Cloud Engineer

Administer and optimise approved cloud and hosted platforms through secured remote access. The role supports provisioning, monitoring, security configuration, performance, cost visibility and hybrid connectivity without assuming ownership of cloud subscriptions, licences or consumption budgets.

Key Responsibilities

• Provision and administer approved cloud resources, platform services and access configurations.
• Monitor workloads, performance, availability and utilisation and respond to operational events.
• Apply approved security baselines, identity controls, tagging, logging and configuration standards.
• Support hybrid connectivity and dependencies with on-premises infrastructure, networks and applications.
• Provide cost, utilisation and optimisation analysis; implementation remains subject to entity approval.
• Maintain cloud inventories, diagrams, procedures, configuration records and recovery documentation.
• Support incident, problem and change management and contribute to root-cause analysis.
• Assist with TDRA-hosted or other approved environments once the target model and access are confirmed.

Requirements

Minimum Experience and Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of relevant cloud engineering and administration experience.
• Strong practical experience with Microsoft Azure and/or AWS in enterprise environments.
• Knowledge of cloud networking, identity, monitoring, security configuration, backup and cost management.
• Azure Administrator/Architect or AWS Solutions Architect certification preferred.
• Experience working through controlled privileged-access and change-management procedures.

Preferred Profile

• Previous experience supporting UAE government or regulated cloud environments.
• Working knowledge of TDRA-hosted environments and federal cloud coordination processes.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and automation under approved governance controls.

Expected Contribution

• Cloud workloads remain observable, secure and supported against the confirmed operating baseline.
• Utilisation and cost optimisation opportunities are reported with evidence.
• Configuration and access changes are documented, approved and traceable.
• Remote delivery complies with entity security and data-access requirements.