Cloud Engineer

Job Title: Lead Cloud Engineer (Hybrid Cloud)

Industry: Financial Services

Level: Lead / Senior Role

Location: Riyadh, KSA

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Lead Cloud Engineer with 8+ years of experience and a strong background in financial services to define, own, and execute our hybrid cloud strategy . This is a lead technical role requiring deep, hands-on expertise across on-premise, hybrid, and cloud environments , with proven success delivering secure, compliant on-prem to cloud migrations in regulated environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture and management of hybrid cloud environments (on-prem + cloud)
• Own and execute on-prem to cloud migrations with minimal business risk
• Design secure cloud landing zones , networking, and identity integrations
• Optimize cloud cost, performance, reliability, and scalability
• Ensure high availability, resilience, security, and performance across cloud platforms
• Lead infrastructure lifecycle management , including capacity planning, patching, and upgrades
• Act as the senior technical authority for cloud and infrastructure decisions
• Drive Infrastructure as Code (IaC) adoption and automation practices
• Support CI/CD pipelines and modern application delivery models

Technical Skills

• VMware virtualization platforms
• Enterprise networking and security
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
• CI/CD tools and automation
• Scripting: PowerShell, Bash, Python
• Monitoring and logging platforms

Required Experience & Qualifications

• Minimum 8+ years of IT Infrastructure and Cloud experience
• Mandatory experience in the financial services industry
• Proven ownership of on-prem to cloud migrations
• Strong expertise in VMware and enterprise networking
• Hands-on experience with GCP
• Experience working in regulated, audit-driven environments