Senior Manager Technology - Cloud Architect.Infrastructure Operations - Cloud Platform

Responsible for driving cost optimization by recommending rightsizing and cost-effective solutions. Collaborates across finance, IT, engineering, and business teams to support cost reduction efforts, ensure accurate cost allocation, and advise on initiatives that maximize cloud efficiency.

• Member of the CCoE team
• Interacts with the Cloud Architect on regular basis.
• Adhere to the project management, security controls, procedures and frameworks.
• Provide help to other team members. 
• Provide full information to the peers on work done and have full transparency in knowledge transfer processes
• Ensure management is fully notified of any risks, issues, project status and accomplishments
• Ensure that management is informed of any issues that are delaying the project or of any errors on timely and swiftly basis
• Provide daily updates to the line manager
• Ensure full compliance to the Cloud guidelines and procedures in place
• Develop cost optimization and recommend rightsizing.
• Collaborating on cost reduction initiatives
• Ensuring proper cost allocation
• Providing guidance for cost-effective solutions
• Bringing together finance, IT, engineering, and business teams to collaborate on optimizing cloud cost
• 5 – 8 years of experience with  Azure Microsoft Cloud 
• Working experience in Cloud Infrastructure (network, compute, storage, databases and kubernetes ) in Azure
• Understanding of Terraform & Azure DevOps
• Good Understanding of OS (Linux, Windows) Infrastructure
• Experience in Azure Administration
• Knowledge of PowerShell and Azure API's
• Problem m and Incident Management
• Impact and root cause analysis
• Recommend and implement best practices and solutions
• Adherence to standards and change management polices
• Audit, security and regulatory compliance knowledge
• Quickly resolve issues in a large-scale environment during technical snags
• Address performance issues
• Infrastructure and OS level diagnosis
• End to end connectivity diagnosis
• Make quick decisions during technical snags to avoid or reduce downtime.
• Review of documentation and applicable technical procedures. 
• On-time delivery of support services in-line with the SLA.
• Ensure the solutioning decision always follows the principle of High Availability, Resiliency and Auto Recovery

The leading financial institution in MENA While more than half a century old, we proudly think like a challenger, startup, and innovator in banking and finance, powered by a diverse and dynamic team who put customers first. Together, we pioneer key innovations and developments in banking and financial services. Our mandate? To help customers find their way to Rise Every Day, partnering with them through the highs and lows to help them reach their goals and unlock their unique vision of success. Delivering superior service to clients by leading with innovation, treating colleagues with dignity and fairness while pursuing opportunities that grow shareholders value.  We actively contribute to the community through responsible banking in our mission to inspire more people to Rise.