Cloud Performance Engineer – Saudi Arabia – 12-Month Contract
We are seeking an experienced Cloud Performance Engineer to support Mobile Core Network cloud performance activities within a managed services environment in Saudi Arabia.
The successful candidate will be responsible for analysing cloud infrastructure performance, supporting technical teams, troubleshooting complex issues and developing reports, tools and processes to improve Core Network performance delivery.
Key Responsibilities
- Perform on-demand, short-term and long-term Mobile Core cloud performance analysis.
- Monitor, analyse and optimise virtualised and cloud-native infrastructure.
- Support OpenStack, Kubernetes and OpenShift environments.
- Analyse compute, processing, storage and networking performance.
- Perform resource optimisation, performance tuning and capacity planning.
- Support hybrid environments covering virtual infrastructure, cloud-native platforms and bare-metal infrastructure.
- Troubleshoot infrastructure and performance issues and perform root cause analysis.
- Support monitoring and observability using tools including Prometheus and Grafana.
- Support Day-0, Day-1 and Day-2 operational activities.
- Support upgrades, patching, expansion and lifecycle management.
- Develop reports, tools and processes to improve cloud performance delivery.
- Support SLA and ITSM compliance.
- Work closely with technical and customer-facing teams.
Technical Experience
Virtualisation & NFVi
- OpenStack: Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Glance and Keystone
- KVM/QEMU
- VMware
- NFVi
- Ericsson CEE, SDI and CCD
Cloud-Native
- Kubernetes
- OpenShift / RHOCP
- Docker
- Helm
- Operators
- CNF environments
Compute & Performance
- COTS servers including Dell and HPE
- Host aggregates and availability zones
- Resource optimisation
- L1 accelerators
- Performance tuning
- Capacity planning
Storage
- Ceph / Rook-Ceph
- Cinder and Manila
- iSCSI
- SAN/NAS
- CSI drivers
- OSD management
- Persistent volumes, snapshots and replication
Networking
- Spine-leaf / CLOS architecture
- L2/L3 networking
- BGP and VXLAN
- VLANs
- SDN controllers
- CNI plugins
- MetalLB
- Juniper, Extreme and SDI switches
- SR-IOV
- East-west and north-south traffic
Automation & Lifecycle
- Ansible
- Terraform
- Heat templates
- Helm
- Python and Bash scripting
- Day-0/1/2 operations
- Upgrades, patching, expansion and LCM
Monitoring & Troubleshooting
- Prometheus / Grafana
- Hardware health monitoring
- RCA and observability
- SLA / ITSM compliance
Security & Operations
- Network policies
- Image scanning and hardening
- PKI
- Syslog
- Production support
- Customer integration
Additional Skills
Experience with Linux shell, SQL, technical reporting and KPI/performance analysis is beneficial.
The successful candidate should have strong analytical and problem-solving skills, excellent English communication and reporting capabilities, and the ability to work effectively under pressure in a customer-facing environment.
