IT Cloud Planning Expert

About the Role

Norconsult Telematics is seeking an IT Cloud Planning Expert to lead the strategic planning, capacity forecasting, and continuous evolution of enterprise IT cloud infrastructure. This full-time position is based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and involves managing environments across private, public, hybrid, and multi-cloud platforms. The role focuses on translating business and application requirements into scalable infrastructure plans, technology roadmaps, and investment strategies, while ensuring alignment with business objectives and long-term cost efficiency.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead short-, medium-, and long-term capacity planning across private, public, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments, aligning infrastructure resources with business demand and application growth.
• Develop cloud infrastructure roadmaps covering platform modernization, technology refresh, consolidation, standardization, and end-of-life management for platforms such as VMware, Red Hat, hyperconverged infrastructure, and cloud-native solutions.
• Manage CAPEX/OPEX forecasting, annual budgeting, multi-year investment planning, and business-case development, including total cost of ownership (TCO) and cost-benefit analysis.
• Evaluate compute, storage, networking, virtualization, containers, Kubernetes, automation, and cloud management platforms for scalability, performance, resilience, and technical feasibility.
• Define workload placement, cloud adoption, migration, and repatriation strategies across AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, private cloud, and edge environments, considering security, connectivity, data sovereignty, latency, and cost.
• Assess infrastructure requirements for AI/ML, Generative AI, and Agentic AI workloads, including GPU capacity, high-performance networking, storage, power, deployment models, and associated cost economics.
• Drive FinOps practices, cloud consumption analysis, resource utilization optimization, unit-cost modelling, and chargeback/showback mechanisms to improve infrastructure efficiency and financial accountability.
• Lead initiatives for cloud modernization, infrastructure consolidation, platform standardization, automation, sustainability, and technology simplification.
• Conduct technical and commercial evaluations, RFI/RFP processes, proof-of-concept assessments, infrastructure sizing reviews, licensing evaluations, and vendor negotiations.
• Assess infrastructure dependencies, capacity risks, technology obsolescence, performance constraints, disaster recovery requirements, and platform lifecycle risks.
• Prepare strategic recommendations, investment proposals, capacity forecasts, benchmarking reports, and management presentations for executive stakeholders.
• Collaborate with enterprise architecture, infrastructure operations, application, cybersecurity, finance, procurement, and business teams to align cloud strategy and investment priorities.

Required Experience

• A minimum of 10 years of experience in IT cloud planning and infrastructure management.

Work Environment

This role is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, requiring collaboration with various internal teams and external vendors to achieve strategic cloud objectives.