Senior Cloud & Platform Architect (Infrastructure, M365 & Enterprise Platforms)
About This Role
About the role:
Job term: 12-month contract
Job location: Abu Dhabi, UAE
The Senior Cloud & Platform Architect is the design authority responsible for defining and governing the technical foundations, standards, patterns, and reference architectures across the company's infrastructure, cloud, and enterprise collaboration platforms.
Key Resposnibilities:
- Establish a scalable, governed, and repeatable Azure and M365 foundation aligned to enterprise best practice.
- Define platform standards and patterns that reduce ambiguity for engineering teams and vendors.
- Define and enforce platform standards including: Naming conventions (resources, groups, policies, identities, subscriptions, environments), Tagging standards and cost management structures.
- Define and govern the Azure landing zone architecture including: Subscription design and management group hierarchy, Azure Policy structure and compliance baselines.
- Define and maintain M365 architecture standards covering: Tenant governance model o Exchange Online configuration and governance principles . SharePoint and OneDrive standards (information architecture, sharing governance, lifecycle, retention).
Requirements:
- 10+ years experience in infrastructure, cloud, and platform architecture roles. • Deep hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure architecture and governance.
- Deep hands-on experience with Microsoft 365 architecture and tenant governance.
- Proven experience establishing and enforcing standards, patterns, and reference architectures.
- Experience producing enterprise-grade HLD and LLD documentation.
- Experience operating within multi-team, vendor-heavy delivery environments.
- Strong understanding of identity and access models across Azure and enterprise platforms. Strong understanding of operationalisation principles (monitoring, runbooks, support models).
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