Title: Enterprise Infrastructure Architect
Aramco energizes the world economy.
Aramco occupies a unique position in the global energy industry. We are the world's largest producer of hydrocarbons (oil and gas), with the lowest upstream carbon intensity of any major producer.
With our significant investment in technology and infrastructure, we strive to maximize the value of the energy we produce for the world along with a commitment to enhance Aramco’s value to society.
Headquartered in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and with offices around the world, we combine market discipline with a generations’ spanning view of the future, born of our nine decades experience as responsible stewards of the Kingdom’s vast hydrocarbon resources. This responsibility has driven us to deliver significant societal and economic benefits to not just the Kingdom, but also to a vast number of communities, economies, and countries that rely on the vital and reliable energy that we supply.
We are one of the most profitable companies in the world, as well as amongst the top five global companies by market capitalization.
Position Description:
We are seeking an Enterprise Infrastructure Architect, to oversee the company’s enterprise compute and storage strategies. This includes planning, budgeting and precuring the right infrastructures for the right platforms and applications. You’ll be overlooking the technology and defining the roadmaps for each specific environment in the enterprise infrastructure. Enterprise infrastructure will include the server farm, on-prem cloud, storage systems, AI environment and backup and archive environments.
The position will also include financial duties like budgeting and calculating TCO/ROI for the planned procurement projects. Furthermore, supervising each procurement deployment with operation teams.
Finally, you will act as consultant to the organization by continuously researching and studying the latest trends and issues. You will drive enterprise organizational alignment to ensure successful enterprise infrastructure roadmaps, adoption, security, governance, and risk management is adhered to.
Duties and Responsibilities:
You will be required to perform the following:
Define the enterprise infrastructure strategy and roadmap
Work on requirements gathering, capacity planning and workloads forecasting
Analyze and optimize the production applications
Handle the infrastructure budgeting and financials
Handle the infrastructure architecting
Plan, execute and manage hardware and appliances procurements projects
Work with operation teams on the resource utilization and chargeback modules
Work with leading OEMs and technology providers
Define and drive PoC initiatives with end-users and technical teams
Work and collaborate with multiple teams
Consistently looking for the new technology trends in CPU, GPU, cloud solutions and storage services
Minimum Requirements
As a successful candidate you will hold a Bachelor degree or higher in Computer Science or similar
You will have a deep knowledge in cloud native applications and container orchestration solutions, OpenShift, DevOps, VMware, MLOps and CI/CD and storage system and NFS, SMB, iSCSI and S3 protocols
You will also have 15 years experience in infrastructure budgeting and TCO/ROI calculations, backup and archive solutions and data centers and facility requirements
Working environment
Our high-performing employees are drawn by the challenging and rewarding professional, technical and industrial opportunities we offer, and are remunerated accordingly.
At Aramco, our people work on truly world-scale projects, supported by investment in capital and technology that is second to none. And because, as a global energy company, we are faced with addressing some of the world’s biggest technical, logistical and environmental challenges, we invest heavily in talent development.
We have a proud history of educating and training our workforce over many decades. Employees at all levels are encouraged to improve their sector-specific knowledge and competencies through our workforce development programs – one of the largest in the world.