Senior Principal Google Cloud Engineer (MUST have Terraform and Ansible Experience)

About This Role

Company Description

C-9INE accelerates companies' journeys to market with its cutting-edge, AI-driven C9 software stack. Offering pre-built foundational blocks for Front End, Web, Backend, Quality Assurance, and Cloud Platform Engineering, C-9INE provides startups and organisations with tools to streamline development while enhancing delivery through DevOps, Agile practices, and organisational design playbooks. The turnkey solution integrates top-tier technologies for application security, compliance, observability, CI/CD, and DevSecOps to support seamless project execution. Leveraging AI as a helper tool, C-9INE prioritises automating repetitive tasks to improve efficiency and outcomes.

Role Description

This is a full-time role based in Riyadh and Makkah. As a Senior Principal Google Cloud Engineer, you will design, implement, and maintain GCP cloud infrastructure and solutions to meet organisational needs. Responsibilities include managing cloud-based services, optimising cloud performance, ensuring system security, provisioning resources, and supporting cloud-native application deployment and migrations from others private/public clouds and DC's. The role also involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, reliable, resilient solutions aligned with company objectives.

Qualifications

• Expert-level skills in building, designing, and deploying GCP/AWS/OCI/based workloads
• High proficiency in GCP Infrastructure and GKE Computing, including provisioning and managing scalable GCP cloud environments through automation Infrastructure as code and Ansible. THIS IS A MUST HAVE!
• Expert-level hands-on experience of Datacentre to GCP migration or Other public cloud to GCP migration using frameworks like 6R's
• Physical data centre experience with DHCP, TFTP, AUTOINSTALL, KICKSTART, PXE, NETWORKING, SUBNETS, ROUTING etc.
• 5+ years of client-facing experience to guide/help/onboard clients on use of GCP services.
• Expert-level knowledge in Linux/Windows system administration and management
• Hands-on experience of managing Databases (PostgreSQL/Mysql/Mongo/MSSQL) and their integration within cloud platforms
• Expert-level hands-on experience working with the Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Landing Zone, VPC's, HA VPN, Big Query, GCE, App Engine, CloudSQL, Cloud LB's, IAM, Monitoring and Logging, Native firewalls + Palo Alto, Fortinet.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, preferably from a Software Engineering background.
• Professional certifications in cloud computing or Google Cloud technologies are an advantage; however, hands-on experience is a MUST.
• Someone who prefers to Automate and manage infra with code rather than manually doing things!
• Efficient communicator with depth of perception and strategic thinking.
• Arabic language is a huge PLUS.

C-9INE offers a fast-paced, high-expectation environment where you’ll be challenged to grow, perform at your best, and consistently exceed goals. We invest heavily in training and development so you can build deep, multi-disciplinary expertise and become highly skilled across multiple areas of cloud and platform engineering.

Location: Riyadh, KSA

Start date: Immediate (March/April)

Salary: Negotiable.