Cloud Engineer - Private Cloud & OpenShift

About the role

This onsite position in Riyadh calls for a Cloud Engineer who will design, build and implement a scalable, secure and highly available private cloud platform based on VMware and Red Hat OpenShift (OCP). The role covers platform readiness, automation, enterprise integration and compliance with security and governance standards.

Key responsibilities

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

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering or a related field.
• Minimum 6+ years of 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.