Solution Architect – Cloud (GCP) Full Time NEW

Globant — Riyadh, KSA

Employment type: Contract

Level: SME 3-4 Solution Architect. Needs strong technical leadership experience.

Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (on-site). Remote for Alternative locations: Jordan, Lebanon, UAE, Egypt — with regular travel to Riyadh required.

At Globant, we are working to make the world a better place, one step at a time. We enhance business development and enterprise solutions to prepare them for a digital future. With a diverse and talented team present in more than 30 countries, we are strategic partners to leading global companies in their business process transformation.

We seek a seasoned Solution Architect who shares our passion for innovation and change for an immediate consulting contract. This role is critical to helping our business partners evolve and adapt to consumers’ personalized expectations in this new technological era.

Role Summary

This role is responsible for leading cloud architecture strategy across the organisation. The architect designs multi cloud and GCP centred solutions, drives automation and DevOps practices, and ensures cloud security, reliability, and cost effectiveness. The role requires broad architectural understanding across multiple disciplines alongside deep expertise in cloud technologies.

Key Responsibilities

• Define multi cloud architecture strategy aligned with business goals
• Design scalable and reliable cloud solutions across GCP and other platforms
• Lead cloud infrastructure design and cost optimisation
• Define DevOps practices, CI and CD pipelines, and automation methodology
• Architect API gateway infrastructure using Apigee
• Design CDN and edge strategies using Cloudflare
• Define containerisation and orchestration strategies
• Establish Infrastructure as Code standards
• Define observability practices including logging and monitoring
• Ensure cloud security, governance, and compliance
• Design disaster recovery and business continuity approaches
• Define shared cloud services and platform components
• Lead cloud modernisation and technical debt reduction
• Mentor teams in cloud engineering and best practice
• Evaluate cloud services and emerging technologies
• Produce and maintain cloud architecture documentation
• Present cloud architecture decisions to senior stakeholders

Expected Outcomes

• Improved scalability, reliability, and security of cloud platforms
• Reduced cloud spend through optimisation and governance
• Mature DevOps and automation practices across teams
• Consistent cloud patterns and reusable components

Cross Functional Design Leadership

• Facilitate multi team architecture and platform design workshops
• Guide complex decisions during high risk changes
• Work with engineering, security, product, and operations to address cross cutting challenges
• Support teams in adopting cloud native and DevOps practices

Communication and Influence

• Communicate cloud strategies clearly to technical and non technical stakeholders
• Produce high quality diagrams, documentation, and models
• Present cloud decisions and trade offs transparently
• Influence senior leaders on technology direction and investment

Cross Discipline Architectural Competencies

• Understanding of domain driven design
• Awareness of integration patterns
• Understanding of fundamental data architecture concepts
• Awareness of cyber security principles and cloud security best practice
• Understanding of DevOps and platform engineering approaches
• Ability to define and assess non functional requirements
• Ability to balance cost, performance, resilience, and maintainability
• Ability to evaluate vendor and third party technologies

Shared Architecture Practice Expectations

• Contribute to architectural standards, patterns, and governance
• Participate in architecture reviews and forums
• Support development of cloud and platform roadmaps
• Produce consistent and clear cloud architecture artefacts
• Share reusable patterns and guidance across teams

Decision Making Authority

• Acts as technical authority for cloud architecture
• Owns cloud standards, frameworks, and practices
• Responsible for long term cloud strategy and direction
• Makes informed decisions balancing short term delivery and long term strategy

Technical Skills

Cloud platforms

• Advanced GCP expertise
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or OCI

Core cloud technologies

• Apigee
• Cloudflare
• Google Kubernetes Engine
• Cloud Run
• Cloud Functions
• Cloud Storage
• BigQuery
• Cloud SQL and Cloud Spanner
• Cloud Pub and Sub
• VPC and cloud networking
• IAM and security services
• Cloud Monitoring and Cloud Logging

Infrastructure and automation

• Terraform
• Argo CD
• Docker and Kubernetes
• Configuration automation practices

Architecture patterns

• Multi cloud and hybrid cloud architectures
• Microservices and serverless designs
• Edge and CDN strategies
• High availability and disaster recovery
• Network and security architecture

Operations and optimisation

• Monitoring and logging
• Performance tuning
• FinOps practices
• Incident management
• SRE aligned practices
• Security and performance
• CDN configuration and optimisation
• DDoS mitigation
• Web application firewall rule design
• DNS configuration and protection
• Certificate management
• Zero trust approaches
• Cloud Armor
• Secret Manager

Competencies

• Strong understanding of cloud security and compliance
• Experience in shared services and platform engineering
• Expertise in DevOps adoption and automation
• Strategic thinking and long term planning
• Cost conscious approach
• Clear verbal and written communication

This job can be filled in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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We may use AI and machine learning technologies in our recruitment process. Final compensation offered is based on multiple factors such as the specific role, hiring location, as well as individual skills, experience, and qualifications. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a comprehensive benefits package. Learn more about life at Globant here: Globant Experience Guide.