Cloud Architect
Job Location : UAE , Abu Dhabi
Key Responsibilities:
• Translate enterprise architecture, cloud, security, data residency, infrastructure, and operational policies into clear cloud architecture standards and guidelines.
• Develop and maintain cloud reference architectures, approved patterns, design templates, review checklists, quality-gate criteria, and architecture decision records.
• Define standards for cloud landing zones, networking, identity and access management, security, containers, hosting, resilience, backup, disaster recovery, observability, and infrastructure automation.
• Provide hands-on cloud architecture guidance during planning, sourcing, design, implementation, and readiness stages.
• Review cloud HLDs, LLDs, infrastructure designs, deployment architectures, connectivity designs, and disaster-recovery plans prepared by product teams and vendors.
• Assess compliance with cloud security, scalability, availability, performance, interoperability, data residency, and operational requirements.
• Identify cloud architecture risks, gaps, technical debt, non-compliance, and required remediation.
• Promote reuse of approved cloud services, shared components, deployment patterns, and infrastructure templates.
• Assess emerging cloud technologies and provide architecture-fit and adoption recommendations.
• Support cloud architecture quality gates and provide domain architecture recommendations and approval inputs.
Minimum Profile:
• 8+ years of infrastructure and cloud experience, including cloud architecture responsibilities.
• Strong hands-on experience developing cloud standards, reference architectures, patterns, templates, and governance artefacts.
• Strong knowledge of cloud landing zones, networking, security, identity, containers, resilience, disaster recovery, observability, and infrastructure as code.
• Experience reviewing and assuring enterprise-scale cloud solutions.
• Relevant professional cloud architecture certification is preferred.
• Government, regulated-sector, or large-enterprise experience is preferred.