About The Role

# Infrastructure Architect - Cloud, DevOps & AI/ML

> GSSTech Group · Dubai, United Arab Emirates · — · Posted 2026-08-25

**Workplace:** on_site

## Description

We are looking for Infrastructure Architects and experienced Cloud Infrastructure professionals to design and support secure, resilient, scalable, high-performance, and cost-effective infrastructure across **cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments**.

The role focuses on designing the infrastructure foundation for modern enterprise solutions, with particular emphasis on **cloud platforms, compute, storage, networking, containerisation, Infrastructure-as-Code, high availability, disaster recovery, and data-intensive/AI/ML workloads**.

Candidates with different levels of experience are encouraged to apply, from strong infrastructure/cloud engineers looking to move into architecture through to experienced Infrastructure Architects.

## Requirements

### Key Responsibilities

Design end-to-end infrastructure architectures across **cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments**.
Define architecture across **compute, storage, networking, databases, and platform services** based on business and technical requirements.
Design infrastructure requirements for **data-intensive and AI/ML workloads**, including GPU compute, high-throughput storage, scalable processing, and inference environments.
Establish and maintain standards for **Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC)**, environment management, automation, and configuration consistency.
Design highly available infrastructure architectures with appropriate **backup, disaster recovery, business continuity, RTO and RPO** requirements.
Ensure infrastructure designs meet **security, compliance, data residency, and regulatory requirements**.
Perform capacity planning and **cost optimisation**, including resource right-sizing based on workload requirements.
Review infrastructure architecture and technical changes and provide guidance to infrastructure, cloud, DevSecOps, and engineering teams.
Support implementation teams by providing architecture guidance, technical standards, and recommended design patterns.
Evaluate emerging cloud and infrastructure technologies and provide recommendations for adoption where appropriate.
Contribute to infrastructure modernization, cloud migration, scalability, resilience, and performance improvement initiatives.

### Core Technical Skills
### Cloud & Hybrid Infrastructure

Experience with one or more major cloud platforms

**AWS**
**Microsoft Azure**
**Google Cloud Platform (GCP)**
Hybrid cloud environments
On-premises infrastructure

Candidates with strong expertise in one cloud platform are welcome, while multi-cloud experience will be an advantage.
### Compute, Networking & Storage

Strong understanding of infrastructure architecture across

Compute
Networking
Storage
Virtualisation
Load balancing
High availability
Disaster recovery
Backup and recovery
Business continuity
Performance and capacity planning

### Containers & Platform Technologies

Experience with

Docker
Kubernetes
Container orchestration
Container-based infrastructure
Cloud-native platform architectures

### Infrastructure-as-Code & Automation

Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and configuration management tools such as

Terraform
AWS CloudFormation
Azure Bicep
Ansible
Other infrastructure automation tools

Strong understanding of **environment management, configuration consistency, automation, and repeatable infrastructure deployment** is required.
### AI/ML & Data Infrastructure
Experience designing infrastructure for **data-intensive and AI/ML workloads** is highly desirable.

Relevant experience may include

GPU compute infrastructure
High-throughput storage
Scalable compute environments
AI/ML infrastructure
Model training infrastructure
Model inference environments
Data processing workloads
Performance and capacity optimisation for AI/ML workloads

### Security & Compliance

Strong understanding of

Infrastructure security
Security architecture
Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Authentication and authorization
Network security
Cloud security
Data protection
Compliance requirements
Data residency
Secure infrastructure design

The successful candidate should be able to incorporate security and compliance requirements into infrastructure architecture rather than treating them as an afterthought.
### High Availability & Disaster Recovery

Experience designing resilient infrastructure with consideration for

High Availability (HA)
Disaster Recovery (DR)
Backup strategies
Business Continuity
RTO – Recovery Time Objective
RPO – Recovery Point Objective
Failure recovery
Resilience and redundancy

### Architecture & Leadership Responsibilities

For senior-level candidates, responsibilities may include

Reviewing and approving infrastructure designs.
Establishing infrastructure architecture standards and reference patterns.
Providing technical direction to infrastructure and DevSecOps engineers.
Leading architecture discussions and design reviews.
Conducting technology evaluations and making adoption recommendations.
Mentoring engineers and supporting technical capability development.
Driving infrastructure modernization and optimization initiatives.

### Required Qualifications

Depending on seniority, candidates should demonstrate relevant experience across

Cloud infrastructure architecture or engineering
AWS, Azure and/or GCP
Networking and virtualisation
Docker and Kubernetes
Infrastructure-as-Code
Infrastructure automation
Security and IAM
High availability and disaster recovery
Infrastructure performance and capacity planning

**For senior/architect-level positions:** proven experience designing and governing enterprise-scale infrastructure architectures is expected.

**For junior/mid-level candidates:** strong hands-on infrastructure/cloud engineering experience with the ability and ambition to progress into architecture will also be considered.

### Certifications – Desirable

Relevant certifications are advantageous, including

AWS Solutions Architect
AWS Certified Advanced Networking / Security
Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect
Google Cloud Architect
Kubernetes certifications
HashiCorp Terraform certifications
TOGAF
Other relevant cloud, infrastructure, security, or architecture certifications

### Preferred Experience

Experience in one or more of the following environments will be an advantage

Enterprise infrastructure
Cloud transformation
Hybrid cloud
Cloud migration
AI/ML platforms
Data platforms
DevSecOps
Financial services / banking
Highly regulated environments
Large-scale distributed systems

### What We're Looking For

We are looking for people who can **design, not just operate infrastructure** — professionals who understand how compute, networking, storage, cloud, security, automation, resilience, and cost come together to support business-critical workloads.

Candidates should demonstrate strong problem-solving skills, technical curiosity, ownership, and the ability to work collaboratively with architecture, engineering, security, data, AI/ML, and DevSecOps teams.

### Experience Levels

**0–5 Years:** Cloud/Infrastructure Engineers with strong hands-on exposure and a clear interest in architecture.

**5–10 Years:** Senior Cloud/Infrastructure Engineers with architecture and design experience.

**10–15 Years:** Infrastructure/Cloud Architects with enterprise-scale design and governance experience.

**15+ Years:** Lead/Principal Infrastructure Architects capable of owning complex enterprise and hybrid-cloud architecture strategies.

## Apply

[Apply at GSSTech Group](https://apply.workable.com/gsstech-group/j/349EAFCF0C/apply)

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