Domain Architect – Cloud

Covalense Global; Dubai; On-site; AED 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Covalense Global is seeking a hands-on Domain Architect – Cloud in Dubai, UAE, onsite. You will translate enterprise cloud, security, and operations requirements into practical architecture standards and governance artefacts, guiding teams and vendors through the cloud solution lifecycle.

The role requires 8+ years in infrastructure and cloud tech, with deep knowledge of landing zones, IAM, security, containers, IaC, and DR.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in infrastructure and cloud technologies.
• Experience developing cloud standards, reference architectures, approved patterns, templates, and governance artefacts.
• Strong knowledge of cloud landing zones, networking, security, IAM, containers, hosting, resilience, disaster recovery, observability, and infrastructure as code.
• Experience reviewing and assuring enterprise-scale cloud solutions.
• Ability to identify architectural risks, compliance gaps, technical debt, and remediation measures.
• Experience guiding product teams and vendors through cloud planning, design, implementation, and readiness activities.

Responsibilities

• Translate enterprise architecture, cloud, security, infrastructure, data residency, 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 covering cloud landing zones, networking, IAM, security, containers, hosting, resilience, backup, disaster recovery, observability, and infrastructure automation.
• Provide hands-on cloud architecture guidance during planning, sourcing, design, implementation, and operational-readiness stages.
• Review high-level designs, low-level designs, infrastructure designs, deployment architectures, connectivity designs, and disaster-recovery plans prepared by product teams and vendors.
• Assess cloud solutions for compliance with security, scalability, availability, performance, interoperability, data residency, and operational requirements.
• Identify architecture risks, design gaps, technical debt, non-compliance, and required remediation actions.
• Promote reuse of approved cloud services, shared components, deployment patterns, and infrastructure templates.
• Evaluate emerging cloud technologies and provide recommendations on architecture fit and adoption.
• Support cloud architecture quality gates and provide domain-architecture recommendations and approval inputs.

Job description

Define practical cloud architecture standards, patterns, and governance controls while guiding and assuring secure, resilient, and scalable cloud solutions.

Dubai, UAE

Onsite

Role Overview

We are looking for a hands‑on Domain Architect – Cloud to translate enterprise cloud, security, infrastructure, data residency, and operational requirements into practical architecture standards, reference patterns, templates, and governance artefacts.

You will guide product teams and vendors throughout the cloud solution lifecycle, review enterprise‑scale designs, assess architectural compliance, and provide recommendations and approval inputs at defined quality gates.

Key Responsibilities

• Translate enterprise architecture, cloud, security, infrastructure, data residency, 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 covering 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 operational‑readiness stages.
• Review high‑level designs, low‑level designs, infrastructure designs, deployment architectures, connectivity designs, and disaster‑recovery plans prepared by product teams and vendors.
• Assess cloud solutions for compliance with security, scalability, availability, performance, interoperability, data residency, and operational requirements.
• Identify architecture risks, design gaps, technical debt, non‑compliance, and required remediation actions.
• Promote the reuse of approved cloud services, shared components, deployment patterns, and infrastructure templates.
• Evaluate emerging cloud technologies and provide recommendations on architecture fit and adoption.
• Support cloud architecture quality gates and provide domain‑architecture recommendations and approval inputs.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in infrastructure and cloud technologies, including cloud architecture responsibilities.
• Strong hands‑on experience developing cloud standards, reference architectures, approved patterns, templates, and governance artefacts.
• Strong knowledge of cloud landing zones, networking, security, identity and access management, containers, hosting, resilience, disaster recovery, observability, and infrastructure as code.
• Experience reviewing and assuring enterprise‑scale cloud solutions.
• Ability to identify architectural risks, compliance gaps, technical debt, and appropriate remediation measures.
• Experience guiding product teams and vendors through cloud planning, design, implementation, and readiness activities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in government, regulated‑sector, or large‑enterprise environments.