Cloud and Infrastructure Platforms Director

Overview

KEO is a creative enterprise, where innovation is a way of life. We are uniquely resourced with end-to-end services to take clients from inspiration – through conceptualization – to realization of planning, design or project delivery in the built and natural environments. For over 60 years we’ve led with vision, contributing to many of the world’s most ambitious projects, iconic places, remarkable experiences and prosperous communities.

As a highly integrated and agile AEP/PMCM firm, KEO is recognized by ENR as one of the Top 225 International Design Firms and one of the Top 20 International PM/CM Firms. We are also ranked by World Architecture as the 51st largest global architecture firm and the #1 Firm in the Middle East Region in their 2024 WA100 Survey.

We invite you to join us. Why?

When you join KEO, you’ll discover more than just a job – you’ll find a supportive environment that fosters your professional development through internal global mobility and career development and does so within a culture that supports company-wide health and well-being through on-demand counselling services and regular workplace clinics. You will be invited to celebrate community events such as sports days, fun-runs, in-house sports teams and beach clean ups.

In addition to your competitive package and benefits you will have access to a suite of policies that include hybrid working arrangements, individual athletic sponsorship, study assistance sponsorship, employee referral rewards.

Our newest opportunity is for a talented Cloud and Infrastructure Platforms Director to to join our award-winning team based in Dubai, UAE.

This critical leadership role is responsible for defining, delivering, and managing the organization’s enterprise cloud, infrastructure, and platform strategy across regional and international operations. The successful candidate will lead the modernization of IT infrastructure, cloud adoption, cybersecurity resilience, digital workplace technologies, and enterprise platform services to support a rapidly growing construction consultancy business.

The role requires a highly experienced technology leader with a strong background in hybrid cloud environments, enterprise infrastructure operations, IT governance, cybersecurity, and large-scale transformation initiatives within complex, multi-site organizations.

We envisage success in this role to include;

Strategic & Platform Leadership

• Define and execute KEO's cloud-first, platform-first infrastructure strategy, leading the evolution from traditional operations toward a modern platform engineering model that enables self-service, automated, and product-oriented infrastructure capabilities.
• Manage and continuously improve service reliability at enterprise scale, owning KEO's infrastructure performance and availability posture in alignment with digital transformation goals and business priorities.

Cloud & Platform Engineering

• Own and evolve KEO's Microsoft Azure environment, leading the design, deployment, and lifecycle management of IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS platforms through cloud-native architectures, infrastructure-as-code (IaC), and platform engineering principles to ensure scalability, security, cost-optimization, and developer agility.
• Oversee identity and access management via Microsoft Entra , enforcing MFA, RBAC, and least-privilege principles, and manage KEO's zero-trust network architecture ensuring access is granted only through verified identity, context, and policy.
• Maintain certified digital platforms - including Microsoft SharePoint and Autodesk Construction Cloud - to their respective security and governance standards.
• Drive cloud cost optimization initiatives - including right-sizing, reserved capacity management, and workload scheduling - to maximize return on cloud investment.

Cybersecurity & Digital Trust

• Champion KEO's cybersecurity posture across all infrastructure and platform operations, overseeing Microsoft Sentinel (SIEM) for real-time threat detection, automated response playbooks, and rapid incident management, alongside cloud security posture management (CSPM) for continuous assessment and remediation of…