Group-IT Platform Engineer

GAC Group is seeking a Group-IT Platform Engineer – Azure in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. This role is crucial for ensuring the reliability, availability, security, and performance of our infrastructure platforms, supporting over 6,000 users globally. Join our growing Group IT team to support, maintain, and enhance our hybrid infrastructure environments.

The Group IT team is responsible for designing, implementing, securing, and operating enterprise infrastructure services across Microsoft Azure and hybrid environments. We are looking for a skilled infrastructure professional to contribute to our mission.

Company Overview

With more than 7,500 employees in 300 offices across over 50 countries, GAC delivers world-class shipping, logistics, and marine services. We emphasize quality, safety, sustainability, innovation, and ethics, offering flexible and integrated portfolios designed for speed and efficiency.

Quick Details

• Salary Range: Not Applicable
• Job Type: Full-time
• Qualifications: Bachelor’s / master’s degree in information technology, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Experience: 7+ yrs experience in Cloud platform like IaaS, PaaS, NaaS

Key Responsibilities

• Manage and troubleshoot enterprise Cloud platform.
• Manage Azure networking, including VNets, subnets, NSGs, UDRs, VPN Gateway, and VNet Peering.
• Implement and maintain IaaS, PaaS, Layer 7 & 4 load balancer and cloud networking.
• Establish platform and reference architecture, and manage changes.
• Implement Entra ID authentication, authorization, SSO, B2C and role-based access.
• Implement data permissions and document-level security.
• Implement secure access to internal documents and knowledge sources.
• Implement security controls and support vulnerability remediation.
• Manage backup and disaster recovery solutions, including Azure Site Recovery (ASR).
• Conduct backup testing, recovery exercises, failover/failback, and ensure recovery objectives are met.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure incidents in Cloud environments.
• Maintain infrastructure documentation, architecture/network diagrams, standards, and operational procedures.

Requirements

• Azure certifications such as AZ-104, AZ-305, AI-200/300, Linux/ windows certification and Development experience will be advantages.
• Good communication skills.
• Adaptability.
• Leadership skills.

Benefits

• Opportunity to work with a global team and support a large user base.
• Contribute to the design, implementation, and operation of enterprise infrastructure services.
• Gain experience in cutting-edge cloud technologies and hybrid environments.
• Work in a company that emphasizes quality, safety, sustainability, innovation, and ethics.