CLOUD ARCHITECT

Domain Architect - Cloud

Role Purpose:

Provide hands-on cloud architecture expertise by translating organizational cloud security infrastructure and data requirements into practical standards patterns templates and governance artefacts while guiding and assuring cloud solutions delivered by product teams and vendors.

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.

Location: Abu Dhabi UAE (on-site) Duration: 4 months Start: ASAP subject to security clearance Language: Arabic speakers preferred

Vertical:

Technology