Senior Cloud & Infrastructure Architect.

TALENT ONE EMPLOYMENT SERVICES; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 360,000 - 700,000; Full time

Job summary

TALENT ONE EMPLOYMENT SERVICES in Abu Dhabi is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Architect to design and maintain core IT infrastructure across on-premises, cloud, hybrid and edge environments. The role defines standards and roadmaps to ensure scalability, security, and cost efficiency while mentoring engineering teams.

The ideal candidate brings deep cloud, virtualization, and container expertise, with hands-on experience in networks, storage, and automation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS/IT/Engineering or related field.
• AWS/Azure/G42 cloud expertise and certifications.
• 8–12+ years IT infra experience; architect role 3–5 years.
• Hands-on background in systems admin, networking, or virtualization.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end infrastructure solutions across on-prem, cloud, and hybrid.
• Develop reference architectures and roadmaps for compute, storage, networking, virtualization, and containerization.
• Define infra roadmap aligned with business strategy and technology trends.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and drive modernization initiatives; lead cloud migrations and cost optimization.

Skills

Cloud platforms

Virtualization

Containers

Networking

IaC tools

Security architecture

Cost optimization

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s preferred

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

CloudFormation

Bicep

Docker

Kubernetes

VMware

Hyper-V

Job description

TALENT ONE EMPLOYMENT SERVICES | Full time

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates | Posted on 11/03/2026

The Infrastructure Architect is responsible fordesigning, building, and maintaining the organization’s core IT infrastructure,including on-premises, cloud, hybrid, and edge environments. This roledefines the architectural vision, standards, and roadmaps that ensurescalability, reliability, security, and cost efficiency across compute,storage, networking, and virtualization platforms. The ideal candidate combinesdeep technical expertise with strategic thinking, acting as a technical leadwho bridges business requirements and infrastructure solutions while mentoringengineering teams and driving modernization initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science,Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field (master’s preferred).
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect –Professional, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or Google Professional CloudArchitect.
• VMware VCDX/VCAP, Cisco CCIE/CCNP, orequivalent networking certifications.
• TOGAF, Kubernetes (CKA/CKAD), or Hashi CorpTerraform certifications are a plus.

Experience

• 8–12+ years of experience in ITinfrastructure, systems engineering, or cloud architecture, with at least 3–5years in an architect role.
• Proven experience designing large-scale,mission-critical infrastructure in hybrid or multi-cloud environments.
• Hands-on background in systemsadministration, networking, or virtualization prior to architecture roles.

Skills

• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, anddecision-making skills.

TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES

• Deep expertise in cloud platforms (AWS,Azure, G42), virtualization (VMware, Hyper-V, KVM), and containers (Docker,Kubernetes).
• Strong knowledge of networking (SDN, VPC,load balancing, DNS, firewalls, VPN, BGP) and storage (SAN, NAS, objectstorage).
• Proficiency with IaC and automation tools(Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Chef).
• Solid understanding of securityarchitecture, identity management (IAM, AD, SSO), and zero-trust principles.
• Experience with cost modeling, capacityplanning, and vendor management.

Requirements

Key Accountabilities

• Design end-to-end infrastructure solutionsacross on-premises, cloud (AWS, Azure, G42), and hybrid environments.
• Develop reference architectures, standards,and blueprints for compute, storage, networking, virtualization, andcontainerization.
• Define and maintain the infrastructure roadmap aligned with business strategy, growth projections, and technologytrends.
• Evaluate emerging technologies (e.g., IaC,Kubernetes, serverless, edge computing) and recommend adoption whereappropriate.

2. Cloud & Platform Strategy

• Lead cloud migration, multi-cloud, and hybridcloud architecture initiatives.
• Design scalable, highly available, anddisaster‑resilient platforms (IaaS, PaaS, container platforms).
• Optimize cloud spend through right‑sizing,reserved capacity, and architectural efficiency.
• Establish landing zones, network topologies,identity integration, and governance guardrails.

3. Performance, Availability & Resilience

• Define and enforce SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs forcritical infrastructure services.
• Architect high-availability (HA) and disasterrecovery (DR) solutions, including RTO/RPO targets and regular testing.
• Conduct capacity planning and performance tuning to support current and future demand.
• Lead root cause analysis (RCA) for majorinfrastructure incidents and drive architectural improvements.

4. Security & Compliance Integration

• Embed security-by-design principles into allinfrastructure architectures (zero trust, least privilege, segmentation).
• Ensure infrastructure meets regulatory and compliance requirements (e.g., ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR, HIPAA, PCI-DSS).
• Collaborate with Security & Compliance teams on vulnerability management, patching strategy, and audit readiness.
• Champion Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, or Bicep.
• Define monitoring, observability, and loggingstandards (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK).
• Reduce operational toil through automationand self-service platforms.

6. Technical Leadership & Collaboration

• Act as a subject matter expert and escalationpoint for infrastructure engineering teams.
• Mentor engineers and promote best practicesin architecture, documentation, and design reviews.
• Partner with application, data, security, andnetwork teams to ensure end-to-end solution coherence.
• Present architectural proposals and trade-offanalyses to technical and executive stakeholders.
• Evaluate and select infrastructure vendors,platforms, and managed services.
• Negotiate technical requirements and supportlicensing/hardware procurement decisions.
• Manage infrastructure TCO and identify costoptimization opportunities.