Summary
GAC Group is seeking a Group IT Platform Engineer, Azure, in Dubai to support infrastructure platforms used by more than 6,000 users worldwide. The role covers hybrid infrastructure, Azure cloud services and networking, identity and access controls, security, backup and disaster recovery. The engineer will troubleshoot incidents, conduct recovery exercises and maintain technical documentation and architecture diagrams. Applicants should have a bachelor’s or master’s degree in IT, computer science or a related field and at least 7 years of cloud platform experience; Azure certifications are an advantage.
The posting
As published on gac.com. Pulled from the employer's site and shown as they wrote it.
As our Group-IT Platform Engineer – Azure in Dubai, you will play a key role in ensuring the reliability, availability, security, and performance of our infrastructure platforms, supporting more than 6,000 users worldwide.
As our Group IT team continues to grow, we are looking for a skilled infrastructure professional to support, maintain, and enhance our hybrid infrastructure environments, including Microsoft Azure, networking, virtualization, backup, and disaster recovery solutions.
The Group IT team is responsible for designing, implementing, securing, and operating enterprise infrastructure services across Microsoft Azure and hybrid environments.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Manage and troubleshoot enterprise Cloud platform.
Manage Azure networking, including VNets, subnets, NSGs, UDRs, VPN Gateway, and VNet Peering.
Implement and maintain IaaS, PaaS, Layer 7 & 4 load balancer and cloud networking
Establishing the platform and reference architecture, change management.
Implement Entra ID authentication, authorization, SSO, B2C and role-based access
Implement data permissions and document-level security
Implement secure access to internal documents and knowledge sources
Implement security controls and support vulnerability remediation.
Manage backup and disaster recovery solutions, including Azure Site Recovery (ASR).
Conduct backup testing, recovery exercises, failover/failback, and ensure recovery objectives are met.
Troubleshoot infrastructure incidents Cloud environments.
Maintain infrastructure documentation, architecture/network diagrams, standards, and operational procedures.
EXPERIENCE
Bachelor’s / master’s degree in information technology, Computer Science, or a related field.
7+ yrs experience in Cloud platform like IaaS, PaaS, NaaS
Software / certifications / licenses
Azure certifications such as AZ-104, AZ-305, AI-200/300, Linux/ windows certification and Development experience will be advantages.
Good communications / adaptability / leadership / other.