Platform / Cloud Architect

JOB DESCRIPTION

The Platform / Cloud Architect designs and governs the core cloud-agnostic platform foundations for TASMU Platform 2.0, ensuring consistent deployment, security, connectivity, and operational standards across multiple vendor-delivered capabilities. The role defines the target platform architecture across Azure (existing TASMU 1.0) and additional clouds where required, enabling standardized landing zones, Kubernetes runtime patterns, infrastructure-as-code, and shared platform services (identity, observability, logging, CI/CD, networking). The architect provides technical leadership for platform modernization, ensures design compliance through architecture reviews, and drives platform reliability, scalability, and cost governance from build through operations

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Define and maintain TASMU 2.0 platform reference architecture (cloud-agnostic runtime, shared services, control plane).
• Design and govern landing zones, subscriptions/projects structure, network hub/spoke, DNS, routing, and private connectivity patterns.
• Establish standardized Kubernetes architecture (AKS/GKE/other), cluster baseline, node pool strategy, GPU/TPU readiness, and autoscaling.
• Define IaC/GitOps standards (Terraform/Bicep/Helm, pipelines, drift control, environment promotion).
• Own platform-level security-by-design controls (identity integration, secrets/keys, WAF, segmentation, policy-as-code).
• Specify observability and operations foundations (OTel, logs/metrics/traces, alerting, ITSM integration, SLOs).
• Drive resiliency architecture (HA, backup/restore, DR strategy, RPO/RTO targets, runbooks and testing).
• Establish platform service catalog foundations and “golden paths” for onboarding smart solutions and vendors.
• Partner with FinOps to implement cost governance (tagging, budgets, anomaly detection, chargeback/showback).
• Provide technical assurance for vendor platform deliverables and support production readiness reviews/go-live gates.

SKILLS & ABILITIES

• Deep expertise in cloud platform architecture (networking, compute, storage, security, and operations).
• Strong Kubernetes platform engineering skills (cluster design, security, autoscaling, ingress/egress, service mesh concepts).
• Ability to create pragmatic cloud-agnostic standards while leveraging managed services appropriately.
• Proven experience implementing IaC/GitOps and platform governance (policies, baselines, compliance).
• Strong troubleshooting mindset for cross-vendor, cross-environment platform issues and reliability improvements.

POTENTIAL BACKGROUND

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, a Master’s degree is highly preferred.
• 8+ years in cloud/platform engineering or architecture roles; government/telco/critical infrastructure preferred.
• Hands-on delivery experience with Azure plus at least one other cloud (GCP/AWS) and hybrid connectivity patterns.
• Experience building secure landing zones, enterprise networks, and multi-environment delivery pipelines.
• Experience running production platforms with SRE/ITIL-aligned practices (incident/change/problem management).
• Relevant certifications preferred (Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Kubernetes CKA/CKS, TOGAF/Cloud Security).

PREFERRED TOOLS / SOFT SKILLS

• IaC/GitOps: Terraform, Bicep, Helm, ArgoCD/Flux, GitHub/Azure DevOps
• Cloud & Kubernetes: Azure, AKS, GKE, Container Registries, service mesh (Istio/Linkerd)
• Observability/Security: OpenTelemetry, Dynatrace/Datadog, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Microsoft Sentinel

Key Soft Skills

• Strong technical leadership and ability to set standards across vendors
• Clear communication of complex architectures to technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Structured problem solving and root-cause analysis discipline
• Delivery focus: balancing ideal architecture with time/cost constraints
• Collaboration and influence across security, operations, and delivery teams

Job Type: Permanent

Pay: Up to QAR20,000.00 per month