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Cloud Architect

JODAYN | جودين
Riyadh, KSA
Full-time
Mid-Senior
Onsite
Discovered 3 weeks ago
Enterprise cloud architectureCloud strategy and adoptionCloud landing zonesHybrid and multi-cloud architectureCloud migration and modernizationCloud networking and identity/access architecture

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Role overview

Defines and governs secure, scalable, resilient, cost-effective cloud and hybrid-cloud architectures.

Supports cloud strategy, adoption, landing zones, migration, modernization, governance, security, platform services, and enterprise integration.

Aligns cloud solutions with enterprise architecture, business priorities, security, regulatory obligations, and operational standards.

Architecture and delivery

  • Develop enterprise cloud architecture, cloud strategy, adoption approaches, target states, reference architectures, principles, patterns, guardrails, and standards.
  • Design cloud landing zones and public, private, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments.
  • Assess workloads and define migration and modernization approaches, including rehost, replatform, refactor, replace, retire, or retain where applicable.
  • Design networking, connectivity, identity, access, security, logging, monitoring, operational, cloud-native, container, Kubernetes, serverless, managed-service, and platform architecture.
  • Define resilience, availability, backup, disaster recovery, business continuity, and performance requirements.
  • Embed cybersecurity, privacy, regulatory, and compliance requirements; support governance, account structures, policy enforcement, tagging, and FinOps.
  • Collaborate across application, integration, data, security, infrastructure, DevOps, and architecture teams; conduct reviews and assess standards compliance.
  • Support platform selection, technology and vendor evaluation, proofs of concept, risk identification, and mitigation.

Required experience

  • Minimum 8–10 years in infrastructure, cloud engineering, systems engineering, solution architecture, or related technology disciplines.
  • At least 4–5 years of hands-on Cloud Architecture or comparable senior cloud design experience.
  • Enterprise-scale cloud and hybrid-cloud design experience, including migration, modernization, landing zones, governance, security, networking, and identity.
  • Experience supporting large-scale cloud or digital transformation programs and working with technology teams, cybersecurity teams, vendors, and senior stakeholders.

Core competencies

  • Enterprise cloud architecture, cloud strategy and adoption, landing zones, hybrid and multi-cloud, migration, modernization, and cloud-native architecture.
  • Cloud networking, identity and access, security and compliance, containers and Kubernetes, resilience, backup, and disaster recovery.
  • Cloud governance, policy management, architecture assurance, and FinOps cost optimization.

Preferred frameworks and tools

  • Preferred frameworks and methods include TOGAF, ArchiMate, AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud well-architected frameworks, cloud adoption frameworks, Zero Trust, DevOps, DevSecOps, and Infrastructure as Code.
  • Preferred cloud platforms include Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, or equivalent; tools include Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation, and CI/CD platforms.
  • Enterprise architecture tools may include Bizzdesign, Sparx Enterprise Architect, Orbus/iServer, ARIS, or similar.

Preferred qualifications

  • A relevant bachelor’s degree is preferred.
  • Professional-level cloud architecture certification is highly desirable; TOGAF certification is desirable.
  • Relevant cloud security, Kubernetes, DevOps, or infrastructure certifications are advantageous.

Personal attributes

Strong analytical and systems-thinking capability; translates business and technology needs into pragmatic architecture decisions.

Strong communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management; works across architecture, security, infrastructure, application, data, and DevOps teams.

Focuses on architecture quality, security, scalability, resilience, and cost effectiveness; supports complex transformation programs and multiple stakeholders.

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