Cloud Infrastructure Planning Expert📣 إعلان

About Norconsult Telematics and the Role

Norconsult Telematics is seeking a Cloud Infrastructure Planning Expert to join its team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time position is central to driving architecture and planning activities for cloud infrastructure solutions. The role encompasses virtualized and containerized platforms, capacity forecasting, infrastructure roadmap development, and resiliency planning.

Key Responsibilities

• Plan Cloud Infrastructure platforms, including virtualization, container platforms, compute, storage, network, cloud management, automation, and orchestration layers.
• Support cloud infrastructure planning activities for hosting 4G/5G Core CNFs/VNFs, enterprise services, digital services, and future technology platforms.
• Prepare cloud infrastructure capacity plans based on network growth, traffic forecast, business demand, and digital services requirements.
• Support the transformation and modernization of legacy infrastructure towards cloud-native, virtualized, and automated cloud platforms.
• Plan capacity and performance-related expansions for Cloud Infrastructure platforms, covering compute, storage, networking, virtualization, and container environments.
• Support business continuity, georedundancy, disaster recovery, and multi-layer resilience planning for Cloud Infrastructure platforms.
• Coordinate with Mobile Core, Transport, Fixed Services, IT, Cyber Security, and Operations teams for cloud infrastructure planning and hosted workload readiness.

Strategic Planning and Technical Documentation

• Translate complex IT and Telco workloads roadmaps into yearly infrastructure deployment plans.
• Perform architecture and planning analysis for virtualization, containerization, automation, edge computing, and cloud-native infrastructure services.
• Perform Cloud Infrastructure dimensioning, capacity assessment, and solution planning, including supporting the approval of related technical documentation.
• Prepare and maintain Technical Specifications documentation, including vendor solution design, costing, Integration Specifications, and Statements of Work (SOWs).
• Prepare and evaluate RFX, RFIs, RFPs, and RFQs for Cloud Infrastructure platforms and related digital technology services.
• Validate related Bills of Quantities (BOQs) and support procurement teams during vendor evaluation, technical clarification, and tendering activities.

Emerging Technologies and Vendor Management

• Support planning and enablement of emerging digital technologies, including NTN, MCMP, Partner Interconnects, AI, LLM platforms, and cloud-native digital services.
• Assist in E2E validation, verification, and domain acceptance testing for new cloud platforms, VNFs, CNFs, and infrastructure services.
• Maintain strong exposure to NFV, SDN, NFVI, VIM, NFVO, cloud orchestration, service chaining, OpenStack, VMware, Red Hat OpenShift, and cloud-native infrastructure.
• Support the adoption of emerging technologies to improve service agility, infrastructure utilization, and new business enablement for digital services.
• Review vendor technical solutions to ensure alignment with business requirements, security guidelines, regulatory requirements, and cloud infrastructure standards.
• Conduct technology assessments and feasibility studies for emerging cloud infrastructure, automation, orchestration, NTN, MCMP, Partner Interconnects, AI, and LLM technologies.

Candidate Profile and Experience

• A minimum of 10 years of experience in a relevant field.
• Proactive approach and a strong sense of responsibility, with the ability to collaborate effectively with stakeholders as part of a unified team.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent analysis and problem-solving skills.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, offering an opportunity to work within a dynamic environment focused on advanced cloud infrastructure solutions.