKS, Lambda)
  • Design scalable, resilient, and observable infrastructure using Terraform
  • Own and improve CI/CD pipelines across Bitbucket, AWS CodeBuild/CodePipeline, Tekton, and ArgoCD
  • Enable self-service workflows and paved paths to boost developer productivity
  • Partner closely with backend and frontend engineering teams to support reliable application delivery
  • Define and apply reliability patterns including auto-scaling, failover, rollback, and alerting
  • Lead incident response, post-incident reviews, and proactive reliability improvements
  • Advance observability through dashboards, alerts, and instrumentation
  • Implement secure-by-default infrastructure practices and compliance automation
  • Mentor engineers through design reviews, technical guidance, and knowledge sharing

Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience)
  • Strong experience in Platform Engineering, DevSecOps, or SRE within cloud-native environments
  • Hands-on expertise with AWS infrastructure and distributed systems
  • Deep knowledge of Terraform and infrastructure-as-code best practices
  • Proven experience improving CI/CD, release automation, and deployment workflows
  • Solid understanding of observability, SLOs, incident management, and operational readiness
  • Practical experience with MySQL/Aurora, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, Redis/Valkey, or Memcached
  • Experience optimizing AWS costs at scale
  • Familiarity with Java, PHP, Python, or JavaScript environments
  • Exposure to AI-native platform or automation practices
  • Strong problem-solving skills, ownership mindset, and clear communication
  • Passion for mentorship and building high-performing engineering teams

Benefits:

  • We care about you
  • Remote working arrangements depending on the job.
  • One-day extra vacation on your birthday with our JustHoliday!
  • Free Justlife credits so you can enjoy our own services.
  • Work reality escapes opportunities through team-building games, challenges, and many more activities.
  • We improve you
  • Working with a great team and entrepreneurial spirit.
  • Continuous learning with mentorship, coaching, on-the-job, and internal-external training.
  • Never-ending growth and fast career development and internal career opportunities.
  • A fair and objective Performance Management System.
  • We recognize you
  • Ignition of the hero in you through our ‘JustHeroes’ Reward and Recognition Program.
  • Availability of company discounts and gift vouchers.
  • A bonus for every successful Employee Referral.