Jazeera Airways
IT Cloud Administrator
- Permanent
- Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Experience 5 - 10 yrs
Job expiry date: 14/04/2026
Job overview
Date posted
28/02/2026
Location
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Salary
AED 20,000 - 30,000 per month
Compensation
Job description
The IT Cloud Administrator – Airline & Airport Operations is responsible for designing, managing, and securing cloud infrastructure that supports 24x7 airline and airport operations, ensuring availability, security, scalability, and compliance of cloud platforms hosting operational, passenger, and corporate systems. The role is critical in enabling high availability for flight and passenger-facing systems, strengthening cloud security posture in regulated aviation environments, and supporting digital transformation and cloud-first initiatives across airline and airport ecosystems. The position administers and supports Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) environments, manages cloud resources for operational, corporate, and customer-facing applications, and ensures high availability, scalability, and performance of cloud workloads. Responsibilities include designing and managing Azure Networking components such as Virtual Networks (VNets), Subnets, NSGs, Site-to-Site VPN, Point-to-Site VPN, and ExpressRoute, while supporting secure connectivity between airport terminals, airline HQ and branch offices, and on-prem data centers and cloud platforms, including multi-region and high-availability network architectures. The role implements and manages Azure Security controls including Microsoft Defender for Cloud, security baselines and policies, logging and monitoring, and supports compliance with aviation security standards and internal governance while monitoring, investigating, and remediating cloud security incidents. The administrator supports multi-cloud operations across Azure and GCP, manages identity, networking, and security integrations, ensures governance, cost management, and operational consistency, monitors performance and availability, performs capacity planning and cost optimization, participates in 24x7 support and incident management, conducts Root Cause Analysis (RCA), supports automation using ARM, Bicep, and Terraform, implements standard templates and governance models, maintains cloud architecture documentation, and collaborates with application, network, security, airport operations teams, cloud vendors, and managed service providers.
Required skills
Key responsibilities
- Administer and support Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) environments by managing cloud resources for operational, passenger-facing, and corporate systems while ensuring high availability, scalability, and performance of cloud workloads in 24x7 airline and airport operations.
- Design and manage Azure Networking including Virtual Networks (VNets), Subnets, NSGs, Site-to-Site VPN, Point-to-Site VPN, and ExpressRoute, and support secure hybrid connectivity between airport terminals, airline HQ and branch offices, and on-prem data centers across multi-region, high-availability architectures.
- Implement and manage Azure Security controls such as Microsoft Defender for Cloud, security baselines, policies, logging, and monitoring while ensuring compliance with aviation security standards and internal governance requirements.
- Monitor, investigate, and remediate cloud security incidents, conduct Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for cloud-related incidents impacting operations, and participate in 24x7 support and on-call rotations to maintain mission-critical service continuity.
- Manage multi-cloud identity, networking, and security integrations across Azure and GCP, ensuring governance, cost management, operational consistency, and resource optimization across platforms.
- Monitor cloud resources for performance, availability, and security, perform capacity planning, cost optimization, and enforce tagging, governance models, and resource controls to maintain operational efficiency.
- Support automation initiatives using ARM, Bicep, and Terraform, implement standard templates and best practices, and drive cloud standardization and operational maturity across airline and airport ecosystems.
- Maintain cloud architecture diagrams, SOPs, and runbooks, collaborate closely with application, network, security, and airport operations teams, and coordinate with cloud vendors and managed service providers to ensure aligned cloud service delivery.
Experience & skills
- Hold a Bachelor’s degree in IT and demonstrate a minimum of 5 years of experience as a Cloud Administrator supporting enterprise or mission-critical environments.
- Demonstrate proficiency in Microsoft Azure including Azure Entra ID, Azure Networking, and Azure Security, along with hands-on experience in Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Exhibit strong understanding of Cloud identity and access management, Cloud networking, and hybrid connectivity including VPN and ExpressRoute configurations.
- Show comprehensive knowledge of security best practices and compliance in regulated environments, particularly supporting aviation security standards and SLA-driven operations.
- Provide experience supporting mission-critical, high-availability environments with 24x7 operational requirements and incident management processes.
- Demonstrate capability in monitoring, capacity planning, cost optimization, governance enforcement, and conducting Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for cloud incidents.
- Possess exposure to automation tools such as ARM, Bicep, and Terraform, and implement standardized governance, tagging, and operational best practices in cloud environments.
- Hold or demonstrate knowledge aligned with certifications such as Microsoft Azure Administrator (AZ-104), Microsoft Azure Security Engineer (AZ-500), Google Cloud Associate or Professional certifications, and ITIL Foundation, with aviation or airport industry exposure preferred.