Expert Cloud Platform Engineer📣 Job Ad

About the Role

Takamol Holding is seeking an Expert Cloud Platform Engineer to join its Infrastructure team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time position is responsible for leading the design, implementation, and automation of resilient, scalable, and secure cloud infrastructure. The role requires deep expertise in modern cloud-native technologies and a proven ability to build and manage robust platforms across multiple public cloud environments. The Expert Cloud Platform Engineer will play a key role in shaping the company's cloud strategy, driving innovation, and ensuring the reliability and efficiency of the underlying infrastructure, collaborating with development, security, and other infrastructure teams to deliver solutions aligned with business objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and manage Kubernetes-based platforms across public cloud environments, including Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Drive the adoption of GitOps principles and practices using ArgoCD for consistent, automated, and auditable deployments.
• Build and maintain cloud infrastructure using Terraform, adhering to Infrastructure as Code (IaC) best practices.
• Automate configuration management and operational tasks across the infrastructure using Ansible.
• Develop, manage, and optimize CI/CD pipelines for fast, secure, and reliable software delivery.
• Collaborate with development, security, and infrastructure teams to ensure platform solutions meet business requirements.
• Proactively monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize infrastructure performance and deployment processes.
• Enforce cloud security standards and governance policies within Kubernetes clusters and associated cloud services.
• Maintain comprehensive documentation for infrastructure design, operational processes, and procedures.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• A minimum of 6 years of progressive experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) roles.
• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes, including deployment, networking, security, and Helm chart management.
• Proficiency in ArgoCD or similar GitOps tools such as FluxCD.
• Expertise in using Terraform for infrastructure provisioning and management on cloud platforms.
• Solid experience with Ansible for automation and configuration management.
• Proven experience with CI/CD tools including GitLab CI, Jenkins, or GitHub Actions.
• Demonstrated experience working with public cloud platforms, with specific expertise in:
  • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), covering compute, networking, load balancing, block/object storage, and IAM.
  • Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including GKE, Cloud Build, IAM, and VPC networking.
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS), specifically EKS, EC2, S3, IAM, and VPC.
• Proficiency in Git and scripting languages such as Bash and Python.
• A strong understanding of security best practices within cloud and Kubernetes environments.

Technical Skills

• Kubernetes
• ArgoCD
• Terraform
• Ansible
• CI/CD
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• GitOps
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• GitLab CI
• Jenkins
• GitHub Actions
• Bash Scripting
• Python Scripting
• Cloud Security
• Multi-cloud architectures
• Hybrid-cloud architectures
• Service Mesh (*, Istio, Linkerd)
• Monitoring (*, Prometheus, Grafana)
• Logging (*, ELK Stack, Loki)
• Alerting

Additional Information

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The role requires over 10 years of experience. Preferred qualifications include experience implementing multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud architectures, familiarity with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd), experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Loki), and relevant certifications such as CKA, CKAD, Terraform Associate, or cloud provider certifications (AWS, GCP, OCI).