Mixed Martial Arts
Mohamed Shihab
Cloud Architect
Abu Dhabi
Summary
Passionate, credible and detail-oriented Cloud Architect with over a decade of solid experience designing, implementing and supporting enterprise-scale Azure cloud infrastructure with special focus on Security, Automation and High-Availability solutions. Excellent technical and management communication skills with customers and colleagues across the globe in diverse industries such as Oil and Gas, Pharmaceuticals and Finance.
Overview
4
4
Languages
1
1
Certification
5
5
years of post-secondary education
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Technology and Cloud Architect Lead
Emirates Nuclear Energy Company
06.2026 - Current
- Responsible for maintaining Cloud Landing Zone Architecture to support strategic objectives and cloud adoption goals
- Built scalable, secure, resilient cloud adoption framework enabling end-to-end cloud eligibility evaluation across financial, operational, security, delivery, and business value areas
- Lead and maintain current state baseline within target repository, executing assigned data collection, verification, reporting, and analysis.
Solution Architect
ADNOC on Payroll of Bespin Global
07.2024 - Current
- Lead a high-performing team of Azure cloud engineers focused on platform support, continuous enhancement, and operational excellence across a large-scale enterprise environment.
- Oversee the design, governance, and delivery of secure, scalable, and resilient Azure cloud solutions supporting mission-critical systems in the oil and gas sector
- Drive standardized infrastructure deployment using Azure DevOps pipelines integrated with Bicep modules, enabling consistent, repeatable, and compliant environment provisioning
- Champion Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and DevOps best practices to streamline deployments, reduce manual effort, and improve deployment quality and velocity
- Collaborate with enterprise architects, security, and app development teams to align platform strategy with organizational goals and regulatory requirements
- Provide strategic direction on cloud modernization initiatives, legacy migration, and cost optimization while ensuring high availability and performance
Consultant-Software Configuration and Development
Eli Lilly And Company
11.2021 - 06.2024
- Responsible for owning and managing Eli Lilly's Azure Landing Zone environment with more than 200 subscriptions
- Automated infrastructure deployments using CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions and Bicep templates to increase deployment speeds by 70%
- Highly proficient in Agile development methodology leveraging Jira
- Integrated security best-practices in every aspect of cloud solution using Azure's Cloud Adoption Framework
- Optimized Lilly's cloud security footprint using Policy-as-Code and Microsoft Defender for Cloud
- Responsible for onboarding, training and scaling team of cloud engineers from diverse backgrounds
Associate IT Consultant
ITC Infotech
04.2018 - 11.2021
- Expertise in architecting and implementing public cloud infrastructure in highly distributed environments for clients such as Coca-Cola European Partners, Crown Packaging etc
- Proficient in DevOps practices especially related to Azure DevOps, Git, GitHub, Jenkins (entry-level)
- Assist customers in simplifying cloud architecture by automation using Infrastructure-as-Code such as ARM templates, Terraform
- Undertook international project assignments in London and Birmingham for Allica Bank and Holland & Barrett Retail, respectively
Sr. Support Engineer
Microsoft India on payroll of Spectrum Consultants
08.2016 - 03.2018
- Key member of Azure CXP team resolving issues mainly in Azure Virtual Machines and Azure Storage
- Helped improve team’s overall response SLAs by fine-tuning customer engagement process
- Excellent with hands-on implementation and troubleshooting issues related to Azure IaaS and PaaS services
- Tested latest features such as Azure VM Scale Sets to provide critical product feedback to Azure Engineering/Product Groups
- Delivered internal trainings on latest features of Azure Virtual Machines to Ireland-based Azure Social team
Systems Engineer
Thomson Reuters
08.2013 - 08.2016
- Provided L2/L3 support including troubleshooting, administering and service restoration for Windows 2003, 2008/R2, and 2012/R2 operating systems
- Provide Problem Management support, including RCA (root cause analysis) for client impacting incidents and troubleshooting complex problems to fix root cause
- Directly involved in all stages of ITIL-based Incident, Change and Service Request management lifecycle for Windows Server issues
- Collaborated with L1 teams in troubleshooting various Wintel issues
- Possess excellent Windows OS troubleshooting skills leveraging software from Microsoft Sysinternals Suite
Education
Bachelors of Engineering - Information Science And Engineering
Nitte Meenakshi Institute of Technology
Bangalore 06.2008 - 04.2013
Skills
Azure: Compute, Storage, Networking and Entra ID
Enterprise Cloud Architecture
Azure Cloud Governance and Security
IaC, CI/CD and DevSecOps
ARM, Bicep and GitHub Actions
Windows Server Administration
Docker and Kubernetes
Agile Scrum/Jira
VS Code, LucidChart, Service Now
Certification
ITIL Foundation v2
Interests
Travel
Timeline
Technology and Cloud Architect Lead
Emirates Nuclear Energy Company
06.2026 - Current
Solution Architect
ADNOC on Payroll of Bespin Global
07.2024 - Current
Consultant-Software Configuration and Development
Eli Lilly And Company
11.2021 - 06.2024
Associate IT Consultant
ITC Infotech
04.2018 - 11.2021
Sr. Support Engineer
Microsoft India on payroll of Spectrum Consultants
08.2016 - 03.2018
Systems Engineer
Thomson Reuters
08.2013 - 08.2016
Bachelors of Engineering - Information Science And Engineering
Nitte Meenakshi Institute of Technology
06.2008 - 04.2013