Cloud Engineer

Cloud Engineer — Job Description

Key Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage cloud infrastructure (IaaS/PaaS) on AWS, Azure, GCP, or hybrid environments.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and automation for infrastructure provisioning and application deployments.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM templates, or similar tools.
• Manage container orchestration platforms (Kubernetes, EKS/AKS/GKE) and container workflows.
• Monitor cloud resources, optimize performance and costs, and implement autoscaling and resilience patterns.
• Configure networking, IAM, security groups, firewalls, and identity solutions to enforce security best practices.
• Implement backup, recovery, and disaster recovery strategies; perform DR tests.
• Migrate on-premises workloads to the cloud and modernize legacy applications.
• Integrate cloud services with observability tooling: logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting.
• Collaborate with developers to design cloud-native architectures and troubleshoot production incidents.
• Enforce governance: tagging, resource organization, cost allocation, and policy-as-code (e.g., OPA, AWS Config).
• Maintain documentation: architecture diagrams, runbooks, runbooks, and runbooks (ops runbooks).
• Stay current with cloud provider features and recommend improvements or migrations.
• Participate in on-call rotation for incident response and post-incident reviews.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years experience working with cloud platforms (adjust by level).
• Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud provider: AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Proficiency with IaC tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM) and configuration management.
• Experience with containerization and Kubernetes administration.
• Strong scripting skills (Python, Bash, PowerShell) and automation experience.
• Knowledge of cloud networking, security, IAM, and cost management.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI) and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).
• Good troubleshooting, documentation, and collaboration skills.

Preferred And Nice-To-Have

• Cloud certifications (AWS Certified Solutions Architect/DevOps, Azure AZ- or GCP Professional certs).
• Experience with serverless architectures (Lambda, Functions) and event-driven design.
• Familiarity with platform engineering, service meshes, and GitOps practices.
• Experience with cost optimization, FinOps practices, and multi-cloud strategies.
• Knowledge of compliance standards (PCI, HIPAA, SOC2) where applicable.
• Pay: QAR161.21 - QAR323.21 per hour