Senior IT Infrastructure & Networks Leader – Hybrid Cloud

Halian | Managed Services, Recruitment Agency & Contract Staffing; Abu Dhabi; Sur place; AED 480 000 - 660 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Medical insurance

Annual leave

Résumé du poste

Halian is seeking an experienced IT Infrastructure & Networks Manager to lead a large-scale enterprise technology environment in Abu Dhabi. The role combines deep technical expertise with strategic management and hands-on delivery during incidents, migrations, and critical projects.

You will own the infrastructure and network architecture across on-premise, cloud, and hybrid environments, manage budgets, and lead vendor negotiations while ensuring security compliance and operational excellence.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience across IT infrastructure, cloud, and enterprise networking environments.
• Proven experience managing infrastructure teams within large enterprise organisations.
• Demonstrated ability to combine strategic leadership with hands-on technical delivery.
• Strong experience managing enterprise infrastructure projects, vendors, and IT operations.
• Experience owning infrastructure roadmaps, budgets, governance frameworks, and operational performance.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to engage senior leadership teams.
• Previous responsibility for mission-critical, enterprise-scale environments.

Responsabilités

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of infrastructure and network engineers.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance across infrastructure, cloud, collaboration, identity, and networking domains.
• Act as the escalation point for major incidents, complex technical challenges, and critical business services.
• Foster a culture of operational excellence, continuous improvement, and technical innovation.
• Own the enterprise infrastructure and network architecture, ensuring scalability, resilience, and operational efficiency.
• Make key architectural decisions across on-premise, cloud, and hybrid environments.
• Develop and maintain technology roadmaps aligned with business and IT strategy.
• Lead infrastructure modernization, cloud adoption, and transformation initiatives.
• Maintain accountability for infrastructure availability, performance, and service quality.
• Oversee the delivery of business-critical IT services supporting corporate users and enterprise applications.
• Ensure robust monitoring, incident management, change management, and capacity planning processes are in place.
• Participate directly in major incidents, migrations, upgrades, and critical changes when required.
• Build and manage infrastructure budgets, including operational expenditure, capital expenditure, and software licensing.
• Lead vendor selection, contract negotiations, and SLA management.
• Challenge and validate technical proposals and delivery plans provided by third-party partners.
• Ensure value for money while maintaining service quality and security standards.
• Establish and maintain infrastructure policies, standards, and governance frameworks.
• Manage infrastructure risk, resilience, backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity capabilities.
• Ensure compliance with corporate security standards and regulatory requirements.
• Support and enhance the organisation's security posture through alignment with security best practices and Microsoft security technologies.

Connaissances

IT infrastructure

Enterprise networking

Microsoft stack

Active Directory

Hybrid Identity

Incident management

Vendor negotiations

Governance frameworks

Cloud migrations

Security best practices

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Hands-on engineering

Outils

SCCM / MECM

Description du poste

Halian is seeking an experienced IT Infrastructure & Networks Manager to lead a large-scale enterprise technology environment in Abu Dhabi. The role combines deep technical expertise with strategic management and hands-on delivery during incidents, migrations, and critical projects.

You will own the infrastructure and network architecture across on-premise, cloud, and hybrid environments, manage budgets, and lead vendor negotiations while ensuring security compliance and operational excellence.