Cloud Domain Architect: Standards, Patterns & Governance

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

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.