Senior Cloud & Platform Architecture Lead

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 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.