Infrastructure and Platform Architect
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JCA Associates is seeking an Infrastructure & Platform Architect for an on-site contract role in Abu Dhabi. You will lead the design and engineering of resilient, secure enterprise infrastructure environments, focusing on compute, virtualization, container platforms, networking, and automation.
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Responsibilities
- Design and architect secure enterprise infrastructure platforms across physical and virtualized environments
- Lead integration and operational architecture for container and virtualization platforms
- Define infrastructure segmentation, service isolation, and secure platform communication patterns
- Support the design of resilient infrastructure services including identity, DNS, certificate management, observability, and automation services
- Collaborate with security and network teams to establish hardened infrastructure standards and operational guardrails
- Drive infrastructure as code, automation, and platform standardization initiatives
- Support platform lifecycle management, resilience testing, and operational readiness
- Contribute to reference architectures, engineering standards, and operational procedures
- Work with internal and external stakeholders to evaluate infrastructure technologies and platform capabilities
- Support high availability, disaster recovery, and operational continuity planning
Requirements
- Strong experience with enterprise virtualization and hyperconverged infrastructure platforms
- Strong experience with enterprise container orchestration platforms
- Experience designing secure enterprise infrastructure environments
- Experience with Linux based enterprise platforms
- Familiarity with software defined networking and infrastructure segmentation
- Experience with infrastructure automation and configuration management
- Experience with enterprise identity integration and certificate based authentication
- Familiarity with secure enterprise observability and logging platforms
- Experience with hybrid infrastructure and distributed systems architecture
- 10+ years in enterprise infrastructure engineering or architecture
Full Job Posting
Infrastructure & Platform Architect
- Platform Architect (Infrastructure) is required ASAP by our global client.
- Working on a new project based on site in Abu Dhabi, the successful candidate will be responsible for leading the design and engineering of highly resilient, secure, and isolated enterprise infrastructure environments supporting mission critical digital platforms and services.
- The role will focus on the architecture, integration, and operationalization of modern hybrid infrastructure platforms across physical and virtualized environments, with emphasis on platform resilience, automation, operational integrity, and secure service enablement.
- You will work across compute, virtualization, container platforms, networking, platform security, identity integration, and infrastructure automation to help establish next generation enterprise infrastructure capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Design and architect secure enterprise infrastructure platforms across physical and virtualized environments
- Lead integration and operational architecture for container and virtualization platforms
- Define infrastructure segmentation, service isolation, and secure platform communication patterns
- Support the design of resilient infrastructure services including identity, DNS, certificate management, observability, and automation services
- Collaborate with security and network teams to establish hardened infrastructure standards and operational guardrails
- Drive infrastructure as code, automation, and platform standardization initiatives
- Support platform lifecycle management, resilience testing, and operational readiness
- Contribute to reference architectures, engineering standards, and operational procedures
- Work with internal and external stakeholders to evaluate infrastructure technologies and platform capabilities
- Support high availability, disaster recovery, and operational continuity planning
Essential previous experience should include
- Strong experience with enterprise virtualization and hyperconverged infrastructure platforms
- Strong experience with enterprise container orchestration platforms
- Experience designing secure enterprise infrastructure environments
- Experience with Linux based enterprise platforms
- Familiarity with software defined networking and infrastructure segmentation
- Experience with infrastructure automation and configuration management
- Experience with enterprise identity integration and certificate based authentication
- Familiarity with secure enterprise observability and logging platforms
- Experience with hybrid infrastructure and distributed systems architecture
- 10+ years in enterprise infrastructure engineering or architecture
Desirable skills include exposure to technologies such as
- Red Hat OpenShift
- Nutanix
- Kubernetes
- HashiCorp Vault
- VMware vSphere
- Ansible
- Terraform
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