Cloud and DevOps consultant for Qatar.
End-to-end cloud infrastructure, networking and delivery pipelines for Qatar government and financial teams, on Azure and Google Cloud in Doha, with NIA and QCB controls built in.
Built for Qatar
Regulated workloads, kept in the country.
In Qatar the questions come before the architecture: may this data leave the country, what will Qatar Central Bank ask about the provider, and how is continuity proven. I answer those first, then build the platform, the pipelines and the infrastructure as code around them.
Built for QCB cloud rules
Banks, insurers and payment providers regulated by Qatar Central Bank need a cloud platform that answers its Cloud Computing Regulation: due diligence on the provider, data residency, business continuity and evidence of control. I design the landing zone so those answers come from the platform itself.
NIA and PDPPL controls as code
Access, encryption, logging and network segmentation mapped to the National Information Assurance standard and the Personal Data Privacy Protection Law, then enforced with policy in your pipelines, so an audit reads the code and its history.
Doha regions first
Azure Qatar Central and the Google Cloud Doha region keep data in the country. Workloads are placed there first, with policies that block resources in other regions unless your rules allow them.
Continuity you can show
Backups, restore tests and failover runbooks designed around in-country data, with recovery objectives agreed up front and tested, so business continuity is a result you can show a regulator, not a document.
Hosting in Qatar
In-country regions for Qatar data.
QCB and NIA requirements decide where data may live. The platform is designed around that, then the provider and region are chosen to match.
- Microsoft Azure
- Qatar Central, in Doha, with three availability zones.
- Google Cloud
- The Doha region (me-central1), in-country.
- AWS
- No Qatar region. Bahrain and the UAE are the nearest, used only where your rules allow data outside Qatar.
Provider regions change. Availability of each service is checked for your workloads before anything is committed.
How the work runs
Remote delivery on Doha hours.
I work from Karachi, two hours ahead of Doha, across the Sunday to Thursday week. Design reviews, change windows and incident calls happen live, inside your working day.
Every engagement starts with a written scope: deliverables, decisions, milestones and the price basis. The work happens in your own accounts and repositories, so everything built is yours.
For a bank or insurer, the first deliverable is often the material for the cloud decision itself: the target architecture, a map of where each data set lives and moves, and the continuity design with its recovery objectives. That gives your risk and compliance teams something concrete to assess before anything is built.
Karachi
UTC+5
Doha
UTC+3
Dubai
UTC+4
Solutions
Solutions for Qatar teams.
- Cloud infrastructureEnd-to-end, cloud-native infrastructure on any major cloud. Architecture, networking, DevOps delivery and security, through to handover.
- Security & zero trustControls built into the platform rather than added after it.
- AI platform infrastructureSecure enterprise patterns for AI workloads: model access, identity, cost and governance.
- Enterprise CMS hostingSitecore, Umbraco, Kentico, Optimizely and ERP platforms hosted, deployed and operated on cloud properly.
Proof
Comparable platform work.
FinTech · AWS
Zero-trust AWS controls that took a FinTech to SOC 2 Type II in 8 weeks with no audit findings.
Enterprise deals depended on SOC 2 Type II, and the existing estate had shared secrets in code, permissive IAM and no audit trail. I designed and implemented the identity, network, secrets and audit controls, and the external audit closed with zero findings.
AWSSecrets ManagerIAMVPC endpointsRead the case studyB2B Software · Kubernetes
Observability and SLOs that cut detection time from 90 minutes to 5 and freed a fifth of engineering time.
A six-person team ran production with no visibility: incidents took hours to detect and 40% of engineering time went to firefighting. I built the observability stack, defined SLOs and burn-rate alerting, and wrote the runbooks. Detection fell to 5 minutes and the team got 20% of its time back.
KubernetesPrometheusGrafanaOpenTelemetryRead the case study
FAQ
Working with a consultant in Qatar.
Still have a question? Ask me directly. I reply within one business day.
How do you work with Qatar teams?
Remotely, on the Qatar working week from Sunday to Thursday. Karachi is two hours ahead of Doha, so the whole Doha working day is covered live. The work runs in your own cloud accounts and repositories, and every decision is written down so your team can carry on without me.
Where are you based?
I am based in Karachi, Pakistan and work remotely with teams across the GCC. I do not claim a Qatar office or a Qatar entity.
Which cloud providers can keep data in Qatar?
Microsoft Azure (Qatar Central) and Google Cloud (Doha) both run regions in the country. AWS has no Qatar region today, with its nearest regions in Bahrain and the UAE, so it fits only workloads your rules allow outside Qatar. Service availability in each region is checked for your workloads before anything is committed.
Do you help with QCB and NIA compliance?
I implement the technical controls that the QCB Cloud Computing Regulation and the NIA standard ask for, as code, and map each one to the requirement. Policy, regulator submissions and certification stay with your compliance team and auditors.
Does the QCB regulation allow public cloud?
It sets conditions rather than a ban: a cloud strategy, due diligence on the provider, controls over data handling and residency, and tested continuity. The platform is built so each condition has evidence behind it. How the regulation applies to your licence is confirmed by your compliance team.
We already have a systems integrator in Doha. Where do you fit?
Usually as the cloud architect and platform engineer inside their delivery: the landing zone, the pipelines and the security controls, written up so their operations team can run it. If you need more people or a 24×7 service, Cloudlit can take that on.
Need a full team or 24×7 operations?
Team-scale delivery is with Cloudlit.
Cloudlit designs, builds and runs cloud and AI infrastructure for banks, government and enterprises: cloud architecture, DevOps automation, Red Hat OpenShift and 24×7 managed operations. When an engagement needs more than one engineer, that is where it is delivered.
Contact
Tell me about the platform.
Tell me what you are building or where your platform is under strain. I read every enquiry myself and reply within one business day.
What happens next
- 01A 30-minute call about your platform and what has to change.
- 02A short written view of the risk and the next step, whether or not we work together.
- 03If it fits, a fixed-scope proposal with deliverables, timeline and price basis.
Prefer to just talk?
Book a 30-minute discovery call, or send a message on WhatsApp. No obligation, no pitch deck.
Or email directly: [email protected] or WhatsApp: +92 332 3600677
Based in Karachi, Pakistan. Working with teams in the UAE and Saudi Arabia.