Cloud Engineer

Job Posting Location: Riyadh, KSA (Onsite)

Position Objective

Design, build, and implement a scalable, secure, and highly available private cloud platform using VMware and Red Hat OpenShift (OCP). Ensure platform readiness, automation, enterprise integration, and compliance with security and governance standards.

Job Description & Responsibilities

• Design and implement end-to-end private cloud and container platform architectures (HLD/LLD).
• Deploy and manage VMware infrastructure, including vSphere, vCenter, NSX-T, and vSAN.
• Design, deploy, and manage Red Hat OpenShift (OCP) clusters and container platforms.
• Integrate cloud infrastructure with enterprise network, security, storage, and ITSM systems.
• Implement disaster recovery (DR), replication, high availability, and backup strategies.
• Configure VMware cloud management tools, including vRA, vRO, and vROps.
• Develop automation workflows using Ansible, vRO, APIs, and scripting.
• Enable self-service provisioning, service catalogs, templates, and blueprints through ServiceNow/vRA.
• Implement multi-tenancy, RBAC, resource management, and cloud governance.
• Ensure platform security, scalability, performance, and production readiness.
• Prepare technical documentation, architecture designs, and operational procedures.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or a related field.
• Minimum 6 years of relevant experience in VMware infrastructure, private cloud architecture, and platform implementation.
• Strong hands-on experience with VMware vSphere, vCenter, NSX-T, and vSAN.
• Experience with Red Hat OpenShift, Kubernetes, and container platforms.
• Knowledge of vRA, vRO, vROps, Ansible, REST APIs, and ServiceNow.
• Experience in cloud automation, DR, high availability, infrastructure security, and enterprise integrations.
• Strong troubleshooting, documentation, and stakeholder management skills.