Senior Cloud Infra Architect - OpenStack, OpenShift & AI

Halian; Dubai; On-site; AED 350,000 - 580,000; Full time

Job summary

Halian is hiring a Resident Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure & AI in Dubai to design, integrate and optimize cloud platforms (OpenStack, OpenShift) and AI/GPU infrastructure. You will lead architecture design, performance and security, collaborating with customers and internal teams on complex infra challenges.

The role requires deep cloud, data centre networking and automation expertise, with a focus on scalable, highly available solutions and successful delivery across multi-project

Qualifications

• Must have 10+ years of experience within cloud infrastructure, data centre, or enterprise infrastructure engineering environments.
• Strong hands-on experience with OpenStack architecture, deployment, and administration.
• Strong experience with Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes platforms.
• Deep understanding of server, storage, virtualization, and cloud infrastructure technologies.
• Strong knowledge of data centre networking and network virtualization.
• Experience designing and troubleshooting large-scale private cloud environments.
• Proven experience creating HLDs, LLDs, architecture documentation, and technical proposals.
• Strong understanding of high availability, disaster recovery, scalability, and capacity planning.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to engage with customer stakeholders.
• Experience with AI/GPU infrastructure, Ceph, automation tools, or enterprise storage technologies would be advantageous.
• Relevant certifications across Red Hat, OpenShift, Kubernetes, OpenStack, Cloud, or Infrastructure technologies are highly desirable.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop end-to-end cloud infrastructure solutions covering compute, storage, networking, virtualization, containerization, and orchestration.
• Analyse existing infrastructure and recommend architecture improvements, modernization initiatives, and capacity expansion strategies.
• Develop HLDs, LLDs, architecture diagrams, BoQs, and technical specifications.
• Ensure infrastructure designs meet scalability, availability, performance, and security requirements.
• Design, deploy, integrate, and troubleshoot OpenStack private cloud environments.
• Support technologies including KVM, Ceph, OpenStack services, and network virtualization platforms.
• Perform infrastructure sizing, resource optimisation, and capacity planning activities.
• Support cloud expansion, migration, upgrade, and integration projects.
• Design and implement enterprise OpenShift container platforms.
• Architect and support OpenShift clusters including compute, networking, storage, and control-plane components.
• Integrate OpenShift with enterprise monitoring, security, storage, and identity solutions.
• Manage cluster lifecycle activities including upgrades, expansion, troubleshooting, and optimisation.
• Design and validate data centre networking architectures supporting cloud environments.
• Support technologies including Leaf-Spine, VXLAN, EVPN, BGP, MLAG, routing, and switching.
• Design storage solutions for virtualization, containerised workloads, and AI platforms.
• Support AI and GPU infrastructure requirements, including NVIDIA technologies and high-performance computing environments.
• Design and integrate cloud orchestration and automation solutions.
• Support automation using Ansible, Terraform, Kubernetes Operators, APIs, and infrastructure-as-code methodologies.
• Troubleshoot complex issues across cloud, networking, storage, and virtualization layers.
• Work closely with customer stakeholders to ensure successful delivery and ongoing optimisation of cloud environments.

Skills

OpenStack architecture

Kubernetes platforms

Red Hat OpenShift

Cloud infrastructure

Data centre networking

AI/GPU infrastructure

Architecture documentation

Automation tools

Customer engagement

Networking troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Tools

OpenStack

KVM

Ceph

Ansible

Terraform

Job description

Halian is hiring a Resident Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure & AI in Dubai to design, integrate and optimize cloud platforms (OpenStack, OpenShift) and AI/GPU infrastructure. You will lead architecture design, performance and security, collaborating with customers and internal teams on complex infra challenges.

The role requires deep cloud, data centre networking and automation expertise, with a focus on scalable, highly available solutions and successful delivery across multi-project