Technology / Infrastructure Architect at JODAYN

Jodayn; Riyadh; In loco; SAR 360.000 - 540.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Jodayn in Saudi Arabia seeks a senior Infrastructure Architect to lead the development and maintenance of the enterprise technology and infrastructure architecture in line with business strategy. You will assess current infrastructure landscapes and define target-state roadmaps for on‑premises, private cloud, public cloud, and hybrid environments.

The role requires 10+ years in infrastructure engineering with hands-on experience in architecture, data centers, and large modernization programs.

Competenze

• Minimum 10 years in infrastructure engineering or related tech.
• At least 5 years in Infrastructure/Technology Architecture or senior design.
• Experience designing complex enterprise infrastructure environments.
• Experience with data centers, compute, storage, virtualization, networking, cloud, and hybrid architectures.
• Experience supporting large-scale modernization, migration, transformation, or consolidation programs.

Mansioni

• Develop and maintain the enterprise technology and infrastructure architecture aligned with business strategy.
• Assess the current infrastructure landscape across compute, storage, networks, virtualization, and hosting.
• Define target-state technology and infrastructure architecture and roadmaps.
• Collaborate with cloud, security, application, integration, data, and solution architects to ensure end-to-end coherence.
• Support infrastructure platform selection, vendor evaluation, technical assessments, and solution reviews.
• Participate in architecture governance, design reviews, and Architecture Review Boards.
• Define monitoring, observability, capacity management, and operational architecture requirements.

Conoscenze

Enterprise Technology Architecture

Infrastructure Architecture

Compute and server architecture

Storage architecture

Network architecture

Cloud and hybrid infrastructure

High availability and resilience

Disaster recovery

Architecture governance

Vendor assessment

Formazione

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / IT / CE

Strumenti

VMware

Hyper-V

Docker

Kubernetes

Azure

AWS

Google Cloud

Bizzdesign

Descrizione del lavoro

This Full time on site position offers great opportunities for career growth.

Requirements

• Develop and maintain the enterprise technology and infrastructure architecture in alignment with business strategy and enterprise architecture direction.
• Assess the current infrastructure landscape, including compute, storage, networks, virtualization, operating systems, hosting, and shared technology services.
• Define target‑state technology and infrastructure architecture and transition roadmaps.
• Develop technology standards, reference architectures, principles, patterns, and approved technology portfolios.
• Design scalable, resilient, secure, and highly available infrastructure architectures.
• Define architecture for on‑premises, private cloud, public cloud, and hybrid infrastructure environments.
• Assess infrastructure capacity, utilization, performance, availability, and lifecycle status.
• Identify technology obsolescence, end‑of‑life risks, technical debt, and modernization opportunities.
• Define architecture requirements for backup, disaster recovery, business continuity, high availability, and fault tolerance.
• Support network architecture including LAN, WAN, SD‑WAN, data center networking, connectivity, and segmentation.
• Support server, storage, virtualization, container, and platform architecture decisions.
• Collaborate with cloud, security, application, integration, data, and solution architects to ensure coherent end‑to‑end architecture.
• Support infrastructure platform selection, vendor evaluation, technical assessments, and solution reviews.
• Participate in architecture governance, technical design reviews, and Architecture Review Boards.
• Define infrastructure monitoring, observability, capacity management, and operational architecture requirements.
• Support data center modernization, consolidation, migration, and infrastructure transformation programs.
• Identify infrastructure architecture risks, constraints, dependencies, and mitigation actions.

Required Experience

Minimum 10 years of experience in infrastructure engineering, systems engineering, network engineering, cloud, data center, or related technology disciplines.

• At least 5 years of hands‑on experience in Infrastructure Architecture, Technology Architecture, or a comparable senior design role.
• Demonstrated experience designing complex enterprise infrastructure environments.
• Experience with data centers, compute, storage, virtualization, networking, cloud, and hybrid architectures.
• Experience supporting large‑scale infrastructure modernization, migration, transformation, or consolidation programs.
• Strong experience working with technology vendors, infrastructure teams, security teams, and senior stakeholders.

Core Competencies

• Enterprise Technology Architecture
• Infrastructure Architecture
• Compute and server architecture
• Storage architecture
• Network architecture
• Virtualization and container platforms
• Cloud and hybrid infrastructure
• Data center architecture
• High availability and resilience
• Disaster recovery and business continuity architecture
• Technology lifecycle and obsolescence management
• Infrastructure security and segmentation
• Architecture governance and assurance
• Technology evaluation and vendor assessment

Preferred Frameworks, Standards & Methods

TOGAF, ArchiMate, ITIL, COBIT, Cloud architecture frameworks and well‑architected principles, Infrastructure and data center architecture best practices, High availability, disaster recovery, and resilience design principles, DevOps and Infrastructure‑as‑Code concepts.

Preferred Tools & Technology Exposure

• Enterprise architecture tools such as Bizzdesign, Sparx Enterprise Architect, Orbus/iServer, ARIS, or similar platforms.
• Virtualization technologies such as VMware, Hyper‑V, or equivalent platforms.
• Container and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud.
• Enterprise server, storage, backup, and data center technologies.
• Networking and security technologies across enterprise and data center environments.
• Infrastructure monitoring and observability platforms.

Preferred Qualifications & Certifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, Network Engineering, or a related discipline.

• TOGAF certification is highly desirable.
• Cloud architecture certifications are highly desirable.
• Relevant certifications in networking, virtualization, infrastructure, data center, or platform technologies are advantageous.

Personal Attributes

Strong analytical and systems‑thinking capability.

Ability to design pragmatic technology architectures balancing resilience, performance, security, scalability, and cost.

Strong communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.

Ability to work across multiple technology towers and architecture domains.

Strong attention to infrastructure quality, standards, and operational practicality.

Consulting mindset with the ability to support complex transformation programs.