Cloud Engineer

Cloud Engineer — Job Description

Key Responsibilities

• Cloud architecture & design: design cloud-native architectures (IaaS/PaaS/SaaS), choose services, and define networking, security, and resiliency patterns.
• Infrastructure provisioning: implement and maintain infrastructure as code (IaC) for compute, networking, storage, and managed services.
• Deployment & CI/CD: build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, automated deployments, and release workflows (blue/green, canary).
• Automation & tooling: automate operational tasks, provisioning, scaling, and configuration management.
• Security & compliance: implement IAM, network security (VPCs, firewalls), encryption, secrets management, and ensure compliance controls.
• Monitoring & observability: implement logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting for reliability and performance.
• Cost optimization: monitor cloud spend, right-size resources, and implement cost-saving patterns.
• Reliability & incident response: design for high availability, disaster recovery, runbooks, and participate in on-call rotations and incident postmortems.
• Containerization & orchestration: deploy and manage container platforms (Docker, Kubernetes) and platform tooling (Helm, Operators).
• Data & storage: design storage solutions, backups, snapshots, lifecycle policies, and data transfer strategies.
• Migration & modernization: plan and execute migrations from on-premises to cloud or between cloud providers; modernize legacy applications.
• Collaboration & documentation: work with developers, security, and SREs; produce architecture docs, runbooks, and operational playbooks.
• Evaluation & proof-of-concepts: evaluate new cloud services, design POCs, and recommend adoption paths.

Required Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Experience: 3+ years (Cloud Engineer) or 5+ years (Senior) working with cloud platforms and infrastructure.
• Technical skills:
• Proven experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM templates, or Pulumi.
• Containerization and orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, EKS/GKE/AKS experience.
• CI/CD tooling: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or equivalent.
• Configuration management and automation: Ansible, Puppet, Chef, or scripting (Bash, Python).
• Networking fundamentals: VPCs, subnets, routing, NAT, load balancing, DNS.
• Identity and access management: IAM roles/policies, SSO, RBAC.
• Monitoring & logging: Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, CloudWatch, Stackdriver, ELK.
• Storage and databases: managed DBs, object storage, block storage, backups.
• Security practices: secrets management, KMS, vulnerability scanning.
• Soft skills: strong troubleshooting, communication, cross-team collaboration, and documentation.

Nice-To-Have

• Cloud certifications (AWS Certified Solutions Architect/DevOps Engineer, Google Professional Cloud Engineer, Azure Architect/DevOps).
• Experience with service meshes, observability stacks (OpenTelemetry), and platform engineering (internal developer platforms).
• Experience building self-service developer platforms, GitOps patterns, and policy-as-code (OPA, Terraform Cloud).
• Pay: QAR12,849.47 - QAR18,643.34 per month