Senior Infrastructure & Multi-Cloud Automation / IaC Engineer - Riyadh, KSA

Role Purpose

Infrastructure & Multi-Cloud Automation

• Design and implement Infrastructure-as-Code templates for OCI, GCP, SIT, private cloud, VMware/VCF, and systems environments.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning across cloud, virtualization, and systems platforms.
• Build reusable automation templates for compute, network, IAM, storage integration, monitoring onboarding, and backup onboarding.
• Standardize automation patterns using Terraform, Ansible, scripts, and platform-native tools.
• Reduce manual provisioning and repetitive operational tasks across infrastructure towers.
• Support automation for VM lifecycle, cloud resource provisioning, patching workflows, and operational handovers.
• Support limited CI/CD or pipeline usage only where required for infrastructure automation workflows.

Cloud Asset Management & Inventory

• Own cloud infrastructure asset management automation across OCI, GCP, SIT, and private cloud environments.
• Maintain automated cloud inventory and resource discovery workflows.
• Identify orphaned, unused, unattached, or underutilized cloud resources.
• Automate reporting and controlled cleanup workflows for orphaned objects, subject to approval and change control.
• Implement tagging standards for ownership, environment, cost center, service, criticality, lifecycle status, and business owner.
• Support cloud resource lifecycle management from provisioning to decommissioning.
• Integrate cloud asset data with CMDB / ServiceNow where applicable.
• Generate regular cloud inventory, utilization, hygiene, and optimization reports.
• Support FinOps reporting by identifying waste, idle resources, and optimization opportunities.
• Ensure automation templates enforce standard naming, tagging, and governance policies.

Governance, Documentation & Operational Integration

• Define automation standards, reusable templates, coding practices, and operational runbooks.
• Support integration between automation workflows, ITSM, monitoring, and operational processes.
• Work with Storage, Backup, Virtualization, Cloud, and Systems towers to identify automation opportunities.
• Review and approve automation code, scripts, and templates.
• Guide junior automation engineers and tower engineers on automation practices.
• Ensure automation activities follow change management and approval processes.
• Maintain version-controlled repositories for infrastructure automation assets.
• **Requirements*** 7+ years of experience in infrastructure, cloud, virtualization, systems, or automation roles.
• Strong hands-on experience with Terraform and Ansible.
• Experience automating infrastructure across at least two of the following: OCI, GCP, VMware/VCF, private cloud, Windows, Linux.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure operations, provisioning, patching, monitoring, lifecycle management, and operational governance.
• Experience with cloud landing zones, IAM, networking, compute, storage, and monitoring automation.
• Experience in cloud asset inventory, tagging governance, and resource lifecycle management.
• Experience identifying orphaned cloud resources such as unused disks, unattached IPs, idle VMs, orphan snapshots, unused buckets, stale accounts/projects, and unused network objects.
• Good scripting skills using Python, PowerShell, Bash, or similar.
• Familiarity with Git and version control for automation templates.
• Understanding of ITSM, ServiceNow, change management, and operational approval workflows.
• Ability to design reusable automation frameworks, not only standalone scripts.

Preferred Experience

• Multi-cloud automation experience.
• VMware / VCF automation exposure.
• OpenShift or Kubernetes infrastructure automation exposure.
• ServiceNow workflow or CMDB integration experience.
• Basic FinOps awareness.
• Basic CI/CD awareness for managing infrastructure automation pipelines, not application delivery.

Preferred Certifications

• HashiCorp Terraform Associate.
• Red Hat Ansible certification.
• Google Cloud certification.
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure certification.
• VMware certification.
• Red Hat / OpenShift certification is a plus.
• ITIL Foundation.