Badr Al-musabi

• Lead multidisciplinary engineering teams of 10+ across DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, Platform Engineering, and SecOps functions supporting enterprise
scale AWS platforms and high-volume digital services.
• Define and execute cloud infrastructure strategy across AWS environments, improving scalability, reliability, security posture, operational efficiency, and
long-term platform resilience across business-critical platforms and services.
• Delivered a major AWS cost optimisation programme, reducing monthly cloud spend from approximately $117K to $75K through infrastructure right
sizing, resource optimisation, architectural improvements, and governance controls.
• Improved infrastructure utilisation, cloud governance, and operational efficiency across AWS environments, contributing to increased platform
scalability and long-term cost optimisation.
• Introduced Agile delivery frameworks, engineering governance processes, and workflow optimisation initiatives, improving delivery efficiency,
operational maturity, and engineering throughput by 20%.
• Accelerated engineering delivery cadence and improved deployment consistency through increased automation, CI/CD standardisation, and
infrastructure-as-code adoption across platform engineering teams.
• Lead the delivery of internally developed routing and content resolution platforms supporting high-volume digital services and modernised operational
workflows.
• Partner with executive leadership to define long-term cloud, infrastructure, and platform engineering strategy aligned with organisational growth,
scalability, resilience, and operational objectives.
• Oversee Kubernetes-based container platforms, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and cloud-native engineering practices using Terraform,
Jenkins, GitHub, Docker, and AWS services.
• Implemented centralised logging, monitoring, and observability solutions using ELK stack technologies to improve incident response, platform visibility,
operational resilience, and proactive monitoring capabilities.
• Enhanced operational visibility and incident response capability through centralised observability and monitoring initiatives, reducing operational risk
and strengthening platform reliability practices.
• Manage strategic vendor relationships, commercial negotiations, contract renewals, and third-party technology partnerships to optimise operational
value, platform capability, and infrastructure spend.
• Own infrastructure budgeting, forecasting, cloud spend governance, and financial planning activities in partnership with finance and executive
leadership stakeholders.
• Lead recruitment, hiring, onboarding, mentoring, and capability development activities across DevOps, infrastructure, platform engineering, and security
teams, supporting organisational growth and engineering maturity.
• Collaborate closely with senior leadership, product teams, and engineering stakeholders to align platform strategy, security initiatives, and delivery
roadmaps with business objectives and long-term technology goals.
• Drive security and compliance initiatives alongside SecOps teams, strengthening governance, operational controls, cloud security posture, infrastructure
resilience, and risk management practices across cloud environments.
• Improved operational governance, platform stability, and engineering collaboration through establishment of Agile ceremonies, delivery reporting,
backlog refinement, sprint planning, and continuous improvement frameworks across technical teams.

• Designed and delivered enterprise infrastructure and virtualisation architectures for regulated financial and enterprise clients within the Dubai
International Financial Centre (DIFC).
• Led the design and launch of XENStack, a secure multi-tenant virtualisation platform enabling scalable hosting, high availability, and resilient enterprise
workloads.
• Defined enterprise infrastructure standards covering network segmentation, security zoning, disaster recovery, backup frameworks, business continuity,
and platform resilience.
• Developed secure hosting environments aligned with financial-sector governance, operational security, and compliance expectations.
• Acted as trusted infrastructure advisor to executive stakeholders, supporting technology investment decisions, infrastructure strategy, and risk
mitigation planning.
• Collaborated with vendors, technical teams, and business leadership to deliver highly available infrastructure solutions supporting mission-critical
operations.
• Established infrastructure governance processes, operational procedures, and resilience standards across hosted environments and client platforms.
• Supported cloud adoption and infrastructure modernisation initiatives to improve scalability, operational efficiency, and long-term platform
sustainability.

• Led cloud infrastructure and DevOps transformation initiatives across large-scale educational media platforms serving international markets.
• Delivered migration of core CMS and platform services to AWS, improving scalability, operational resilience, deployment flexibility, and platform
reliability.
• Designed and implemented video delivery platforms supporting digital learning services across the UAE and Egypt markets.
• Managed cloud infrastructure, platform automation, CI/CD improvements, monitoring, disaster recovery, and operational support across production
environments.
• Introduced DevOps engineering practices, automation strategies, and Agile collaboration models to improve deployment consistency and delivery
efficiency.
• Built and automated infrastructure provisioning and deployment processes, reducing manual operational overhead and improving environment
consistency.
• Managed platform reliability, incident response, service monitoring, and operational governance activities across distributed systems.
• Developed disaster recovery and business continuity strategies supporting high availability and operational resilience requirements.
• Mentored engineers and managed technical support and operational processes across international teams and on-call environments.
• Collaborated closely with engineering, product, and business stakeholders to align platform delivery with organisational objectives and customer
requirements.

• Led international cloud infrastructure and platform strategy across EMEA, supporting large-scale digital education platforms used by government and
private education sectors.
• Acted as the senior technical authority for international infrastructure delivery, balancing scalability, localisation, performance optimisation, compliance,
and operational resilience across multiple regions.
• Delivered cloud transformation and infrastructure modernisation initiatives to improve platform availability, disaster recovery capability, and service
reliability.
• Defined operational governance standards, infrastructure best practices, and security controls across international deployments and hosting
environments.
• Improved digital content delivery architecture supporting thousands of educational institutions through enhanced hosting models, infrastructure
standardisation, and scalable platform design.
• Partnered with senior business stakeholders, vendors, and delivery teams to align infrastructure capabilities with commercial and operational objectives.
• Supported cost optimisation initiatives across cloud infrastructure and hosting services through improved utilisation, governance, and resource lifecycle
management.
• Led cross-functional technical teams and third-party providers across multiple international programmes and infrastructure projects.
• Drove operational improvements across monitoring, support processes, incident management, and platform reliability practices.

• Managed enterprise infrastructure, networking, and systems administration across large-scale educational media environments supporting business
critical digital services.
• Administered Windows and Linux server environments, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, VPNs, firewalls, SQL platforms, and enterprise networking
infrastructure.
• Delivered virtualisation and data centre modernisation initiatives using VMware ESX/ESXi technologies to improve scalability, resilience, and operational
efficiency.
• Implemented load balancing, caching, and high-availability solutions using F5 and NGINX technologies to improve platform performance and reliability.
• Supported disaster recovery, backup management, and business continuity planning across infrastructure and hosted services.
• Designed and maintained internal OpenStack environments supporting development and testing infrastructure requirements.
• Configured and managed enterprise networking hardware including HP and Cisco routing and switching infrastructure.
• Supported data center operations, infrastructure lifecycle management, network security improvements, and operational support processes.
• Assisted with rollout of infrastructure standards, operational procedures, and network governance initiatives across enterprise environments.