About the Role
This is an opportunity to join a new financial markets venture under formation in Oman, backed by prominent institutional investors. The business is building its operations from the ground up and is hiring during the build phase. Join at an early stage to help establish the secure, resilient, and highly available technology infrastructure required to support critical business operations.
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What You’ll Do
- Manage cloud infrastructure across OCI, Azure, and AWS, alongside servers, storage, and virtualisation platforms including VMware and Hyper-V.
- Administer Windows and Linux servers, enterprise infrastructure services, and containerised environments using Docker and Kubernetes.
- Automate infrastructure deployment, configuration, and maintenance using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, PowerShell, and Python.
- Support networking, firewalls, VPNs, and cloud connectivity to maintain secure and reliable infrastructure services.
- Manage backup, disaster recovery, monitoring, and high-availability solutions to support business continuity.
- Implement infrastructure security measures, patching, access controls, and relevant compliance requirements.
- Troubleshoot and resolve incidents affecting critical production systems, escalating significant risks and incidents where appropriate.
- Maintain technical documentation, standard operating procedures, and infrastructure diagrams.
- Supervise and coordinate the daily activities of assigned Infrastructure Team Members, providing technical guidance and monitoring task completion.
- Coordinate with internal IT teams, cloud providers, technology vendors, and service providers on support, maintenance, and project delivery.
What You’ll Bring
- A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant professional experience.
- At least five years of experience in infrastructure and/or cloud engineering.
- Strong hands-on experience managing cloud and on-premises infrastructure environments.
- Sound knowledge of server administration, networking, firewalls, VPNs, backup, disaster recovery, and high availability.
- Experience with infrastructure security, patching, access controls, and incident management.
- Working proficiency in relevant technologies, including OCI, Azure, AWS, VMware, Hyper-V, Windows, and Linux.
- Familiarity with containerisation and infrastructure automation tools, including Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, PowerShell, and Python.
- Experience supervising, mentoring, or guiding technical team members.
- Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to remain composed when resolving critical production incidents.
- Excellent communication, documentation, and prioritisation skills.
- Strong written and spoken English.
Desirable Experience
- Relevant professional certifications in cloud, infrastructure, or networking technologies.
- Experience supporting business-critical or highly available production environments.
- Experience coordinating infrastructure projects and working with external technology vendors.
- Proficiency in Arabic.
Location and Terms
- Location: Muscat, Oman.
- Omani nationals: Permanent employment.
- Expatriate hires: Two-year fixed-term contract.
Omani nationals are strongly encouraged to apply. This is an opportunity to play a key role in building the technology foundations of a new financial markets venture, combining hands-on engineering with technical leadership as the business develops.
