Senior Hybrid Cloud & Infrastructure Architect

TalentOne; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 441,000 - 661,000; Full time

Job summary

TalentOne seeks a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Architect to design, build, and maintain the organization’s core IT infrastructure, spanning on‑premises, cloud, hybrid, and edge environments. You will set architectural standards, roadmaps, and governance to ensure scalability, security, and cost efficiency.

Lead multi-cloud initiatives, mentor engineering teams, and collaborate across security, application, and network functions to deliver resilient, automated infrastructure using IaC and modern

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 Cloud Architect.
• VMware VCDX/VCAP, Cisco CCIE/CCNP, or equivalent networking certifications.
• TOGAF, Kubernetes (CKA/CKAD), or HashiCorp Terraform certifications are a plus.
• 8–12+ years of experience in IT infrastructure, systems engineering, or cloud architecture, with at least 3–5 years in an architect role.
• Proven experience designing large-scale, mission-critical infrastructure in hybrid or multi-cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end infrastructure solutions across on-premises, cloud (AWS, Azure, G42), and hybrid environments.
• Develop reference architectures, standards, and blueprints for compute, storage, networking, virtualization, and containerization.
• Define and maintain the infrastructure roadmap aligned with business strategy, growth projections, and technology trends.
• Evaluate emerging technologies (e.g., IaC, Kubernetes, serverless, edge computing) and recommend adoption where appropriate.
• Lead cloud migration, multi-cloud, and hybrid-cloud architecture initiatives.
• Design scalable, highly available, and disaster-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.
• Define and enforce SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs for critical infrastructure services.
• Architect HA and DR solutions with RTO/RPO targets and testing.
• Conduct capacity planning and performance tuning for current and future demand.
• Lead RCA for major infrastructure incidents and drive architectural improvements.
• Embed security-by-design principles (zero trust, least privilege, segmentation).
• Ensure infrastructure meets regulatory and compliance requirements (ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR...).
• Collaborate on vulnerability management, patching strategy, and audit readiness.
• Champion Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, or Bicep.
• Define monitoring, observability, and logging standards (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK).
• Reduce operational toil through automation and self-service platforms.
• Act as SME and escalation point for infrastructure teams; mentor engineers.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Hybrid/multi-cloud

Automation

Security

Cost optimization

Networking

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/IT/Engineering

Master’s preferred

Tools

VMware

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Ansible

Puppet

Chef

CloudFormation

Bicep

Job description

TalentOne seeks a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Architect to design, build, and maintain the organization’s core IT infrastructure, spanning on‑premises, cloud, hybrid, and edge environments. You will set architectural standards, roadmaps, and governance to ensure scalability, security, and cost efficiency.

Lead multi-cloud initiatives, mentor engineering teams, and collaborate across security, application, and network functions to deliver resilient, automated infrastructure using IaC and modern