Technical Architect

**203983**Job Posting** Feb 19, 2025, 7:45:18 AM | **Primary Location** Doha | **Unposting Date** Mar 5, 2025, 2:59:00 PM

**Description**

**ABOUT THE ROLE**

**RESPONSIBILITES**
- Collaborate with product teams to understand functional and non-functional requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
- Facilitate communication and collaboration between engineering and product teams to ensure that solutions meet both technical and business needs.
- Participate in infrastructure design and architecture reviews to ensure that proposed solutions meet the requirements and align with the overall architecture.
- Ensure the right cloud services are leveraged to address the business requirements.
- Guide the development team on operational & observability aspects (Logging, monitoring, alerts etc)
- Collaborate with Solution Architects from other LOBs to identify synergies in solutions and to adopt and standardize common tools and technologies across organization
- Excellent understanding of high availability, scalability and resilience options available in different cloud platforms.
- Plan and execute proof of concepts to demonstrate feasibility of idea, complex solutions and cutting-edge technologies.
- Ensure that recommended architecture is manageable, maintainable, scalable, resilient, sustainable, cost effective whilst addressing business requirements.
- Lead root cause analysis of reported critical incidents in operational production systems and recommend/ ensure implementation of effective preventive actions to avoid repetition
- Find opportunities to innovate using technology advancements, to the benefit of the product
- Share best practices and knowledge with engineers to promote continuous learning and improvement.
- Define and implement technical standards, best practices, and patterns for cloud native development.
- Recommend the right choice of tools & libraries in alignment with the organization standards.
- Ensure all architecture decisions are in alignment with corporate security standards and guidelines.
- Articulate the benefits of architecture modernization to stakeholders and ensure adoption of latest and proven engineering practices & technology trends.
- Responsible for the development and maintenance of Kubernetes based azure infrastructure
- Accountable for setting up of environments and system components to achieve High availability (99.99% uptime)
- Ensure infrastructure is provisioned in a resilient and cost-effective manner
- Proactively identify scaling issues and collaborate with development and infrastructure team
- Work with architects and software engineers to migrate the existing platform to Cloud and help resolve issues
- Ensure SLA and service quality is adhered to.
- Provide regular updates and status reports to the management.

**Be part of an extraordinary story**

Your skills. Your imagination. Your ambition. Here, there are no boundaries to your potential and the impact you can make. You’ll find infinite opportunities to grow and work on the biggest, most rewarding challenges that will build your skills and experience. You have the chance to be a part of our future, and build the life you want while being part of an international community. Our best is here and still to come. To us, impossible is only a challenge. Join us as we dare to achieve what’s never been done before.

Together, everything is possible

**ABOUT YOU - Skills**
- Minimum 8 years’ experience in designing and operating Application Infrastructure solutions in On-premise/Cloud is mandatory
- Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification is mandatory
- Experience in GCP will be an added advantage
- Hands-on Experience in provisioning and managing PaaS Services like API Gateway, App Services, Kubernetes, Service Bus and Databases in Azure Cloud
- Hands-on Experience in setting up Azure Monitoring Alerts and Dashboards using Azure Application Insights & Azure Log Analytics Workspace
- Experience integrating Cloud Services with tools like Grafana and Prometheus will be an added advantage
- Experience in designing and managing multi-cloud & Hybrid cloud platforms will be an added advantage
- Experience in migration of large monolith architecture to cloud ready architecture.
- Hands-on Experience in implementing Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Azure Advisor recommendations
- Solid understanding of Azure Well Architected Framework and experience in reviewing and implementing the WAR recommendations
- Solid understanding of Cloud FinOps methodologies and hands-on experience in implementing Cost Optimization principles
- Solid understanding of Azure Network Security concepts like NSGs, UDRs, Firewalls etc.,
- Experience in IaC Tools & Technologies like Azure CLI, Terraform, Bicep etc.,
- Good understanding of SQL & NoSQL databases in cloud and should be able to recommend the right DB for diverse types of requirements.
- Development experience in Java or C-sharp will be added advantage
- Must have good analy