Cloud / Infrastructure Specialist (Hybrid Cloud Strategy & Architecture Advisory)
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About the Role
A government entity in Sharjah seeks a senior hybrid cloud specialist to assess current infrastructure, define target-state architecture, and provide strategic recommendations. This advisory role requires 12+ years of experience in cloud architecture and enterprise infrastructure.
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Responsibilities
- Assess existing infrastructure, cloud platforms, and hosting environments across on premises, private cloud, and public cloud ecosystems
- Review current cloud service offerings, operating models, platforms, and technologies
- Identify strengths, risks, gaps, and opportunities for improvement aligned with industry best practices
- Evaluate infrastructure readiness and cloud maturity across the organization
- Define target state hybrid cloud architecture and operating model
- Assess and recommend appropriate public cloud, private cloud, and hybrid cloud solutions
- Develop a strategic cloud transformation roadmap aligned with business objectives
- Establish architecture principles, governance frameworks, and cloud adoption guidelines
- Define workload hosting strategies, scalability models, resiliency approaches, and service design principles
- Provide recommendations around build versus adopt decisions and technology selection
- Analyze application and infrastructure workloads across environments
- Establish workload classification and profiling methodologies
Requirements
- 12+ years of experience in Infrastructure Architecture, Cloud Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, or Hybrid Cloud Consulting
- Proven experience assessing and designing hybrid cloud environments across on premises, private cloud, and public cloud platforms
- Strong understanding of enterprise infrastructure, data centers, virtualization, networking, security, and cloud technologies
- Experience developing cloud strategy, cloud operating models, and cloud transformation roadmaps
- Strong knowledge of public cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Experience with private cloud platforms, virtualization technologies, and enterprise infrastructure environments
- Experience conducting cloud assessments, infrastructure reviews, and architecture advisory engagements
- Strong stakeholder management and executive communication skills
- Ability to translate technical concepts into business focused recommendations
- Consulting background or experience delivering strategic advisory engagements is highly preferred
- Government sector experience is highly preferred
- UAE/GCC experience is a strong advantage
Full Job Posting
General Description
- Join a leading government entity in Sharjah, UAE that is driving large scale digital transformation and modernization initiatives across its technology landscape.
- We are looking for a highly experienced Hybrid Cloud / Infrastructure Specialist with strong expertise across on premises infrastructure, private cloud, public cloud, and enterprise cloud strategy.
- This is a business facing and advisory focused role rather than a hands on implementation position.
- This opportunity is ideal for senior cloud architects, infrastructure strategists, and hybrid cloud consultants who have successfully led cloud transformation and infrastructure advisory engagements within large enterprises, government organizations, or consulting environments.
- This is a contract / freelance engagement with an immediate hiring timeline.
Key Responsibilities
- Assess existing infrastructure, cloud platforms, and hosting environments across on premises, private cloud, and public cloud ecosystems
- Review current cloud service offerings, operating models, platforms, and technologies
- Identify strengths, risks, gaps, and opportunities for improvement aligned with industry best practices
- Evaluate infrastructure readiness and cloud maturity across the organization
- Define target state hybrid cloud architecture and operating model
- Assess and recommend appropriate public cloud, private cloud, and hybrid cloud solutions
- Develop a strategic cloud transformation roadmap aligned with business objectives
- Establish architecture principles, governance frameworks, and cloud adoption guidelines
- Define workload hosting strategies, scalability models, resiliency approaches, and service design principles
- Provide recommendations around build versus adopt decisions and technology selection
- Analyze application and infrastructure workloads across environments
- Establish workload classification and profiling methodologies
Workload Assessment & Cloud Placement
- Define decision frameworks for workload placement across on premises, private cloud, and public cloud environments
- Recommend automation approaches for workload assessment and migration planning
AI Infrastructure Strategy
- Assess current AI infrastructure capabilities and organizational readiness
- Define AI infrastructure architecture aligned with hybrid cloud objectives
- Recommend hosting strategies for AI, machine learning, and data intensive workloads
- Develop frameworks for assessing AI workload requirements and optimal deployment locations
- Provide strategic recommendations for future AI platform adoption and scalability
Stakeholder Engagement & Advisory
- Engage directly with executive stakeholders, cloud leadership teams, and infrastructure management
- Facilitate workshops, architecture discussions, and strategic planning sessions
- Present findings, recommendations, and future state architecture to senior leadership
- Produce architecture artifacts, assessment reports, roadmap documents, and executive presentations
Required Experience
- 12+ years of experience in Infrastructure Architecture, Cloud Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, or Hybrid Cloud Consulting
- Proven experience assessing and designing hybrid cloud environments across on premises, private cloud, and public cloud platforms
- Strong understanding of enterprise infrastructure, data centers, virtualization, networking, security, and cloud technologies
- Experience developing cloud strategy, cloud operating models, and cloud transformation roadmaps
- Strong knowledge of public cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Experience with private cloud platforms, virtualization technologies, and enterprise infrastructure environments
- Experience conducting cloud assessments, infrastructure reviews, and architecture advisory engagements
- Strong stakeholder management and executive communication skills
- Ability to translate technical concepts into business focused recommendations
- Consulting background or experience delivering strategic advisory engagements is highly preferred
- Government sector experience is highly preferred
- UAE/GCC experience is a strong advantage
Work Setup
- Onsite – Sharjah, UAE
- Contract / Freelance Engagement
- Immediate Hiring Timeline
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