GCP Cloud Architect

Salt; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 279,000 - 502,000; Full time

Job summary

Salt is seeking an experienced GCP Cloud Architect to define and govern enterprise cloud solutions across Azure and GCP for strategic, customer-facing engagements. You will balance business needs with security/compliance, operational practicality, and delivery timelines, guiding both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities include end-to-end architecture, landing zones, migration planning, multi-cloud integration, and adherence to banking/regulatory standards, with emphasis on

Qualifications

• 6+ years IT/cloud experience with architecture and customer-facing design.
• Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect certification.
• Experience with migration, hybrid/multi-cloud projects and security/compliance controls.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end cloud solution architecture for assigned engagements.
• Design secure, scalable Azure/GCP architectures (landing zones, networking, identity, security, monitoring, governance).
• Translate requirements into architecture decisions, HLDs/LLDs and implementation roadmaps.
• Lead migration/modernization, hybrid and multi-cloud integration, backup and resilience.
• Collaborate with delivery teams to validate approaches and resolve issues/risks.
• Ensure architectures meet security/compliance standards, including regulated industries.
• Support workshops, architecture walkthroughs and customer communication.
• Contribute to proposals, BoM inputs and design assumptions.
• Guide Infrastructure as Code adoption using Terraform, Bicep/ARM; mentor peers.

Skills

Azure/GCP architecture

GCP architecture

Cloud security design

HA/DR design

Stakeholder management

CI/CD practices

Tools

Terraform

Bicep/ARM

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Client is only considering candidates based in Saudi on a transferable Iqama.

Job Title – GCP Cloud Architect

Salary – SAR 25,000 – SAR 45,000 Per Month

Start Date – ASAP

The client is a global leader in AI-powered, automation-driven, application-centric managed services and cloud infrastructure, delivering Sovereign and Secure Industry Hybrid Cloud solutions across 25 countries. Headquartered in Singapore, Cloud4C supports 2500+ enterprises—including 50+ Global Fortune 1000 firms with end-to-end transformation under SLA covering cloud, cybersecurity, FinOps, and AI.

The client is looking for a technically strong, customer-facing architect who can balance business requirements, security/compliance expectations, operational practicality, and delivery timelines while guiding both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Role Summary

They are looking for experienced Cloud Architects to define, govern, and deliver enterprise-grade cloud solutions across Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform. The selected candidates will support ongoing/upcoming customer projects.

• 6+ years of overall IT/cloud experience, including significant architecture and customer-facing solution design experience.
• Primary certifications aligned to the vacancy:
• GCP roles: Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect.

Key Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end cloud solution architecture for assigned customer engagements.
• Design secure, scalable, and highly available Azure/GCP architectures, including landing zones, subscription/project structures, networking, identity, security, monitoring, and governance.
• Translate business and technical requirements into architecture decisions, HLDs, LLDs, reference designs, and implementation roadmaps.
• Lead design discussions for migration, modernization, hybrid cloud, multi-cloud integration, backup, disaster recovery, and resilience.
• Work with delivery teams to validate build approaches, review technical configurations, and support issue/risk resolution.
• Ensure architectures align with enterprise security, compliance, and operational standards, especially for banking/regulated customers.
• Support technical workshops, customer presentations, architecture walkthroughs, and steering discussions.
• Contribute to effort estimates, technical proposals, BoM inputs, design assumptions, and solution dependencies where required.
• Guide automation and Infrastructure as Code adoption using appropriate tools and reusable patterns.
• Mentor engineers/architects and help establish repeatable cloud architecture best practices.

Required Skill Sets

• Strong architecture expertise in Azure and/or GCP, aligned to the assigned vacancy.
• GCP track: strong knowledge of organization/project structure, IAM, VPC/Shared VPC, firewalling, VPN/Interconnect concepts, Private Service Connect concepts, Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, load balancing, logging/monitoring, backup, and resilience
• Proven capability in high-level and low-level design documentation.
• Experience with cloud governance, security baseline design, HA/DR, RTO/RPO-driven architecture, and operational handover.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code and automation patterns using Terraform, Bicep/ARM, scripts, and CI/CD principles.
• Strong stakeholder management and customer communication skills.