Overview
We are seeking an experienced IT Technical Lead / SME with deep, broad expertise across modern IT infrastructure technologies. This is a hands‑off leadership role, providing architectural guidance, technical oversight, and strategic direction to on‑site technical teams. The ideal candidate will bring enterprise‑scale experience from the oil & gas or energy sector, ideally having worked with major global organisations such as Saudi Aramco or other industry giants.
Key Responsibilities
- Serve as the senior technical authority across infrastructure domains, guiding engineering teams and ensuring alignment to best practices, architecture principles, and enterprise standards.
- Provide high‑level architectural insight and act as a trusted SME on infrastructure strategy, technology choices, and solution design.
- Work closely with cross‑functional teams (Operations, Security, Cloud, Networking, Applications) to ensure coordinated delivery of infrastructure initiatives.
- Conduct technical reviews of proposed solutions and designs, identifying risks, gaps, and improvements.
- Translate complex technical concepts into clear guidance for both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
- Support strategic planning, roadmap development, and continuous optimisation of infrastructure capabilities.
- Ensure infrastructure solutions meet organisational standards for resilience, scalability, compliance, and security.
- Act as a mentor and escalation point for technical teams, helping drive capability uplift and consistency across the organisation.
Required Skills & Experience
Technical Expertise
- Strong, broad knowledge across IT infrastructure architecture, including:
- Windows Server environments (AD, Group Policy, clustering, enterprise services)
- Linux-based systems (RHEL, Ubuntu, hardening, patching, enterprise deployment)
- On-premise infrastructure (compute, storage, networking, data centres)
- Cloud platforms (Azure, AWS or hybrid cloud models; governance, cost management, landing zones)
- Virtualisation & containerisation (VMware, Hyper‑V, Kubernetes - desirable)
- Excellent understanding of IT operations, monitoring, tooling, service management and automation.
Industry Experience
- Experience working within the oil & gas, energy, petrochemical, or large industrial sectors is highly desirable.
- Prior roles supporting complex, global enterprise environments, ideally for major organisations
Leadership & Soft Skills
- Exceptional communication, capable of engaging confidently with senior leadership, engineers, and external partners.
- Strong stakeholder-management and influencing skills, with the ability to drive consensus in technically diverse teams.
- Proven experience operating in hands‑off, advisory leadership roles with the ability to guide without direct control.
- Ability to manage competing priorities, provide clear direction, and ensure delivery of complex technical initiatives.
Qualifications
- Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
- Relevant certifications beneficial:
- Cloud (Azure/AWS Architect level certifications)
- ITIL, TOGAF, or other architecture frameworks
- Linux/Windows infrastructure certifications
Why This Role Might Appeal
- Opportunity to shape enterprise infrastructure strategy within a critical, high‑profile environment.
- Work with highly skilled teams on cutting‑edge technologies across hybrid and cloud landscapes.
- Strategic leadership role with significant influence and visibility.
