Global Infrastructure & IT Operations Leader

Finance House; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 480,000 - 720,000; Full time

Job summary

Finance House is seeking a Senior Manager – Infrastructure & IT Operations to lead strategy, delivery, operation, security and continuous improvement of the shared technology infrastructure across the group. The role covers cloud and on‑premises environments, IAM, security, DevSecOps, SRE and automated platforms to ensure 24x7 resilience.

You will oversee IT Operations, service desk, EUC, asset management and incident/change processes, while driving cost controls, SLAs and regulatory compliance

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field.
• Cloud certification at architect/professional level (Microsoft Azure and/or AWS).
• ITIL certification; SRE, DevOps, Kubernetes or security certifications (e.g., CKA, CISSP, CISM) are strong advantages.

Responsibilities

• Own and manage the Group’s shared technology infrastructure end-to-end, including compute, storage, networking, databases, cloud services and data centre environments.
• Design, implement and continuously enhance Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) using Terraform, Bicep/ARM or equivalent technologies as the standard infrastructure delivery model.
• Build and operate robust DevOps/DevSecOps and CI/CD pipelines, enabling development and product teams to securely deploy applications and infrastructure while embedding cybersecurity, compliance, governance and cost controls throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Drive adoption of AI-assisted engineering and AIOps, including AI coding assistants, agentic automation, intelligent monitoring and automated remediation.
• Own and manage relational and non-relational database platforms, ensuring standards for architecture, security, performance, scalability and disaster resilience.

Skills

Cloud architecture

SRE

DevSecOps

Infrastructure automation

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Cloud certification (Azure/AWS)

ITIL certification

Tools

Terraform

Bicep/ARM

CI/CD pipelines

Azure

AWS

Kubernetes

Job description

Finance House is seeking a Senior Manager – Infrastructure & IT Operations to lead strategy, delivery, operation, security and continuous improvement of the shared technology infrastructure across the group. The role covers cloud and on‑premises environments, IAM, security, DevSecOps, SRE and automated platforms to ensure 24x7 resilience.

You will oversee IT Operations, service desk, EUC, asset management and incident/change processes, while driving cost controls, SLAs and regulatory compliance