الوظائف الحالية

A leading provider of sovereign cloud, AI infrastructure, and services, delivering transformative technology solutions that empower individuals, enterprises, and nations to unlock the full potential of AI. With a mission to accelerate innovation and help partners achieve ambitious goals, the organization combines sovereign capabilities with scalable, high-performance compute infrastructure, positioning itself at the forefront of AI innovation in the Middle East and beyond.

Job Title: Azure Architecture Lead

Key Responsibilities:

• Understand customers' overall applications portfolio, IT and business priorities, and success measures to design implementation architectures and solutions (Microsoft and 3rd party solutions).
• Architect technical solutions to meet business and IT needs, ensuring technical viability of new projects, large cloud migration initiatives (J2C), and successful deployments, while orchestrating key resources and infusing key infrastructure technologies (e.g., Windows and Linux IaaS, security, networking, etc.), and application development and DevOps technologies (e.g., App Service, containers, serverless, cloud native, etc.) as appropriate.
• Recommend and design solutions for enterprise clients, considering best solution components including cloud native and 3rd party solutions for networking, security, storage, backup, and identity management.
• Leverage DevOps methodologies to automate infrastructure deployments, including infrastructure as code (i.e., Terraform, ARM templates, etc.).
• Develop high-level technical design, low-level technical design, and architecture documents; define inter-dependencies and identify dependencies at various stages of design deployment.
• Deploy and implement cloud solutions based on developed high-level architecture design.
• Attend technical discussion meetings to gather the required information for the high-level technical design specification creation, ensuring client requirements are correctly covered in the provided solution.
• Ensure all solutions exhibit high levels of performance, security, scalability, maintainability, and appropriate reusability and reliability upon deployment, based on cloud adoption framework and other cloud governance best practices.
• Conduct and lead technical workshops with customers, peers, and third-party vendors.
• Guide technical implementation team on the approach and technical functions during project deployment.
• Ensure compliance and update documentation frameworks to support technical delivery, as per standard processes.
• Maintain technical skills and knowledge of market trends and competitive insights; collaborate and share with the technical community.

Required Skills/Qualifications:

• Overall 15+ years of experience in the IT industry and services.
• A minimum of 10+ years of technical delivery and implementation or technical consulting experience.
• Proven experience as an Azure Cloud Architect/Implementation Engineer or in a similar role, with a track record of successfully designing and implementing cloud-based solutions and large-scale cloud migration projects (1000+ VMs).
• Proven experience as a Microsoft Infrastructure Architect/Engineer or in a similar role, with a track record of successfully designing and implementing Microsoft solutions including Active Directory, Exchange, WSUS, ADFS, DNS, DHCP, etc.
• Knowledge in cloud architecture design principles, including scalability, availability, and security.
• Experience with cloud migration strategies and tools, and the ability to assess the feasibility and risks associated with cloud adoption.
• Proven experience with containerization solutions implementation and design including K8S, AKS, EKS, etc.
• Proven experience with infrastructure as code implementation and design including Terraform, ARM, etc.
• Proven experience in large-scale cloud migration projects, including discovery, assessment, and migration for mission-critical applications, using different tools.
• Proven experience in cloud DevOps implementation and design.
• Experience with DR solutions and replication tools including Azure Site Recovery, Carbonite.
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate.
• Identity and access control with experience administering B2B and B2C applications as well as a working knowledge of Azure AD.

Preferred Skills/Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field.
• Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert.
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Network Engineer Associate.
• AWS Certified Solution Architect Professional.
• Enterprise Architecture – TOGAF 9 Certification.
• ITIL V3 Foundation Certificate, preferably ITIL Service Design or Transition Certification.
• HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate.
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA).
• Certification on Active Directory Services and Exchange.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to analyze complex technical requirements.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Relevant certifications, such as Microsoft Certified: Identity and Access Administrator Associate, Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate, Redhat Certified Engineer.
• Knowledge of cloud networking and hybrid connectivity with expertise in BGP and SD-WAN solutions as well as Azure networking services such as ExpressRoute.
• Security and governance with a strong proficiency in defining and modeling security baselines.
• Expert knowledge on virtualization with VMware and Hyper-V.
• Previous experience with OpenStack, cloud management, and cloud broker solutions.
• Plan and design deployment, integrations, and migration of Microsoft Active Directory solutions.
• Plan and design deployment of Microsoft messaging, collaboration, systems management, and unified communication technologies.
• Active Directory Services and Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS).
• Good knowledge of Microsoft SQL Always On technology.
• Good knowledge of identity management solutions.
• Expert in replication technologies; both storage (Nutanix, EMC, others) and host-based replication (DoubleTake, Veeam, Veritas).
• Storage - Intermediate design experience in Fibre Channel/Storage Networking using Cisco and Brocade switches. EMC (VMAX and VNX)/HP (12K, EVA and 3PAR) and NAS design and implementation.
• Backup (Networker, NetBackup, HP Data Protector, Veeam, or Commvault). Expert knowledge on any two.

What Working at Our Company Offers: Join our diverse team of 1100+ employees representing 68 nationalities, fostering an inclusive, innovative, and collaborative environment. We foster a culture grounded in trust, accountability, and high performance. We are united by our values: Grit, where we overcome challenges with resilience and determination; Passion, which drives us to pursue excellence in everything we do; and Impact, as we aim to inspire progress and create meaningful change. Our team members thrive in an environment where each person’s contributions propel us forward, and together, we are committed to achieving extraordinary results.

Halian Group: With over 28 years of experience, we have come to understand that innovation is the only way to provide agile, practical solutions that transform businesses and careers. Our resourcing and smart services help you to realize tomorrow’s potential. Discover the amazing things possible when you bring the right people and the right technologies together.

At Halian, we recognize that diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are essential to building high-performing teams for our clients. We are committed to connecting organizations with top talent from all backgrounds, ensuring that every individual feels valued, respected, and empowered to contribute their unique perspectives. We encourage applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of race, gender, disability, or any other characteristic that makes them unique. By fostering diverse and inclusive workplaces, we help our clients drive innovation, enhance collaboration, and better reflect the communities they serve.

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