Summary
Olayan Saudi Holding Company is seeking a Senior Cloud Architect in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The role designs and governs secure, scalable cloud architectures and leads enterprise cloud migration and modernization initiatives across GCP, Azure, and OCI. Responsibilities include establishing cloud landing zones, implementing infrastructure automation and DevOps practices, and ensuring governance, security, resilience, and operational readiness. Applicants should have a relevant bachelor's degree, at least six years of related experience, and hands-on experience with cloud platforms, Terraform, containers, and CI/CD; cloud certifications are listed as required or preferred.
The posting
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Role Purpose
Responsible for designing, governing, and delivering secure, scalable, and resilient cloud solutions across public cloud platforms. The role supports enterprise cloud transformation by defining cloud architecture strategies, leading migration and modernization initiatives, establishing cloud foundations, and enabling DevOps practices that ensure reliable, automated, and secure service delivery while aligning with business and technology objectives.
Job Accountabilities & Activities
Operations
- Design end-to-end cloud architectures for enterprise workloads and cloud-native applications across Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
- Lead enterprise cloud migration and modernization initiatives using industry best practices and structured migration frameworks.
- Define and implement cloud landing zones that meet governance, security, compliance, and operational requirements.
- Ensure operational readiness through monitoring, logging, observability, disaster recovery, and reliability best practices.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform or equivalent automation tools.
- Support the implementation of DevOps and platform engineering practices, including CI/CD pipelines and release automation.
Planning
- Develop cloud architecture strategies aligned with organizational objectives and technology roadmaps.
- Define migration approaches, including rehost, replatform, refactor, rebuild, and replace strategies, based on business and technical requirements.
- Evaluate cloud solutions and recommend scalable, secure, and cost-effective architecture designs.
- Contribute to cloud adoption roadmaps and modernization plans.
Development
- Design and implement cloud infrastructure solutions using cloud-native services and automation technologies.
- Develop reusable cloud architecture patterns, standards, and deployment frameworks.
- Promote DevOps, DevSecOps, containerization, and automation best practices across projects.
- Support continuous improvement of cloud platforms and infrastructure capabilities.
Stakeholder Management
- Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance throughout cloud migration and transformation projects.
- Collaborate with Cloud Engineering, Infrastructure, Security, and DevOps teams to deliver integrated cloud solutions.
- Support pre-sales activities by conducting architecture workshops, developing solution designs, and contributing to technical proposals.
- Engage with customers and cloud service providers to align technical solutions with business requirements.
Governance & Compliance
- Ensure cloud architectures comply with organizational governance, security, and regulatory requirements.
- Promote cloud architecture standards, best practices, and enterprise design principles.
- Incorporate identity and access management (IAM), security controls, and resilience into solution designs.
Education & Certifications
Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or a related discipline.
Certifications
- Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect.
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert.
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect certification (preferred).
- HashiCorp Terraform Associate (preferred).
- Kubernetes certifications (CKA or CKAD) (preferred).
- Relevant DevOps or cloud engineering certifications are advantageous.
Required Years of Experience
- Minimum 6 years of experience in cloud architecture, cloud consulting, infrastructure engineering, or related roles.
- Proven experience leading enterprise-scale cloud migration and modernization initiatives.
- Hands-on experience with public cloud platforms, DevOps practices, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), containers (Docker, Kubernetes), and CI/CD implementation.