GCP Cloud Architect

**HIRING** - Client is only considering candidates based in Saudi on a transferable Iqama.Job Title – GCP Cloud Architect Salary – SAR 25,000 – SAR 45,000 Per Month Location – Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Start Date – ASAP The client is 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 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 They 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.6+ 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 resilienceProven 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.Thanks,Ollie