Senior Infrastructure Architect

We're Hiring: Senior Infrastructure Architect

Location: United Arab Emirates (Remote)

Employment Type: Full-Time

Experience Level: Senior

Work Arrangement: Fully Remote

About Us

We are a globally focused organization committed to building secure, scalable, resilient, and high-performing technology environments across diverse markets.

Our Technology, Engineering, Security, Cloud, Data, and Operations teams collaborate to design and operate modern infrastructure platforms that support critical applications, digital services, business operations, and long-term technology transformation.

The Role

We are seeking an experienced Senior Infrastructure Architect to lead infrastructure architecture strategy, platform design, technology standards, cloud and hybrid infrastructure, network and compute architecture, resilience, security, and infrastructure modernization.

The ideal candidate will provide senior technical leadership across complex infrastructure environments, translating business and application requirements into scalable architecture solutions while balancing performance, availability, security, cost, operational supportability, and long-term technology strategy.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain enterprise infrastructure architecture strategies aligned with business and technology objectives.
• Define current-state and target-state infrastructure architectures across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments.
• Establish infrastructure architecture principles, standards, patterns, reference architectures, and technology guidelines.
• Design scalable, resilient, secure, and highly available infrastructure platforms.
• Lead infrastructure architecture for enterprise applications, digital platforms, data services, and critical business systems.
• Evaluate infrastructure requirements based on application workloads, performance, availability, security, scalability, and business continuity needs.
• Design compute, storage, network, virtualization, cloud, backup, disaster-recovery, and platform architectures.
• Develop cloud infrastructure strategies across public, private, and hybrid cloud environments.
• Evaluate and optimize cloud architectures across services such as compute, storage, networking, containers, databases, and managed platforms.
• Define cloud adoption, migration, modernization, and infrastructure transformation roadmaps.
• Lead infrastructure assessments and identify technical debt, capacity constraints, security gaps, and modernization opportunities.
• Develop infrastructure reference models and reusable architecture patterns for engineering and operations teams.
• Design network architectures covering connectivity, routing, segmentation, load balancing, firewalls, DNS, VPN, SD-WAN, and remote access.
• Define data-center and on-premises infrastructure architectures where required.
• Design virtualization and container infrastructure supporting scalable application environments.
• Evaluate container orchestration, Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, and platform engineering requirements.
• Establish infrastructure standards for operating systems, compute platforms, storage, networking, virtualization, and cloud services.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture, Application Architecture, Security Architecture, Data Architecture, and Solution Architecture teams.
• Translate application and business requirements into infrastructure architecture specifications.
• Review solution designs and ensure infrastructure dependencies are clearly defined.
• Assess architecture proposals and provide technical recommendations to engineering and project teams.
• Lead architecture reviews, design workshops, technical evaluations, and infrastructure decision-making forums.
• Develop architecture diagrams, technical specifications, decision records, capacity models, and infrastructure documentation.
• Define infrastructure capacity, performance, availability, scalability, and resilience requirements.
• Conduct capacity planning and forecast infrastructure requirements based on business growth and technology demand.
• Design high-availability architectures that minimize service disruption and single points of failure.
• Develop disaster-recovery and business-continuity infrastructure architectures.
• Define recovery time objectives, recovery point objectives, redundancy models, failover strategies, and recovery procedures.
• Collaborate with Cybersecurity teams to integrate security controls into infrastructure architecture.
• Design network segmentation, identity integration, privileged access, encryption, endpoint protection, and infrastructure security controls.
• Ensure infrastructure architectures support security, privacy, compliance, and regulatory requirements.
• Evaluate infrastructure risks and recommend appropriate mitigation strategies.
• Establish infrastructure observability, monitoring, logging, alerting, and performance-management requirements.
• Define operational requirements for infrastructure availability, incident management, patching, maintenance, and lifecycle management.
• Evaluate infrastructure monitoring and management platforms and recommend appropriate solutions.
• Support infrastructure automation through infrastructure-as-code, configuration management, orchestration, and automated provisioning.
• Promote DevOps, platform engineering, CI/CD, and self-service infrastructure practices where appropriate.
• Evaluate automation opportunities that improve infrastructure deployment, consistency, reliability, and operational efficiency.
• Develop infrastructure lifecycle strategies covering technology selection, deployment, upgrades, maintenance, replacement, and retirement.
• Evaluate emerging technologies including cloud-native platforms, edge computing, serverless infrastructure, AI infrastructure, software-defined networking, and advanced automation.
• Assess infrastructure technology vendors, managed-service providers, cloud providers, and strategic technology partners.
• Define technical requirements, evaluation criteria, architecture standards, and service expectations for infrastructure suppliers.
• Participate in technology procurement, RFPs, technical evaluations, proof-of-concept initiatives, and vendor selection.
• Review vendor architecture proposals and ensure solutions meet organizational standards.
• Monitor infrastructure-related technical debt and establish remediation roadmaps.
• Support infrastructure migration, consolidation, data-center transformation, and technology modernization programs.
• Develop migration strategies that minimize business disruption and operational risk.
• Provide technical leadership during major infrastructure implementations, migrations, upgrades, and production transitions.
• Support incident investigations and provide architectural guidance for recurring infrastructure failures.
• Conduct root-cause analysis for significant infrastructure incidents and recommend long-term corrective actions.
• Establish infrastructure resilience and availability standards for critical systems.
• Support technology risk assessments, architecture audits, compliance reviews, and internal control assessments.
• Maintain architecture repositories, technology inventories, infrastructure standards, and technical documentation.
• Develop infrastructure roadmaps and communicate priorities, dependencies, risks, and investment requirements to senior leadership.
• Provide technical mentoring and guidance to infrastructure engineers, cloud engineers, DevOps teams, and technical architects.
• Promote knowledge sharing, architecture governance, engineering best practices, and continuous improvement.
• Provide management with regular reporting on infrastructure architecture, modernization initiatives, technology risks, capacity, resilience, and strategic opportunities.

