Senior Specialist Cloud Center of Excellence

About Qiddiya

Qiddiya is seeking a Senior Specialist Cloud Center of Excellence to join their team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time role focuses on supporting and governing cloud financial management practices to ensure transparent, controlled, and financially aligned cloud spending within the organization.

Role Purpose

The Senior Specialist Cloud Center of Excellence will enable cost visibility, budgeting, forecasting, and optimization. This involves providing reporting, cost allocation mechanisms, and advisory services to application teams, platform engineering, and cloud operations teams to enhance 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.

Qualifications and Experience

• Candidates should possess 2-5 years of relevant experience.

Work Location

This full-time position is based in Riyadh, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.