Platform / Cloud Architect

Description

Summary: The Platform / Cloud Architect designs and governs cloud-agnostic platform foundations for TASMU Platform 2.0, ensuring consistent deployment, security, and operational standards. Highlights: 1. Technical leadership for platform modernization 2. Drive platform reliability, scalability, and cost governance 3. Deep expertise in cloud platform architecture **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