Cloud Architecture Lead — Standards, Security & Governance

Duncan & Ross; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 160,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Duncan & Ross in Abu Dhabi, UAE seeks a senior Cloud Architect to translate organizational cloud requirements into practical standards, templates and governance artefacts, guiding product teams and vendors through architecture decisions.

You will define cloud landing zones, security, IAM and resilience standards, and review designs for compliance and scalability. The role demands hands-on experience and enterprise-scale experience.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of infrastructure and cloud experience with architecture responsibilities.
• Hands-on experience building cloud standards, reference architectures, patterns and governance artefacts.
• Strong knowledge of cloud landing zones, networking, security, IAM, containers and IaC.
• Experience reviewing enterprise-scale cloud solutions and ensuring compliance.

Responsibilities

• Translate cloud and security policies into clear architecture standards and guidelines.
• Develop and maintain cloud reference architectures, design templates and review checklists.
• Define standards for landing zones, networking, IAM, security, containers and resilience.
• Provide hands-on guidance across planning, design, implementation and readiness stages.
• Review high/low-level designs and disaster-recovery plans for product teams and vendors.
• Assess compliance with security, scalability, availability, performance and data residency.
• Identify risks and remediation needs; promote reuse of approved services and templates.
• Advise on emerging cloud technologies and adoption strategies.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Security architecture

Reference architectures

Enterprise architecture

Infrastructure as code

Governance artefacts

Landing zones

Education

Cloud architecture certification

Job description

Duncan & Ross in Abu Dhabi, UAE seeks a senior Cloud Architect to translate organizational cloud requirements into practical standards, templates and governance artefacts, guiding product teams and vendors through architecture decisions.

You will define cloud landing zones, security, IAM and resilience standards, and review designs for compliance and scalability. The role demands hands-on experience and enterprise-scale experience.