Cloud Adminstrator

Location Dubai
Discipline: Financial Technology
Job type: Permanent
Contact name: Freddie Ricks

Contact email: freddie.ricks@venturesearch.com
Job ref: 3639
Published: about 15 hours ago

Our client, a leading national oil company, is seeking a Cloud Administrator to support, manage, and optimise its enterprise cloud environment. The role will focus on ensuring secure, resilient, and scalable cloud operations across business-critical applications, trading systems, analytics platforms, and corporate IT infrastructure. The ideal candidate has strong hands-on experience with cloud platforms, automation, monitoring, and security, with the ability to operate in a complex, high-availability environment.

Key Responsibilities

  • Administer, maintain, and optimise cloud infrastructure across Azure, AWS, or hybrid environments.

  • Support the deployment, configuration, and monitoring of cloud resources, virtual machines, storage, networking, and databases.

  • Implement and maintain cloud security controls including IAM, role-based access, policies, encryption, and compliance frameworks.

  • Monitor system performance, availability, and capacity, proactively identifying issues and driving resolutions.

  • Manage backups, disaster recovery setups, and cloud failover processes.

  • Support CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and automation initiatives using tools such as Terraform or ARM templates.

  • Troubleshoot infrastructure and application issues across cloud services, networks, and integrations.

  • Collaborate with cybersecurity, network, data, and trading technology teams to deliver stable and secure operations.

  • Support cloud cost management, optimisation, and reporting.

  • Document environments, changes, policies, and standard operating procedures.