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Cloud Architect

Menschen Consulting Pvt. Ltd.
Sharjah, UAE
Full Time
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2 weeks ago
AzureAWSOracle OCICloud ArchitectureCloud SecurityCloud Networking
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Position Summary

  • The Cloud Architect is responsible for designing, governing, and evolving SDD’s multi cloud architecture across Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
  • The role ensures cloud platforms are secure, scalable, cost efficient, resilient, and compliant with government and enterprise standards while supporting diverse workloads such as IaaS, PaaS, container platforms, databases, DR, and digital services.
  • This is a highly technical role requiring strong hands on experience, deep architectural thinking, and the ability to guide engineering teams and senior stakeholders through complex cloud decisions.

Core Responsibilities

  • Design and maintain reference architectures for Azure, AWS, and Oracle OCI, including hybrid and multi cloud connectivity, sovereign cloud and data residency models.
  • Define cloud adoption patterns for IaaS & PaaS workloads, container platforms (AKS, EKS, OKE), database services (Azure SQL, RDS, Autonomous DB, Exadata), DR and business continuity.
  • Ensure consistency and interoperability across cloud providers.
  • Architect and govern cloud Landing Zones for identity & access management, network segmentation, security baselines, logging and monitoring, cost management & tagging.
  • Implement enterprise standards for account/subscription structures, network hubs & spokes, shared services, multi tenant isolation.
  • Design secure connectivity: site to site VPN, client VPN, ExpressRoute / Direct Connect / FastConnect, inter cloud connectivity.
  • Define cloud network architectures: VPC/VNet design, subnetting and routing, load balancing, DNS and traffic management.
  • Define and enforce cloud security architecture: IAM, RBAC, least privilege, encryption at rest and in transit, key management (KMS, HSM), secure network segmentation, Zero Trust principles.
  • Ensure compliance with government security regulations, ISO 27001 / NIST, Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) guidance.
  • Collaborate with security teams on threat models and controls.
  • Architect cloud native platforms including AKS, EKS, OKE, serverless (Azure Functions, Lambda), API gateways and integration services.
  • Define standards for CI/CD integration, DevSecOps pipelines, observability and monitoring.

Required Experience

  • 10–15 years of IT experience, with 7+ years in cloud architecture roles.
  • Strong hands on experience across Azure (core requirement), AWS (core requirement), and Oracle OCI (core requirement).
  • Proven experience designing and operating enterprise scale, multi cloud environments.
  • Experience in government, regulated, or large enterprise environments is highly preferred.

Skills & Competencies

  • Deep expertise in Azure (Networking, Identity, PaaS, Security, DR), AWS (VPC, IAM, EC2, RDS, EKS, Security), OCI (VCN, IAM, Autonomous DB, Exadata, FastConnect).
  • Strong understanding of cloud networking & security, hybrid connectivity, containers and orchestration, cloud native design patterns.
  • Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
  • Ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly.
  • Strong documentation and presentation skills.
  • Leadership mindset with collaborative approach.

Preferred Certifications

  • Azure Solutions Architect Expert
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
  • Oracle OCI Architect Professional
  • CCSP / CISSP (advantage)
  • ITIL v4 Foundation (advantage)

Key Deliverables

  • Approved multi cloud reference architectures.
  • Secure and standardized landing zones.
  • Documented cloud standards and governance models.
  • Resilient and compliant cloud platforms.
  • Optimized cloud architectures aligned with FinOps.
  • Technical guidance for cloud migrations and modernization.

KPIs

  • Architectural compliance across cloud environments.
  • Cloud platform stability and scalability.
  • Reduction in security and design risks.
  • Adoption of standardized architectures.
  • Cost optimization achieved through design decisions.
  • Stakeholder satisfaction with architectural guidance.

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