Head of Cloud Infrastructure & Platform Engineering

Jex Recruitment | Connecting top talent with leading companies; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 500,000 - 700,000; Full time

Job summary

Jex Recruitment is partnering with a leading technology organisation to appoint a Head of Infrastructure in the Abu Dhabi region. You will lead the design, evolution and operation of a modern, cloud-native infrastructure estate supporting large-scale, business-critical platforms.

This hands-on leadership role requires building infrastructure platforms from the ground up, defining strategy, and guiding an engineering team to ensure security, scalability, resilience and rapid innovation.

Qualifications

• Experience leading infrastructure or platform engineering functions in technology-driven organisations.
• Ability to build and operate an end-to-end cloud platform from inception to production at scale.
• Strong expertise in public cloud, Kubernetes, containers and cloud-native architectures.
• Deep knowledge of DevOps practices including CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, automation and configuration management.
• Proven track record leading SRE, platform reliability or operational excellence initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the infrastructure strategy across cloud, networking, compute and platform services.
• Build, lead and mentor a high-performing infrastructure engineering team.
• Design highly available, secure and scalable environments for mission-critical applications.
• Drive infrastructure automation using IaC and modern DevOps practices.
• Embed security across all layers and ensure governance and resilience.
• Own observability, reliability, disaster recovery and operational excellence.
• Collaborate with software engineering and architecture teams to enable rapid, secure software delivery.

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Jex Recruitment is partnering with a leading technology organisation to appoint a Head of Infrastructure in the Abu Dhabi region. You will lead the design, evolution and operation of a modern, cloud-native infrastructure estate supporting large-scale, business-critical platforms.

This hands-on leadership role requires building infrastructure platforms from the ground up, defining strategy, and guiding an engineering team to ensure security, scalability, resilience and rapid innovation.