Cloud Architect

Posted 21 March 2024
Salary 35-40K AED p/m and benefits
LocationAbu Dhabi
Job type Contract
Discipline Software Engineering
Contact NameDylan Jayne

Job description

We’re currently partnered with a regional leader within the payment space.

Dedicated to serving clients, they offer an advanced payments platform that leverages data monetization, employing cutting-edge technology to enhance user experiences and operational efficiency.

The brand embodies dynamism and promise, poised to revolutionize the realm of payments by turning them into opportunities.

With its vast expertise and strategic alliances, the brand draws in global partners, setting a fresh standard for innovation and outstanding service in the payments sector.

In the role of Cloud Architect, you'll lead the development and execution of the company's cloud computing strategy. This encompasses devising cloud adoption strategies, managing cloud resources, and ensuring effective monitoring.

Your responsibilities will extend to planning and implementing architectures across various cloud environments, including public, private, and hybrid setups. Furthermore, you'll serve as a trusted advisor to the organization, staying abreast of emerging trends and challenges in the field. Your efforts will be pivotal in aligning enterprise objectives with cloud adoption, ensuring adherence to best practices in security, governance, monitoring, and risk management.

Responsibilities:

•Champion and articulate a strategic vision for cloud architecture, encompassing both internal and external platforms, tools, and systems.

•Exhibit expertise in cloud architecture and its implementation aspects, covering areas such as operating systems, multi-tenancy, virtualization, orchestration, and elastic scalability.

•Proficiently navigate DevOps toolchains and processes, demonstrating a deep understanding of their functionalities and applications.

•Serve as a trusted Subject Matter Expert within the organization on their end-to-end cloud architecture, encompassing platforms like Azure and potential future providers, as well as aspects of networking, provisioning, and management.

•Curate a repository of deployable and well-documented cloud design patterns, tailored to the application portfolio, to serve as foundational blueprints for deploying services onto cloud environments.

Key Skills:

•Microsoft Azure Expert

•Possess a Bachelor's degree in computer science, systems analysis, or a related field, or demonstrate equivalent practical experience.

•Accumulate over 10 years of comprehensive experience spanning at least two distinct IT domains, which may include technical architecture, network management, application development, middleware, database management, or operations.

•Hold relevant industry certifications such as Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services (AWS).

•Demonstrate a minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience in supporting cloud solutions.

•Exhibit a strong understanding of cloud networking principles, encompassing VPCs, Security Groups, and Load Balancers.

•Showcase expertise and familiarity with DevOps practices, automation (CI/CD), and Infrastructure as Code methodologies.

If the above sounds just like you, apply today!