Key Performance Indicators

• Infrastructure availability
• Platform uptime
• Critical infrastructure incident rate
• Infrastructure architecture compliance
• Architecture review completion
• Infrastructure modernization progress
• Cloud adoption progress
• Cloud migration completion
• Infrastructure scalability
• Capacity utilization
• Capacity-planning accuracy
• Infrastructure performance
• Network availability
• Network latency
• Compute utilization
• Storage utilization
• Infrastructure provisioning time
• Automated provisioning coverage
• Infrastructure-as-code adoption
• Configuration compliance
• Infrastructure security compliance
• Vulnerability remediation performance
• Patch compliance
• Disaster-recovery readiness
• Recovery time objective achievement
• Recovery point objective achievement
• Disaster-recovery test success rate
• Backup success rate
• Backup recovery performance
• High-availability compliance
• Single-point-of-failure reduction
• Infrastructure incident resolution time
• Mean time to recovery
• Recurring incident reduction
• Infrastructure technical-debt reduction
• Cloud cost efficiency
• Infrastructure total-cost-of-ownership optimization
• Vendor SLA performance
• Architecture decision turnaround time
• Infrastructure project delivery performance
• Migration success rate
• Production deployment stability
• Monitoring and observability coverage
• Infrastructure automation coverage
• Stakeholder satisfaction
• Architecture standards adoption

Ideal Candidate

The successful candidate should have strong experience in infrastructure architecture, cloud architecture, enterprise infrastructure, systems architecture, network architecture, platform engineering, or technology infrastructure, preferably within a complex, multinational, technology-driven, or highly regulated environment.

The candidate should demonstrate:

• Strong understanding of enterprise infrastructure architecture and technology strategy.
• Proven experience designing complex infrastructure environments across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid platforms.
• Strong knowledge of compute, storage, networking, virtualization, cloud platforms, and operating systems.
• Experience designing highly available, scalable, resilient, and secure infrastructure architectures.
• Strong understanding of cloud architecture and cloud migration strategies.
• Experience with major cloud platforms such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud.