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Manager - Infrastructure

InceptionAbu Dhabi, UAE1 months agoMid-Senior
Mid-Seniorfulltime

Skills

LeadershipStrategic PlanningBudgeting

About This Role

Overview

Infrastructure Manager oversees the planning, execution, and optimization of hybrid Azure/on-premises environments, ensuring project governance, compliance, and stakeholder alignment.

They lead cross-functional teams, manage budgets, and drive technology modernization to deliver high-quality, secure, and resilient infrastructure solutions.

The opportunity

Inception is the UAE’s national-scale enabler in AI Research and Development.

Partnering with Microsoft's AI SaaS, we offer domain-specific Agentic AI Orchestrator platforms utilizing reasoning agents for precise and cost-effective services.

Our focus includes AI incubation, IP creation, applied AI R&D, and AI investment products.

By creating models tailored to specific domains and languages, we ensure superior accuracy and efficiency.

Collaborating with top universities and industry giants to drive significant advancements in AI technology within the region.

Responsibilities

  • Oversee and optimize both on-premises and Azure cloud environments, leveraging Azure services
  • Define and maintain project governance throughout project lifecycles, ensuring alignment with business objectives and IT standards.
  • Present technical strategies and updates to senior business and IT management; independently prepare and deliver presentations for executive committees.
  • Analyze and enhance technology standards, maintaining organizational competitiveness and market edge.
  • Driving long-term technology strategy and innovation initiatives.
  • Justify technology initiatives via business case development and cost/benefit analysis.
  • Define requirements for new technology implementations and communicate them to key stakeholders.
  • Select, lead, and mentor project teams; independently manage project planning, tracking, reporting, change management, risk assessment, and control using industry-standard PM methodologies and tools (such as Jira, ServiceNow, or Azure DevOps).
  • Manage and optimize cloud and on-premises expenditures by developing financial models, forecasts, and budgets, while ensuring projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to the required quality for customer satisfaction.
  • Ensure project governance is defined and maintained throughout project duration.
  • Act as primary liaison for the company’s technology vision via regular written and in-person communications with the organization’s leadership and end users
  • Responsible for budgeting the IT and Infrastructure expenses , validate and ensure FINOPS is established
  • Manage weekly , monthly , quarterly reports and presentations to c level executive

Qualifications

  • Exceptional ability to influence and align multiple teams toward a common vision and roadmap.
  • Strong analytical skills with a data-driven approach to decision-making.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills.
  • BS or MS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent work experience; advanced degree or relevant technical management experience preferred.
  • Industry Experience: 10-15 years in the Information Technology industry, with significant project management experience.
  • Demonstrated strong business acumen, with proven ability to align technology initiatives with business goals.
  • Proficiency in using and managing ticketing systems such as ServiceNow, Jira, or Azure DevOps.
  • Hands-on experience with Azure services including compute, networking, security, monitoring, and automation.

What We Look For

If you are a performance-driven, inquisitive mind with the agility to adapt to ambiguity, you will fit right in.

You should be eager to explore opportunities to build meaningful collaborations with stakeholders and aspire to create unique customer-centric solutions.

Bias for action and a passion to conquer new frontiers in the AI space is at the heart of the Inception community.

Culture

: An open, diverse and inclusive environment with a global vision that encourages personal growth and focuses on ground-breaking, industry-first innovations.

Career

: Outstanding learning, development & growth opportunities via structured training programs and innovative, high-tech projects.

Work-Life

: A hybrid work policy to strike the perfect balance between office and home.

Rewards

: A competitive remuneration package with a host of perks including healthcare, education support, leave benefits and more.

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