Senior Technical Site Engineer

A fast-growing, global technology company operating at the forefront of autonomous systems and aviation technology is expanding its presence in the UAE and is looking to hire a Senior Technical Site Engineer.

This is a hands-on, senior technical role combining Tier 3 production support, SRE, and DevOps responsibilities, with strong exposure to mission-critical systems, customer-facing environments, and global engineering teams.

What you’ll be doing:

• Act as the Tier 3 escalation point for complex production incidents
• Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and post-mortems
• Monitor and optimise system performance using observability tools
• Work closely with R&D, DevOps, and Product teams globally
• Write scripts, automation tools, and apply hotfixes where required
• Support local deployments, releases, demos, and live operational events
• Serve as a local technical expert in customer and stakeholder meetings
• Help build and mature on-site support operations in the UAE
• Mentor and support other on-site technical engineers

What we’re looking for:

• 6+ years’ experience in DevOps, SRE, or Tier 3 production support
• Strong hands-on experience with Node.js and MongoDB
• Production experience with Kubernetes
• Familiarity with RabbitMQ or similar messaging systems
• Strong experience with observability tools (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, Kibana)
• Cloud experience (G42 preferred, AWS also acceptable)
• Confident debugging, patching, and managing production releases
• Comfortable working in mission-critical or regulated environments
• Strong communication skills and confidence in customer-facing situations
• Able to work independently in complex, fast-paced environments

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