Hyperscalers Architect (Preferably Saudi)

swatX Solutions; Saudi Arabia; On-site; USD 80,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in cloud solutions is seeking a Cloud Solutions Architect to oversee enterprise architecture on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Google Cloud Platform. The role includes designing secure, scalable cloud architectures and establishing governance frameworks while mentoring engineers. Candidates should have a strong background in cloud engineering with significant experience in OCI and GCP, alongside relevant certifications.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on cloud engineering experience.
• 5+ years in solution architecture roles focused on OCI and GCP.
• Relevant certifications preferred (OCI Architect Professional, GCP Professional Cloud Architect).

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture, design, and governance of enterprise cloud platforms on OCI and GCP.
• Develop High-Level and Low-Level design artifacts for OCI and GCP.
• Facilitate workshops and mentor engineers on best practices.

Skills

OCI Architecture

GCP Architecture

Cloud Networking

Automation

Security Compliance

Monitoring & Optimization

Advisory & Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Jenkins

PowerShell

OCI Monitoring

GCP Monitoring

Job description

Job Purpose:The Cloud Solutions Architect – OCI & GCP leads the end-to-end architecture, design, and governance of enterprise cloud platforms on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Google Cloud Platform. You’ll translate business requirements into secure, scalable cloud Architecture, establish standards and automation frameworks, and champion best practices for cloud adoption.

Key Responsibilities

1. Solution Architecture & Design

• Develop High-Level (HLD) and Low-Level (LLD) design artifacts and reference architectures for OCI and GCP services.
• Perform capacity planning, sizing exercises, and cost/ROI analyses to guide strategic cloud initiatives.

Infrastructure as Code & Automation

• Architect and maintain Terraform modules, Deployment Manager templates, and Ansible/PowerShell scripts for provisioning compute, networking, storage, and VMware SDDCs (OCVS).
• Build CI/CD pipelines (Cloud Build, Jenkins, GitLab CI) for image creation, configuration drift remediation, and automated deployments.

Performance, Cost & Capacity Optimization

• Design monitoring solutions (OCI Monitoring & Logging, GCP Cloud Monitoring/Logging) with dashboards and alerts for proactive scaling, performance tuning, and cost management.
• Conduct regular right-sizing reviews and recommend committed-use or sustained-use discounts.

Security & Compliance

• Define and enforce security guardrails, micro segmentation strategies (NSG, Security Lists, NSX-T), and policy-as-code (OPA, Config Rules, Sentinel).
• Integrate enterprise IAM (OCI IAM, GCP IAM) and KMS/Cloud KMS for data encryption and access control.

Governance & Standards

• Establish cloud governance frameworks, naming conventions, and change-control processes.
• Lead architecture review boards and maintain an enterprise reference-architecture library.

Cross-Functional Leadership & Enablement

• Facilitate workshops and design reviews with application, networking, security, and operations teams to validate interoperability and compliance.
• Mentor engineers, peer-review HLD/LLD artifacts, and author runbooks and best-practice guides for ongoing operations.

Migration & Modernization.

• Plan and execute lift-and-shift and modernization efforts, including VMware/OCVS migrations and cloud-native transformations, ensuring minimal downtime and reliable rollback strategies.

Required Skills & Qualifications

Competency Area

Details

OCI Architecture

VCN design, DRG/VCN peering, Bastion, NSG vs. Security Lists, OCI FSDR, OCVS SDDC design

GCP Architecture

VPC design, Shared VPC, Cloud VPN/Interconnect, Cloud Router, IAM roles/folders, GKE networking

Cross-Cloud Networking

FastConnect, Cloud VPN, VPN tunnels, transit gateway equivalents

Migration & Modernization

Lift-and-shift (HCX, VMware/OCVS → cloud), refactoring to cloud-native services, database migrations (Autonomous DB → Cloud SQL)

IaC & Automation

Terraform (OCI & GCP providers), Deployment Manager, Ansible, PowerShell DSC, Cloud Build, Jenkins/GitLab CI

Monitoring & Optimization

OCI Monitoring/Logging, GCP Cloud Monitoring/Logging, vROps dashboards, cost analysis tools

Security & Compliance

OCI IAM/Compartments, GCP IAM, KMS/Cloud KMS, micro segmentation (NSX-T), policy-as-code

Advisory & Leadership

Leading architecture reviews, client-facing workshops, stakeholder briefings, mentoring and knowledge transfer

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field.
• Minimum 10+ years of hands-on cloud engineering, with 5+ years in solution-architecture roles focused on OCI and GCP.
• Proven record of delivering enterprise-scale cloud deployments and modernization projects.

OCI Architect Professional and GCP Professional Cloud Architect certifications are preferred.