Overview
Platform/Cloud Architect Jobs in Doha, Qatar at Starlink Qatar
Position: Platform / Cloud Architect
We are seeking a Platform / Cloud Architect to design and govern the core cloud-agnostic platform foundations for TASMU Platform 2.0. The role ensures consistent deployment, security, connectivity, and operational standards across multiple vendor-delivered capabilities.
The architect defines the target platform architecture across Azure and additional clouds, enabling standardized landing zones, Kubernetes runtime patterns, infrastructure-as-code, and shared platform services (identity, observability, logging, CI/CD, networking). The role provides technical leadership for platform modernization
, ensures design compliance through architecture reviews, and drives platform reliability, scalability, and cost governance from build through operations.
Key Responsibilities
- Define and maintain TASMU 2.0 platform reference architecture (cloud-agnostic runtime, shared services, control plane).
- Design and govern landing zones, subscription/project structures, network hub/spoke, DNS, routing, and private connectivity patterns
. - Establish standardized Kubernetes architecture (AKS/GKE/other), cluster baseline, node pool strategy, GPU/TPU readiness, and autoscaling.
- Define IaC/Git Ops standards (Terraform/Bicep/Helm, pipelines, drift control, environment promotion).
- Own platform-level security-by-design controls (identity integration, secrets/keys, WAF, segmentation, policy-as-code).
- Specify observability and operations foundations (OTel, logs/metrics/traces, alerting, ITSM integration, SLOs).
- Drive resiliency architecture (HA, backup/restore, DR strategy, RPO/RTO targets, runbooks and testing).
- Establish platform service catalog foundations and “golden paths” for onboarding smart solutions and vendors.
- Partner with Fin Ops to implement cost governance (tagging, budgets, anomaly detection, chargeback/showback).
- Provide technical assurance for vendor platform deliverables and support production readiness reviews/go-live gates.
Skills & Abilities
- Deep expertise in cloud platform architecture (networking, compute, storage, security, and operations).
- Ability to create pragmatic cloud-agnostic standards while leveraging managed services appropriately.
- Proven experience implementing IaC/Git Ops and platform governance (policies, baselines, compliance).
- Strong troubleshooting mindset for cross-vendor, cross-environment platform issues and reliability improvements.
Education & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Cybersecurity
;
Master’s degree highly preferred. - 8+ years in cloud/platform engineering or architecture roles; experience in government, telco, or critical infrastructure preferred.
- Hands-on delivery experience with Azure plus at least one other cloud (GCP/AWS) and hybrid connectivity patterns.
- Experience building secure landing zones, enterprise networks, and multi-environment delivery pipelines
. - Experience running production platforms with SRE/ITIL-aligned practices (incident/change/problem management).
- Relevant certifications preferred:
Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Kubernetes CKA/CKS, TOGAF, Cloud Security
.
Preferred Tools
- Observability/Security: Open Telemetry, Dynatrace/Datadog, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Microsoft Sentinel
Soft Skills
- Strong technical leadership and ability to set standards across vendors
- Clear communication of complex architectures to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Structured problem solving and root-cause analysis discipline
- Delivery focus: balancing ideal architecture with time/cost constraints
- Collaboration and influence across security, operations, and delivery teams
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Title: Platform/Cloud Architect
Company: Starlink Qatar
Location: Doha, Qatar
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