Senior DevOps Architect

About the Opportunity

NMD Placement Consultancy is seeking a highly experienced Senior DevOps Architect to join a client team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This is a full-time position focused on designing, implementing, and governing highly scalable, secure, automated, and resilient cloud infrastructure across both Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Role Purpose and Scope

The Senior DevOps Architect will be responsible for defining comprehensive DevOps architecture, cloud adoption strategies, and robust CI/CD pipelines. This role involves significant expertise in Infrastructure as Code, containerization, observability, security, and automation practices within multi-cloud environments. The ideal candidate will provide technical leadership and collaborate across application, security, infrastructure, and development teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable, highly available, and secure cloud architectures across OCI and AWS, including defining infrastructure standards, reference architectures, and deployment patterns.
• Architect solutions involving compute, networking, storage, databases, IAM, load balancing, and monitoring, while developing cloud migration and modernization strategies.
• Design and implement enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines, automating build, test, release, and deployment processes, and integrating DevSecOps practices.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and other automation frameworks, automating provisioning and configuration of OCI and AWS resources.
• Architect and manage containerized environments using Docker and Kubernetes, including OCI Kubernetes Engine (OKE) and Amazon EKS.
• Implement cloud security, IAM, secrets management, and least-privilege access, ensuring compliance with organizational and regulatory standards.
• Design centralized monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability solutions, establishing SRE, availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity practices.

Required Technical Expertise

Candidates must possess strong hands-on expertise in both OCI and AWS, including:

• OCI Services: Compute, Virtual Cloud Network (VCN), Load Balancer, Object Storage, Block/Boot Volumes, IAM, Autonomous Database / Oracle Database, OKE, OCI Registry, OCI DevOps, Logging and Monitoring, Vault and Key Management, Cloud Guard.
• AWS Services: EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, EKS, ECS, Lambda, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, ELB/ALB, Route 53, Secrets Manager / KMS, AWS CodePipeline / CodeBuild / CodeDeploy.
• DevOps Tools: Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Python, Shell/Bash, PowerShell.

Qualifications and Experience

• A minimum of 5-10 years of experience in a relevant DevOps or Cloud Architecture role.
• Demonstrated ability to design secure OCI networking and enterprise cloud environments.
• Proven experience in designing highly available and fault-tolerant AWS architectures.
• Strong understanding of DevSecOps practices and vulnerability management.

Leadership and Collaboration

The Senior DevOps Architect will lead technical discussions, provide architectural guidance to DevOps and cloud engineering teams, and review existing infrastructure for optimization opportunities. This role requires preparing architecture diagrams, technical documentation, and implementation standards, alongside mentoring engineers and promoting DevOps best practices. Collaboration with development, QA, security, infrastructure, and business teams is essential.