GCP Cloud Architect

Salary – SAR 25,000 – SAR 45,000 Per Month

Start Date – ASAP

Interview Process – 3 Rounds

The client are a global leader in AI-powered, automation-driven, application-centric managed services and cloud infrastructure, delivering Sovereign and Secure Industry Hybrid Cloud solutions across 25 countries. Headquartered in Singapore, Cloud4C supports 2500+ enterprises-including 50+ Global Fortune 1000 firms-with end-to-end transformation under a Single SLA covering cloud, cybersecurity, FinOps, and AI.

The client is looking for a technically strong, customer-facing architect who can balance business requirements, security/compliance expectations, operational practicality, and delivery timelines while guiding both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Role Summary

We are looking for experienced Cloud Architects to define, govern, and deliver enterprise-grade cloud solutions across Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform. The selected candidates will support ongoing/upcoming customer projects.

• 10+ years of overall IT/cloud experience, including significant architecture and customer-facing solution design experience.
• Primary certifications aligned to the vacancy:
• GCP roles: Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own end-to-end cloud solution architecture for assigned customer engagements.
• Design secure, scalable, and highly available Azure/GCP architectures, including landing zones, subscription/project structures, networking, identity, security, monitoring, and governance.
• Translate business and technical requirements into architecture decisions, HLDs, LLDs, reference designs, and implementation roadmaps.
• Lead design discussions for migration, modernization, hybrid cloud, multi-cloud integration, backup, disaster recovery, and resilience.
• Work with delivery teams to validate build approaches, review technical configurations, and support issue/risk resolution.
• Ensure architectures align with enterprise security, compliance, and operational standards, especially for banking/regulated customers.
• Support technical workshops, customer presentations, architecture walkthroughs, and steering discussions.
• Contribute to effort estimates, technical proposals, BoM inputs, design assumptions, and solution dependencies where required.
• Guide automation and Infrastructure as Code adoption using appropriate tools and reusable patterns.
• Mentor engineers/architects and help establish repeatable cloud architecture best practices.

Required Skill Sets:

• Strong architecture expertise in Azure and/or GCP, aligned to the assigned vacancy.
• GCP track: strong knowledge of organization/project structure, IAM, VPC/Shared VPC, firewalling, VPN/Interconnect concepts, Private Service Connect concepts, Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, load balancing, logging/monitoring, backup, and resilience
• Proven capability in high-level and low-level design documentation.
• Experience with cloud governance, security baseline design, HA/DR, RTO/RPO-driven architecture, and operational handover.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code and automation patterns using Terraform, Bicep/ARM, scripts, and CI/CD principles.
• Strong stakeholder management and customer communication skills.

Nice to have:

• Experience delivering cloud architecture for banking, financial services, or other regulated enterprises.
• Exposure to cloud migration programs, application modernization, platform engineering, and enterprise security tooling.
• Experience supporting presales, solutioning, technical workshops, and architecture governance boards.
• Working understanding of cost optimization/FinOps, observability, and operational excellence models.

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