Senior Cloud Architect Permanent
Senior Cloud Architect
Location: Saudi Arabia
Employment Type: Permanent
Salary: 25K Sar MAX
Job Summary
We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Cloud Architect to lead the design and delivery of secure, scalable, and highly available cloud solutions. This role will be responsible for defining cloud strategy, architecting enterprise-grade solutions, and ensuring alignment with business objectives across multi-cloud and hybrid environments.
You will work closely with technical and business stakeholders to design robust architectures and drive best practices across cloud adoption, modernisation, and transformation initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
Cloud Strategy & Architecture
- Define and implement enterprise cloud strategy aligned with business goals
- Design scalable, secure, and highly available cloud architectures
- Lead solution architecture across multi-cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) and hybrid environments
Solution Design & Delivery
- Architect end-to-end cloud solutions, including infrastructure, applications, and integrations
- Design multi-tier, distributed systems across cloud and on-premise environments
- Ensure solutions meet performance, security, and availability requirements
Governance & Best Practices
- Establish and enforce cloud architecture standards and best practices
- Ensure compliance with security, governance, and regulatory requirements
- Define frameworks for cost optimisation, scalability, and resilience
Technology Leadership
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to engineering and DevOps teams
- Support software development methodologies and cloud-native design principles
- Drive adoption of modern architectures (microservices, containers, serverless)
Stakeholder Management
- Collaborate with business, IT, and external partners to translate requirements into solutions
- Present architectural designs and recommendations to senior stakeholders
- Support pre-sales, planning, and transformation initiatives
Required Skills & Experience
- 8–12+ years of experience in cloud architecture and solution design
- Strong expertise in AWS, Azure, and/or GCP (multi-cloud preferred)
- Proven experience designing enterprise-scale, distributed, multi-tier applications
- Strong understanding of:
- Cloud architecture frameworks and best practices
- Hybrid and multi-cloud environments
- Security, networking, and governance models
Preferred Qualifications
- Cloud certifications (AWS Solutions Architect, Azure Architect, GCP Professional Architect)
- Experience with DevOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible)
- Experience with containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud-native architectures
- Background in enterprise transformation or large-scale cloud migration programs
Key Competencies
- Strategic thinking with strong technical depth
- Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills
- Ability to lead and influence technical teams
- Strong problem-solving and solution-oriented mindset
Working Model
- Based in Saudi Arabia
Collaboration with regional and global teams