Senior Specialist Cloud Center of Excellence

About Qiddiya Investment Company

Qiddiya Investment Company is seeking a Senior Specialist - Cloud Center of Excellence to join its team in Riyadh, Riyadh Province. This full-time role is essential for establishing and maintaining robust cloud financial management practices within the organization.

Role Purpose

The Senior Specialist - Cloud Center of Excellence supports and governs cloud financial management practices to ensure cloud spending is transparent, controlled, and aligned with organizational financial objectives. This position enables cost visibility, budgeting, forecasting, and optimization by providing reporting, cost allocation mechanisms, and advisory services to application teams, platform engineering, and cloud operations teams, ultimately improving overall cost efficiency.

Key Responsibilities

• Support and maintain cloud cost governance policies, financial guardrails, and usage controls to ensure responsible cloud consumption across teams.
• Configure and manage cloud budget alerts to monitor spending and notify stakeholders when consumption approaches defined thresholds.
• Publish and maintain cloud cost dashboards and reports to provide visibility into cloud spend, consumption trends, and cost drivers.
• Support cloud cost budgeting and forecasting based on historical usage patterns, growth projections, and planned cloud adoption initiatives.
• Implement and maintain cloud cost allocation and showback mechanisms to attribute cloud spending to assets, departments, and applications.
• Analyze cloud usage patterns and identify opportunities to optimize resource consumption and reduce unnecessary spend.
• Provide cost optimization recommendations to application teams and cloud operations teams to improve the efficiency of cloud resource usage.
• Evaluate and recommend commitment-based pricing options, such as Committed Use Discounts (CUDs), based on workload usage patterns.
• Support the purchase and lifecycle management of commitment-based discounts to maximize cost efficiency and financial predictability.
• Work with cloud platform engineering and cloud operations teams to enforce cost governance controls and improve cost visibility through tagging.
• Maintain documentation and financial governance artifacts related to cloud cost management policies, reports, and optimization practices.
• Support annual departmental financial planning and budgeting activities.

Required Experience

Candidates for this full-time position should possess 2-5 years of experience in cloud financial management, FinOps, or a related field. A strong understanding of cloud cost optimization strategies, governance frameworks, and financial planning principles is essential for success in this role.

Location and Work Type

This is a full-time role located in Riyadh, Riyadh Province. The Senior Specialist will collaborate with various internal teams to achieve cloud financial objectives.

Application Information

Interested applicants are invited to apply. Salary details for this position will be discussed directly with qualified candidates during the interview process.