Infrastructure Architect

Infrastructure Architect Experience: 7+ years of relevant experience, including 3+ years in an Infrastructure Architect or similar architecture role.

Location: UAE Position Summary We are looking for an experienced Infrastructure Architect to lead the architecture, design, and technical governance of enterprise-scale infrastructure solutions.

This is a hands-on architecture role combining infrastructure design, compute, virtualization, storage, networking, backup, cloud, security, High Availability (HA), Disaster Recovery (DR), and technical governance.

The ideal candidate will have strong experience translating business and application requirements into scalable, secure, resilient, and well-governed infrastructure solutions, supported by comprehensive High-Level Design (HLD) and Low-Level Design (LLD) documentation.

Key Responsibilities

Lead end-to-end infrastructure architecture and solution design based on business, application, security, availability, performance, and operational requirements. Develop and maintain High-Level Design (HLD) and Low-Level Design (LLD) documentation.

Translate business and application requirements into infrastructure architecture, technical specifications, sizing, configurations, and implementation requirements.

Design solutions covering compute, virtualization, storage, backup, networking, operating systems, databases, cloud, security, monitoring, and management platforms. Define infrastructure topology, component interactions, dependencies, integration points, and deployment patterns.

Produce architecture diagrams covering logical and physical architecture, network connectivity, security zones, data flows, HA, and DR. Perform infrastructure sizing and capacity planning for CPU, memory, storage, network bandwidth, IOPS, backup capacity, and future growth.

Define High Availability, Disaster Recovery, backup, replication, RPO, and RTO requirements. Design infrastructure solutions using technologies such as VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, Windows Server, Linux, SAN/NAS/Object Storage, enterprise backup platforms, and cloud services.

Evaluate infrastructure technologies and provide technical recommendations based on requirements, scalability, compatibility, performance, and supportability. Review infrastructure BOM/BOQ and validate technical specifications, quantities, capacity, and licensing dependencies.

Work closely with application, security, network, database, cloud, vendor, OEM, and implementation teams. Define infrastructure prerequisites and dependencies for application deployments and migrations. Identify technical risks, assumptions, constraints, dependencies, and key architecture decisions.

Ensure solutions follow security requirements, enterprise architecture standards, regulatory requirements, and industry best practices. Review implementation designs and ensure deployed solutions align with approved architecture and design documentation.

Provide technical governance throughout implementation, migration, testing, commissioning, and transition to operations. Support troubleshooting and resolution of complex infrastructure design and integration issues.

Define operational requirements for monitoring, alerting, patching, backup, configuration management, capacity management, and infrastructure lifecycle management.

Technical Requirements Strong hands-on knowledge and experience in: Enterprise Infrastructure Architecture High-Level Design (HLD) and Low-Level Design (LLD) Windows Server and Linux/Unix VMware vSphere / vCenter and Microsoft Hyper-V HPE and Dell infrastructure Enterprise Storage, SAN, NAS and Object Storage Backup and Replication High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) RPO and RTO Design Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL and PostgreSQL LAN/WAN, Routing, Switching and Network Segmentation VLANs and Subnets Active Directory Infrastructure Security Cloud Infrastructure Infrastructure Monitoring and Management Capacity Planning and Performance Management Architecture Diag