CLOUD ARCHITECT

Duncan & Ross Consulting; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Duncan & Ross Consulting is seeking a Domain Architect - Cloud for an on-site role in Abu Dhabi. You will translate requirements into cloud standards, create reference architectures, and govern deployment patterns for enterprise-scale solutions.

Responsibilities include guiding product teams and vendors, reviewing HLDs/LLDs, and ensuring security, resilience, and data residency compliance. 4-month term, ASAP start, Arabic language preference.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of infrastructure and cloud experience.
• Hands-on experience creating cloud standards, reference architectures, patterns and governance artefacts.
• Strong knowledge of cloud landing zones, networking, security, IAM, containers, resilience, DR, observability, and IaC.
• Experience reviewing enterprise-scale cloud solutions.
• Professional cloud architecture certification preferred.
• Government or regulated-sector/large-enterprise experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Translate enterprise architecture, cloud, security, data residency, infrastructure, and operational policies into 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 from 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 remediation needs.
• 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.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Standards & governance

IaC & security

Enterprise cloud reviews

Certification preferred

Regulated-enterprise experience

Job description

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