Hyperscalers Architect

Marc Ellis; Saudi Arabia; Remote; SAR 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading cloud solutions firm in Saudi Arabia is seeking a Cloud Solutions Architect to lead the design and governance of enterprise cloud environments across Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Google Cloud Platform. Candidates should have over 10 years of hands-on experience in cloud engineering, with a strong focus on OCI and GCP architecture. Professional certifications in OCI and GCP are advantageous. This role involves architecture design, cloud migration strategies, and collaboration with various teams.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on experience in cloud infrastructure and engineering roles.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in cloud solution architecture, focusing on OCI and GCP.
• Professional certifications in OCI Architect Professional and GCP Professional Cloud Architect are highly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop High-Level and Low-Level design documents for OCI and GCP solutions.
• Design and manage Terraform modules for provisioning cloud environments.
• Architect monitoring systems leveraging OCI and GCP.
• Plan and execute cloud migration strategies.

Skills

OCI Architecture

GCP Architecture

Cross-Cloud Networking

Migration & Modernization

IaC & Automation

Monitoring & Optimization

Security & Compliance

Advisory & Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field

Tools

Terraform

CI/CD tools like Cloud Build, Jenkins, GitLab CI

Ansible

PowerShell DSC

Job description

Job Purpose

The Cloud Solutions Architect – OCI & GCP is responsible for leading the architecture, design, and governance of enterprise cloud environments across Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Google Cloud Platform. This role translates complex business and technical requirements into secure, scalable, and cost-efficient cloud architectures. You will establish standards, implement automation frameworks, and drive best practices for enterprise cloud adoption and modernization.

Key Responsibilities

1. Solution Architecture & Design

• Develop High-Level (HLD) and Low-Level (LLD) design documents and reference architectures for OCI and GCP solutions.
• Conduct capacity planning, performance sizing, and TCO/ROI assessments to inform strategic cloud decisions.

2. Infrastructure as Code (IaC) & Automation

• Design and manage Terraform modules, Deployment Manager templates, and Ansible/PowerShell scripts for provisioning compute, network, storage, and VMware SDDC environments (OCVS).
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Cloud Build, Jenkins, or GitLab CI for automated deployments, image builds, and configuration compliance.

3. Performance, Cost & Capacity Optimization

• Architect monitoring and alerting systems leveraging OCI Monitoring & Logging and GCP Cloud Monitoring/Logging.
• Perform ongoing right-sizing and recommend cost-saving strategies such as committed-use and sustained-use discounts.

4. Security & Compliance

• Define and implement security guardrails, microsegmentation strategies (e.g., NSG, Security Lists, NSX-T), and enforce policy-as-code using tools such as OPA, Sentinel, and Config Rules.
• Integrate cloud platforms with enterprise IAM (OCI IAM, GCP IAM) and encryption solutions (OCI KMS, Cloud KMS) to ensure data protection and access control.

5. Governance & Standards

• Establish and maintain cloud governance frameworks, naming conventions, tagging standards, and change control procedures.
• Lead architecture review boards and maintain a centralized library of enterprise cloud reference architectures.

6. Cross-Functional Leadership & Enablement

• Lead collaborative workshops and technical design sessions with application, networking, operations, and security teams to ensure solution alignment and compliance.
• Mentor engineering teams, perform technical reviews of HLD/LLD artifacts, and produce operational runbooks and best-practice documentation.

7. Cloud Migration & Modernization

• Plan and execute both lift-and-shift and cloud-native modernization strategies, including VMware/OCVS migrations.
• Design rollback and high-availability strategies to ensure minimal downtime and service continuity during cloud transitions.

Required Skills & Qualifications

Competency Area Expertise

OCI Architecture Design of VCNs, DRG/VCN peering, Bastion configurations, NSG vs. Security Lists, OCI Full Stack Disaster Recovery (FSDR), and OCVS SDDC deployments.

GCP Architecture VPC design, Shared VPC setup, Cloud VPN/Interconnect, Cloud Router configurations, IAM roles and hierarchy (folders/projects), GKE networking.

Cross-Cloud Networking Experience with FastConnect, VPN tunnels, transit gateway equivalents across OCI and GCP.

Migration & Modernization Lift-and-shift via HCX, VMware to OCVS migrations, refactoring workloads to cloud-native services, database migrations (e.g., Autonomous DB to Cloud SQL).

IaC & Automation Proficient in Terraform (OCI & GCP providers), Deployment Manager, Ansible, PowerShell DSC, CI/CD tools like Cloud Build, Jenkins, GitLab CI.

Monitoring & Optimization Implementation of OCI/GCP native monitoring and logging, vROps dashboard creation, and cost analysis tools.

Security & Compliance IAM policies, KMS integrations, NSX-T microsegmentation, and policy-as-code governance.

Advisory & Leadership Leading architecture review sessions, conducting stakeholder briefings, delivering client-facing workshops, mentoring, and driving knowledge transfer.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years of hands-on experience in cloud infrastructure and engineering roles.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in cloud solution architecture, with a focus on OCI and GCP.
• Demonstrated success in delivering enterprise-scale cloud deployments and modernization initiatives.
• Professional certifications in OCI Architect Professional and GCP Professional Cloud Architect are highly preferred.