Job Description
Role Purpose:
Architect, build, and operate secure, scalable, and resilient infrastructure that powers the company’s products, services, and digital experiences. From physical data centers to multi-cloud platforms, enable engineering velocity, business continuity, and innovation at scale. Seeking a hands-on, execution-driven leader to modernize and operate Bupa Arabia’s foundational infrastructure. This role oversees the full stack—data centers, networks, databases, storage, cloud platforms, and automation—ensuring performance, security, and reliability for enterprise applications, AI/data workloads, and customer-facing experiences. Role will partner closely with product, application engineering, AI/data, and cybersecurity teams to ensure infrastructure capabilities are aligned with business priorities, security requirements, and regulatory standards. This role is ideal for a leader who has personally led cloud migrations, has deep cloud engineering experience (Azure, GCP, etc.), and can bridge legacy and modern infrastructure with confidence.
Key Accountabilities:
1- Data Center & Platform Operations;
- Oversee on-premises infrastructure: servers, storage, virtualization (VMware, Hyper-V), and lifecycle management
- Lead infrastructure modernization initiatives to increase efficiency and reliability
2- Network & Connectivity;
- Design and manage enterprise-wide network infrastructure (LAN, WAN, VPN, firewalls, routing)
- Ensure secure and scalable connectivity across data centers, branches, and cloud platforms
3- Database & Storage;
- Operate and optimize enterprise databases (SQL, NoSQL) and storage platforms to ensure availability, performance, scalability, and security.
- Implement backup, recovery, and replication strategies in alignment with business continuity requirements.
- Partner with application and data teams to ensure database services meet workload and performance needs.
4- Reliability Engineering & Observability;
- Operate and optimize enterprise databases (SQL, NoSQL) and storage platforms to ensure availability, performance, scalability, and security.
- Implement backup, recovery, and replication strategies in alignment with business continuity requirements.
- Partner with application and data teams to ensure database services meet workload and performance needs.
5- Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery;
- Own the enterprise-wide disaster recovery strategy and backup architecture
- Conduct regular failover and recovery drills to ensure operational readiness
6- Cloud Platform Engineering & Transformation;
- Lead hybrid-cloud strategy design and execution
- Manage cloud infrastructure across Azure and GCP
- Own and lead cloud migration initiatives—moving workloads from on-prem to cloud-native environments
- Drive automation, infrastructure-as-code (IaC), and CI/CD enablement across platform engineering
Skills
- Strong hands-on experience with cloud platforms—Azure and/or GCP are required
- Proven track record of migrating enterprise infrastructure from on-premise to cloud
- Experience managing data centers, virtualization, and storage platforms
- Deep expertise in enterprise networking and security infrastructure
- Familiar with cloud-native architecture, automation tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible), and DevOps practices
- Strong knowledge of business continuity, DR planning, and compliance frameworks
- Demonstrated ability to partner with business, product, and engineering teams to align infrastructure capabilities to strategic priorities.
- Experience in insurance, healthcare, or other regulated industries (plus)
- Relevant professional certifications (e.g., Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Google Professional Cloud Architect, AWS Solutions Architect Professional, VMware Certified Professional, CCNP, TOGAF) are highly desirable.
- Master’s degree in a relevant discipline (e.g., Information Systems, Cloud Computing, Business Administration) is preferred.
Education
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field
