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About the Role: GCP Cloud DevOps Engineer

Halian | Managed Services, Recruitment Agency & Contract Staffing is seeking a senior-level GCP Cloud DevOps Engineer for a full-time position in the Eastern region of Saudi Arabia, specifically in Al Khobar or Dhahran. This role requires a minimum of 7 years of dedicated experience in designing, building, and delivering robust, enterprise-scale DevOps solutions. A valid Google Cloud Professional DevOps Engineer certification is a mandatory prerequisite for this position.

Role Purpose and Scope

The successful candidate will be responsible for architecting and implementing automated, secure infrastructure pipelines. This involves bridging the gap between legacy systems and modern cloud-native ecosystems, with a focus on complex, multi-layered cloud transformation projects. The role acts as a core technical consultant on high-impact cloud initiatives, ensuring successful migration and modernization of complex legacy architectures.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design, implementation, and scaling of end-to-end enterprise DevOps solutions on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Architect resilient, highly available, and secure infrastructure blueprints for high-transaction corporate frameworks.
• Enforce environmental consistency using Terraform as the primary enterprise Infrastructure as Code (IaC) standard.
• Build modular, reusable, and secure Terraform registries for provisioning complex multi-region VPCs, IAM hierarchies, and compute environments.
• Implement automated drift detection and state-file management best practices across production environments.
• Design, optimize, and maintain advanced continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines utilizing GitLab CI/CD and GitHub Actions.
• Standardize repository management workflows, branching strategies, and automated quality/security gates (including SAST/DAST tools).
• Implement containerized deployment strategies using Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Cloud Run, and Artifact Registry.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Security, Cloud Architecture, and Software Engineering teams to implement a rigorous DevSecOps culture.
• Design robust monitoring, alerting, and logging frameworks using GCP Cloud Logging, Cloud Monitoring, and open-source stacks (Prometheus/Grafana).

Required Qualifications and Experience

• Experience: Minimum of 7 years in DevOps engineering, infrastructure automation, or cloud solution architecture, with a heavy emphasis on enterprise environments.
• Transformation Projects: Proven experience as a technical lead or key contributor in large-scale, complex corporate IT migrations or digital transformation initiatives.
• Certification: A valid Google Cloud Professional DevOps Engineer certification is mandatory.
• Primary Tooling: Advanced proficiency with Terraform for complex infrastructure orchestration and deep, hands-on experience designing workflows in GitLab and GitHub ecosystem variants.
• Containerization: Comprehensive expertise with Docker, Kubernetes (specifically GKE), and service mesh topologies.
• Networking & Security: Strong grasp of enterprise networking (Shared VPCs, Cloud DNS, Cloud Interconnect, Firewalls) and foundational DevSecOps rules (IAM least privilege, Key Management Service, Secrets management).

Preferred Skills

• Proficiency in scripting and automation utilizing Python, Go, or advanced Bash.
• Familiarity with database migration practices on GCP (Cloud SQL, Spanner, Bigtable).
• Background working within highly regulated frameworks (*, financial services, healthcare, or government data standards).

Work Environment and Offerings

This role offers the opportunity to lead high-visibility, career-defining transformation projects within a collaborative tech ecosystem. Employees gain access to premium continuous learning tracks and specialized technical certifications. Halian provides flexible, hybrid, or remote working models with competitive executive-tier compensation and benefits.