Cloud Engineer

Description

Summary: Seeking a skilled Cloud Engineer to design, deploy, and operate scalable, secure cloud infrastructure and platforms supporting business applications. Highlights: 1. Design, implement, and optimize cloud architectures (IaaS/PaaS) 2. Develop and maintain IaC templates and pipelines (Terraform, CloudFormation) 3. Deploy and operate container platforms (Docker, Kubernetes) ***Cloud Engineer — Doha Branch*** **About the role** We are seeking a skilled Cloud Engineer based in Doha to design, deploy, and operate scalable, secure cloud infrastructure and platforms that support business applications and services across the organisation. **Key responsibilities** * Cloud architecture \& deployment: Design, implement and optimise cloud architectures (IaaS/PaaS) using best practices for scalability, resilience and cost\-efficiency. * Infrastructure as Code: Develop and maintain IaC templates and pipelines (Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM) to provision and manage cloud resources. * Platform operations: Deploy, monitor and maintain cloud environments (compute, networking, storage, identity) across public (AWS, Azure, GCP) and hybrid landscapes. * CI/CD \& automation: Build and support CI/CD pipelines, automated build/deploy workflows, configuration management (Ansible, Chef, Puppet) and release automation. * Security \& compliance: Implement cloud security controls (IAM, network segmentation, encryption, secrets management), enforce least\-privilege access and support compliance with local regulations. * Performance \& cost optimisation: Monitor resource usage, tune performance, and implement cost\-management practices including rightsizing and reserved\-instance strategies. * Monitoring \& incident response: Implement observability (Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, Stackdriver), runbooks and participate in on\-call rotation to respond to incidents and perform root\-cause analysis. * Backup \& DR: Design and test backup, snapshot and disaster\-recovery strategies to meet RTO/RPO requirements. * Containerisation \& orchestration: Deploy and operate container platforms (Docker, Kubernetes/EKS/AKS/GKE) and support microservices architectures. * Collaboration \& support: Work with development, security, network and operations teams to onboard applications, define SLAs and resolve infrastructure\-related issues. * Documentation \& standards: Maintain architecture diagrams, runbooks, operation * **Continuous** **improvement:** Evaluate new cloud services and tooling to improve platform reliability, security and developer productivity. **Qualifications \& experience** * Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field (or equivalent experience). * 3\+ years’ hands\-on experience in cloud engineering, platform or systems engineering; experience with AWS, Azure or GCP in production environments. * Proven experience with IaC tools (Terraform, CloudFormation), container orchestration (Kubernetes) and CI/CD tooling (Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions). * Strong Linux/Windows administration, networking (VPC, subnets, routing), and scripting skills (Python, Bash, PowerShell). * Practical knowledge of cloud security, IAM, secrets management and compliance frameworks. * Experience with monitoring/observability stacks and log management (ELK, Prometheus/Grafana, Cloud\-native tools). * Familiarity with database\-as\-a\-service, caching, and messaging services in cloud environments. * Relevant cloud certifications (AWS Certified Solutions Architect/DevOps Engineer, Azure Administrator/Architect, Google Cloud Professional) are advantageous. * Excellent problem‑solving, communication and stakeholder‑management skills. * Valid work authorisation for Qatar. Job Type: Full\-time Pay: QAR35\.00 \- QAR55\.00 per hour Work Location: In person