Senior DevOps Architect

NMD Placement Consultancy; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 562,000 - 787,000; Full time

Job summary

NMD Placement Consultancy seeks an experienced DevOps Architect to design, implement, and govern scalable, secure cloud infrastructure across OCI and AWS. You will lead CI/CD, IaC, containerization, observability, and security strategies while collaborating with application, security, and development teams.

You will architect multi-cloud solutions, establish deployment patterns, and drive modernization initiatives.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience designing scalable, secure multi-cloud architectures.
• Proficient with OCI and AWS services and governance.
• Expertise in IaC, CI/CD, and container orchestration.
• Strong collaboration with security, infra, and development teams.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable, secure cloud architectures across OCI and AWS.
• Define standards, landing zones, deployment patterns.
• Architect compute, networking, storage, IAM, and monitoring.
• Develop cloud migration and modernization strategies.
• Implement multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud architectures.

Skills

Cloud design

OCI & AWS

CI/CD pipelines

Security DevSecOps

Leadership

Collaboration

Observability

SRE practices

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

OKE

Job description

Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced DevOps Architect to design, implement, and govern highly scalable, secure, automated, and resilient cloud infrastructure across OCI and AWS. The role will be responsible for defining DevOps architecture, cloud adoption strategies, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, containerization, observability, security, and automation.

The ideal candidate should have strong hands-on expertise in both OCI and AWS, along with the ability to provide technical leadership and collaborate with application, security, infrastructure, and development teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable, highly available and secure cloud architectures across OCI and AWS.
• Define cloud infrastructure standards, reference architectures, landing zones and deployment patterns.
• Architect solutions involving compute, networking, storage, databases, IAM, load balancing and monitoring.
• Develop cloud migration and modernization strategies.
• Evaluate OCI and AWS services and recommend appropriate solutions based on business and technical requirements.
• Implement multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud architectures where required.

DevOps & CI/CD

• Design and implement enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines for application and infrastructure deployments.
• Automate build, test, release and deployment processes.
• Implement DevSecOps practices throughout the software delivery lifecycle.
• Establish branching, version-control, release and deployment strategies.
• Integrate automated security, code quality and vulnerability checks into CI/CD pipelines.

Infrastructure as Code & Automation

• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and/or other automation frameworks.
• Automate provisioning and configuration of OCI and AWS resources.
• Implement reusable modules, templates and deployment standards.
• Use scripting and automation tools such as Python, Shell/Bash or PowerShell.
• Architect and manage containerized environments using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with OCI Kubernetes Engine (OKE) and Amazon EKS.
• Design container orchestration, scaling, networking, security and deployment strategies.
• Implement Helm-based deployments and Kubernetes configuration management.

OCI Expertise

• Strong knowledge of OCI services including:
• Compute
• Load Balancer
• Object Storage
• IAM
• Autonomous Database / Oracle Database
• OKE
• OCI Registry
• OCI DevOps
• Logging and Monitoring
• Vault and Key Management
• Experience designing secure OCI networking and enterprise cloud environments.

AWS Expertise

• Strong knowledge of AWS services including:
• EC2
• VPC
• IAM
• S3
• RDS
• EKS
• ECS
• Lambda
• CloudFormation
• CloudWatch
• ELB/ALB
• Route 53
• AWS CodePipeline / CodeBuild / CodeDeploy
• Experience designing highly available and fault-tolerant AWS architectures.

Security & Governance

• Implement cloud security, IAM, secrets management and least-privilege access.
• Establish security and compliance controls across OCI and AWS.
• Work closely with cybersecurity teams to implement DevSecOps practices.
• Implement vulnerability management, security scanning and policy enforcement.
• Ensure cloud environments comply with organizational and regulatory standards.

Monitoring & Reliability

• Design centralized monitoring, logging, alerting and observability solutions.
• Implement performance monitoring and infrastructure/application health checks.
• Establish SRE, availability, disaster recovery and business continuity practices.
• Define SLIs, SLOs and operational KPIs where applicable.
• Lead technical discussions and provide architectural guidance to DevOps and cloud engineering teams.
• Review existing infrastructure and identify opportunities for automation and optimization.
• Prepare architecture diagrams, technical documentation and implementation standards.
• Mentor engineers and promote DevOps best practices.
• Collaborate with development, QA, security, infrastructure and business teams.