About the role

Meridian Gulf Digital is hiring a platform engineer in Dubai. This role owns the path from a merged pull request to a running, observable service, and the on-call experience that follows it. Because a mistake here reaches every team at once, we care about production experience and blast-radius thinking far more than about certifications.

Salaries in the UAE are advertised and paid MONTHLY and are free of income tax, which makes a straight comparison against an annual European or Indian figure misleading in both directions. Read the range below as what lands each month.

What the work actually looks like

You will work on CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and the observability stack, and you will spend real time removing the toil the rest of engineering has quietly learned to live with. Incidents are reviewed blamelessly and the actions that come out of them are actually scheduled. The team works a hybrid week out of Dubai, usually three days together and the rest wherever you work best.

What we look for

This is a mid-level role. You should already be able to take a loosely specified problem, break it down and ship it without close supervision. We are looking for someone fluent in Kubernetes and Terraform who can also write decent code, and who treats a runbook as a product with users. Experience defining SLOs and making them mean something is a strong signal.

Working at Meridian Gulf Digital

The working week runs Monday to Friday, the company sponsors employment visas for the successful candidate and their dependants, and relocation is arranged and paid for. This is a contract engagement and the range shown is a DAY rate, inclusive of the usual contract premium.

Responsibilities

Own CI/CD pipelines and keep the path to production fast and reversible
Manage infrastructure as code with reviewed, repeatable changes
Run the observability stack: metrics, logs, traces and alerting that people trust
Reduce operational toil and make the on-call rotation humane
Lead incident response and turn reviews into scheduled work

Requirements

Production experience with Kubernetes and a major cloud provider
Terraform or an equivalent infrastructure-as-code tool
Comfortable scripting and writing small services, not only configuration
Experience with Prometheus, Grafana or a comparable observability stack
Calm, methodical approach to incidents and post-incident follow-up

Skills

KubernetesTerraformAWSDockerPrometheusCI/CD

Benefits

Tax-free monthly salary
Company-sponsored employment visa for you and your family
Private medical insurance
Annual return flight home and 25 days of leave

Meridian Gulf Digital

Dubai501-1000 peopleDigital Banking

Meridian Gulf Digital is the technology arm of a Gulf retail bank. We build the mobile app, the onboarding flow and the payments rails behind them, serving customers across the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain in Arabic and English.

Everything we ship is bilingual and right-to-left from the first commit rather than as a later translation pass, and everything touching money is reconciled daily. The regulatory bar is high and the engineering culture is built around it.

Our offices are in Dubai Internet City and Abu Dhabi. Salaries here are quoted and paid monthly and are free of income tax, and the company sponsors employment visas and relocation for candidates joining from abroad.

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