Senior Solution & Network Architect – Cyber Vault | Long-Term Contract
Budget: $50 – $0 USD
I are seeking an experienced Senior Solution & Network Architect to design and support the implementation of an enterprise Cyber Vault and isolated recovery environment for a major organisation in Abu Dhabi, UAE.
This is not a general cloud, DevOps, system administration, or backup-operations role. We require a senior architect who has personally designed secure, isolated, and resilient recovery platforms that protect critical enterprise data against ransomware and major cyber incidents.
The successful consultant will own or contribute significantly to the end-to-end architecture across backup, storage, virtualization, cloud, network isolation, privileged access, secrets management, security controls, and disaster recovery.
Key Responsibilities
Design the end-to-end Cyber Vault and isolated recovery architecture.
Produce HLDs, LLDs, reference architectures, technical standards, and implementation roadmaps.
Design immutable, air-gapped, or logically isolated backup repositories.
Define network segmentation between production, backup, Cyber Vault, and clean-recovery environments.
Design secure administrative access, privileged-access controls, break-glass procedures, and four-eyes approval processes.
Define recovery sequencing, RPO, RTO, restoration testing, and ransomware-recovery procedures.
Review existing cloud, data-centre, storage, VMware, backup, and network environments.
Evaluate technologies and vendors through RFI, RFP, POC, or technical-assessment processes.
Present proposed designs to senior stakeholders, Architecture Review Boards, or Design Authorities.
Support technical teams throughout implementation, testing, handover, and operational readiness.
Essential Experience
Applicants should have at least 10 years of enterprise IT experience, with strong architecture experience in several of the following areas:
Cyber Vault or Cyber Recovery architecture
Isolated Recovery Environments
Immutable or air-gapped backup
Ransomware recovery and clean-room restoration
Rubrik, Veeam, Commvault, Cohesity, NetBackup, Dell PowerProtect, Data Domain, Avamar, NetWorker, HYCU, or IBM Spectrum Protect
Enterprise SAN/NAS and object-storage architecture
Fibre Channel, zoning, LUNs, multipathing, storage replication, and retention controls
VMware ESXi, vCenter, vSphere, vSAN, NSX, SRM, or VMware Cloud Foundation
AWS or Microsoft Azure infrastructure, storage, networking, security, and disaster recovery
Cisco or Juniper networking
BGP, OSPF, MPLS, SD-WAN, inter-site connectivity, firewalls, and network segmentation
HashiCorp Vault, CyberArk, BeyondTrust, ARCON, or another enterprise secrets-management or PAM platform
Zero Trust, IAM, RBAC, MFA, encryption, PKI, and HSM integration
ISO 27001, NIST, PCI-DSS, DORA, or other regulated-industry security frameworks
HLD, LLD, target-state architecture, reference architecture, and technical-roadmap preparation
Important Clarification
HashiCorp Vault and Cyber Vault are different technologies.
This is not a general cloud, DevOps, system administration, or backup-operations role. We require a senior architect who has personally designed secure, isolated, and resilient recovery platforms that protect critical enterprise data against ransomware and major cyber incidents.
The successful consultant will own or contribute significantly to the end-to-end architecture across backup, storage, virtualization, cloud, network isolation, privileged access, secrets management, security controls, and disaster recovery.
Key Responsibilities
Design the end-to-end Cyber Vault and isolated recovery architecture.
Produce HLDs, LLDs, reference architectures, technical standards, and implementation roadmaps.
Design immutable, air-gapped, or logically isolated backup repositories.
Define network segmentation between production, backup, Cyber Vault, and clean-recovery environments.
Design secure administrative access, privileged-access controls, break-glass procedures, and four-eyes approval processes.
Define recovery sequencing, RPO, RTO, restoration testing, and ransomware-recovery procedures.
Review existing cloud, data-centre, storage, VMware, backup, and network environments.
Evaluate technologies and vendors through RFI, RFP, POC, or technical-assessment processes.
Present proposed designs to senior stakeholders, Architecture Review Boards, or Design Authorities.
Support technical teams throughout implementation, testing, handover, and operational readiness.
Essential Experience
Applicants should have at least 10 years of enterprise IT experience, with strong architecture experience in several of the following areas:
Cyber Vault or Cyber Recovery architecture
Isolated Recovery Environments
Immutable or air-gapped backup
Ransomware recovery and clean-room restoration
Rubrik, Veeam, Commvault, Cohesity, NetBackup, Dell PowerProtect, Data Domain, Avamar, NetWorker, HYCU, or IBM Spectrum Protect
Enterprise SAN/NAS and object-storage architecture
Fibre Channel, zoning, LUNs, multipathing, storage replication, and retention controls
VMware ESXi, vCenter, vSphere, vSAN, NSX, SRM, or VMware Cloud Foundation
AWS or Microsoft Azure infrastructure, storage, networking, security, and disaster recovery
Cisco or Juniper networking
BGP, OSPF, MPLS, SD-WAN, inter-site connectivity, firewalls, and network segmentation
HashiCorp Vault, CyberArk, BeyondTrust, ARCON, or another enterprise secrets-management or PAM platform
Zero Trust, IAM, RBAC, MFA, encryption, PKI, and HSM integration
ISO 27001, NIST, PCI-DSS, DORA, or other regulated-industry security frameworks
HLD, LLD, target-state architecture, reference architecture, and technical-roadmap preparation
Important Clarification
HashiCorp Vault and Cyber Vault are different technologies.