Vice President Infrastructure Managed Services

About the role

The Vice President Infrastructure Managed Services will own the operation of Aldar Academies' physical and network technology foundation, ensuring that data centres, networks, firewalls and connectivity run reliably across the Group and its subsidiaries.

Key responsibilities

• Direct outsourced IT Managed Services, define scopes, service levels and monitor performance.
• Maintain high availability, performance and capacity of networks, firewalls, data centres and connectivity.
• Implement infrastructure resilience, redundancy, fail‑over and disaster‑recovery solutions.
• Enforce security controls in partnership with Information Security, including secure configuration, segmentation and patching.
• Drive modernization through automation, software‑defined infrastructure and cloud alignment.
• Manage contracts, vendor relationships and ensure commercial discipline.
• Lead and develop the internal infrastructure team while supporting Emiratization goals.

Required profile

• Minimum 10 years of infrastructure operations leadership in large, multi‑entity organisations.
• At least 2 years of managerial experience overseeing outsourced services.
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (Master’s preferred).
• UAE national.

Required skills

• Infrastructure operations
• Disaster recovery
• Connectivity management
• Cloud alignment
• Managed services oversight
• Data centre management
• Network engineering
• Firewall administration
• Automation
• Infrastructure security