
Foodics
Senior Cloud Platform Engineer
- Permanent
- Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- Experience 2 - 5 yrs
Job expiry date: 15/05/2026
Job overview
Date posted
31/03/2026
Location
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Salary
SAR 20,000 - 30,000 per month
Compensation
Comprehensive package
Experience
2 - 5 yrs
Seniority
Senior & Lead
Qualification
Bachelors degree
Expiration date
15/05/2026
Job description
The Senior Cloud Platform Engineer at Foodics is responsible for building, scaling, and evolving the company's cloud platform and developer infrastructure to support a high-volume, cloud-native SaaS ecosystem. The role involves designing and implementing multi-cloud architecture across AWS, OCI, and GCP, establishing reusable infrastructure components, implementing GitOps workflows with ArgoCD and Flux, operating Kubernetes platforms at scale including Gateway API for traffic management, maintaining and optimizing Linux-based systems, establishing platform-wide observability, monitoring, and logging standards, and optimizing cloud cost, scalability, and reliability. This position requires expertise in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, and Datadog, cloud networking and security, and distributed systems. The engineer will collaborate with teams to improve developer experience, reduce operational overhead, and drive platform excellence across the organization, enabling millions of transactions daily in a fast-paced, high-growth SaaS environment.
Required skills
Key responsibilities
- Design and evolve a multi-cloud platform (AWS, OCI, GCP) with reusable infrastructure components
- Build self-service infrastructure and developer platform capabilities including golden paths and templates
- Implement and manage GitOps workflows (ArgoCD, Flux) for automated deployments
- Design and operate Kubernetes platforms at scale, including Gateway API and traffic management
- Establish platform-wide observability, monitoring, and logging standards
- Maintain and optimize Linux-based systems across infrastructure
- Collaborate with engineering teams to improve developer experience and delivery speed
- Optimize cloud cost, scalability, and reliability at the platform level
Experience & skills
- Strong experience in multi-cloud environments (AWS, OCI, GCP)
- Deep expertise in Kubernetes including EKS and advanced networking/Gateway API
- Hands-on experience with GitOps (ArgoCD, Flux) and CI/CD systems
- Strong Linux administration skills in production environments
- Expertise in Infrastructure as Code, such as Terraform
- Experience with observability tools including Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, and Datadog
- Solid understanding of cloud networking, security, and distributed systems
- Platform engineering mindset focused on building developer tools and infrastructure
- Experience in building or scaling internal developer platforms or platform engineering functions
- Ability to thrive in fast-paced, high-growth SaaS environments and embrace continuous improvement