Azure Platform Engineer - Hybrid Cloud & Security Lead

Gulf Agency Company; Dubai; Hybrid; AED 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Gulf Agency Company seeks an experienced Group-IT Platform Engineer - Azure in Dubai to ensure reliability, availability, security, and performance of our hybrid infrastructure serving 6,000+ users globally.

The role focuses on Azure, networking, backup, DR, and security, with responsibilities spanning architecture, access control, and incident troubleshooting. Strong communication and leadership are required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in information technology, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 7+ years of experience in Cloud platforms (IaaS, PaaS, NaaS)
• Azure certifications such as AZ-104, AZ-305, AI-200/300, Linux/Windows certs are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Manage and troubleshoot enterprise Cloud platform.
• Manage Azure networking (VNets, subnets, NSGs, UDRs, VPN Gateway, VNet Peering).
• Implement and maintain IaaS, PaaS, load balancers and cloud networking.
• Establish platform and reference architecture, change management.
• Implement Entra ID authentication, authorization, SSO, B2C and RBAC.
• Implement data permissions and document-level security.
• Enable secure access to internal documents and knowledge sources.
• Implement security controls and support vulnerability remediation.
• Manage backup and disaster recovery (Azure Site Recovery).
• Conduct backup testing, recovery exercises, failover/failback, meet RPO/RTO.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure incidents in Cloud environments.
• Maintain infrastructure documentation, diagrams, standards, and procedures.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure leadership

Troubleshooting

Security controls

Documentation

Change management

Communication skills

Adaptability

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor’s / Master’s degree in information technology, Computer Science, or related field

Tools

Azure

Azure Site Recovery

Entra ID

VNet Peering

NSG

VPN Gateway

Job description

Gulf Agency Company seeks an experienced Group-IT Platform Engineer - Azure in Dubai to ensure reliability, availability, security, and performance of our hybrid infrastructure serving 6,000+ users globally.

The role focuses on Azure, networking, backup, DR, and security, with responsibilities spanning architecture, access control, and incident troubleshooting. Strong communication and leadership are required.