Eslam Soliman

Technology architecture and infrastructure leader with 16+ years across enterprise platforms, regulated payments, central-bank environments and multi-data-center services in Saudi Arabia and the GCC. Combines infrastructure architecture, cloud/hybrid design assurance, security architecture, Zero Trust assessment, resilience engineering and technology governance with direct accountability for critical production environments. Architecture judgment is grounded in operational consequences: availability, failover, recoverability, identity, network dependencies, security controls, monitoring, capacity, supportability, DR and business continuity.

Experienced reviewing implementation-partner and vendor designs, defining readiness/acceptance criteria, assessing architecture gaps and risks, and translating technical decisions into clear recommendations for senior stakeholders.

Associate Manager | Security Architecture & Delivery at DXC Technology, Cybersecurity BU (2025-08 – Present)

Lead architecture, assessment, transition and governance assignments for regulated financial-services customers, connecting infrastructure, cloud, identity, network and security requirements with delivery readiness and operating-model ownership.

• Bank Muscat, Security Architect & Delivery Lead (Jun-Sep 2026): led Security Architecture and Zero Trust assessment across infrastructure, IAM/PAM, network, data, endpoint, SIEM/SOAR, OpenShift and governance; consolidated current-state evidence, architecture dependencies, gaps and target-state recommendations.
• SAMA, Security Delivery Transition Lead (Aug 2025-Jan 2026): governed transition across nine security towers and a 25-person team; validated access, monitoring, documentation, service dependencies, continuity controls, handover readiness and BAU acceptance.
• Within SAMA, contributed to GCP landing-zone security-operability and readiness from a SecOps perspective, reviewing identity/access, logging/monitoring, security-control, network-dependency and service-ownership requirements rather than acting as the end-to-end cloud platform owner.
• Documented risks, exceptions, ownership gaps and mitigation actions for leadership decisions; coordinated cybersecurity, infrastructure, network and vendor SMEs in sensitive regulated environments.

Platforms Team Lead / Acting Lead / Senior Platforms Specialist at DXC Technology - Saudi Payments (2018-03 – 2025-07)

Led enterprise infrastructure for national payment services across Windows, Linux/AIX, VMware, storage, backup, monitoring, network coordination, DR and security hardening in a six-data-center environment.

• Provided architecture governance and operational design assurance for infrastructure, cloud and modernization initiatives; reviewed HLD/LLD and vendor proposals against availability, resilience, security, capacity, performance, monitoring, backup, supportability and production-readiness requirements.
• Assessed architecture assumptions, hosting and application dependencies, migration approach, cutover/rollback and operating-model impact with application, security, network, vendor and infrastructure teams before implementation.
• Led DR/BCP planning and recovery readiness, including backup/restore validation, RTO/RPO actions, test planning, change windows and operational handover; contributed capacity, procurement and lifecycle recommendations.
• Evaluated Nutanix HCI modernization following VMware licensing pressure, covering workload fit, dependencies, backup, DR, monitoring, rollback, support model and production acceptance.
• Supported eight years of PCI-DSS audit cycles and SAMA/NCA-related governance through infrastructure standards, hardening, vulnerability remediation, access/change evidence and recovery proof.

Technical Team Lead at DXC Technology - Binladin Holding Group (2015-07 – 2018-01)

Led a 10-member enterprise infrastructure team across Windows, identity, virtualization, storage, network coordination and service continuity; supported architecture, lifecycle, vendor, capacity and security-control decisions.

• Worked with delivery and business stakeholders to translate requirements into infrastructure changes, implementation plans, continuity controls and support models.

Senior Systems Engineer, Presales at Advanced Computer Technology (ACT) (2014-02 – 2015-06)

Translated customer requirements into Microsoft infrastructure, virtualization, identity and cloud-adjacent solution designs; produced HLD/LLD inputs, RFP responses, POC plans, deployment approaches and technical presentations.

• Owned or coordinated POCs and success criteria, evaluating integration, security, implementation risk, operational impact, supportability and long-term value with customer and sales teams.

Enterprise Microsoft Systems Engineer at Networkers LLC / New Horizons (2009 – 2014)

Enterprise Microsoft systems engineering and 100+ technical training engagements across Windows Server, Active Directory, Exchange, Office 365 and virtualization, building strong workshop, mentoring and knowledge-transfer capability.

Bachelor in Computer Science & Engineering – Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Egypt (2009)