Systems that hold their SLOs when traffic spikes
Hire from vetted cloud, platform, SRE and integration engineers who run production systems against SLOs. Any specialist or squad starts within 4 working days.
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Fig. 01Cloud & Complex Systems Practice
Vetted backend, platform, SRE, integration and cloud architecture specialists for banks, telecoms and national platforms.
Remote Pro Ai’s Cloud & Complex Systems practice lets you hire cloud engineers from a vetted bench of specialists who design and run distributed, event-driven and sovereign-cloud systems: platform engineering, SRE, cloud architecture, integration and backend services. Every engineer has operated production systems against defined SLOs, and any specialist or squad starts within 4 working days.
Built for scale
Engineers who have run systems for millions of users with SLOs and error budgets.
Sovereign-ready
Landing zones and residency patterns for Saudi, UAE and EU cloud regions.
Modernisation experts
Monolith-to-microservices, core-banking integration and legacy migration playbooks.
Numbers here come from the feed that powers bench availability. An engineer is listed as available when vetted, off assignment and able to start in 4 working days or fewer.
Certification column counts AWS, Azure, GCP and CNCF credentials verified by our team.
An internal developer platform with golden paths, GitOps and policy guardrails, typically live in 10 weeks.
SLIs, SLOs and error budgets, OpenTelemetry tracing, actionable alerts and a practised incident-command process.
Domain-driven decomposition into event-driven services, with parallel running and zero-downtime cut-over.
Sovereign landing zones with identity, networking and encryption aligned to NCA CCC and ISO/IEC 27017.
Tagging, showback, rightsizing, commitment planning and unit-cost reporting that finance can forecast.
Governed API gateways, ISO 20022 and Open Banking integrations, and change-data-capture pipelines.
Platform lead, 2 platform engineers, SRE, DevSecOps
Cloud architect, 2 DevOps, cloud security, backend, SDET
2 FinOps engineers and a platform engineer
Engineers from any of these squads are in your cloud within 4 working days. Compositions, availability status and monthly prices: Cloud & Complex Systems Ready Squads.
| Role | What they own | Levels | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Platform Engineer | Kubernetes platforms, GitOps, golden paths, developer portals | Mid · Senior · Lead | Rising 2026 |
| Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) | SLOs, observability, incident command, capacity planning | Mid · Senior · Lead | Rising 2026 |
| Cloud Architect (Multi-cloud & Sovereign) | Landing zones, residency patterns, migration strategy, FinOps models | Senior · Lead | Rising 2026 |
| Backend Engineer (Java / .NET / Go / Node) | High-throughput services behind banking, telecom and government platforms | Mid · Senior · Lead | In demand |
| Integration & API Engineer | API products, ISO 20022, Open Banking and ERP integration | Mid · Senior · Lead | Rising 2026 |
| DevOps Engineer | CI/CD, infrastructure as code, release safety | Mid · Senior · Lead | Not applicable |
| Data Platform Engineer | Spark, Flink and Kafka platforms with governance and DR | Mid · Senior · Lead | Not applicable |
| FinOps & Cloud Cost Engineer | Cost allocation, optimisation and unit economics | Mid · Senior · Lead | Rising 2026 |
Clouds · Platform · Infrastructure as code · Observability · Backend languages · Streaming and data stores · Integration · Embedded and ERP
Platform
Kubernetes, Helm, ArgoCD, Flux, Crossplane, Backstage, Kyverno.
Infrastructure as code
Terraform, OpenTofu, Ansible.
Observability
OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, PagerDuty, k6, Chaos Mesh.
Streaming and data stores
Kafka, Flink, PostgreSQL, Redis, Cassandra, CockroachDB.
Integration
Apigee, Kong, Azure APIM, MuleSoft, Boomi, Kafka Connect.
Embedded and ERP
Zephyr, FreeRTOS, MQTT, AWS IoT Core, SAP BTP, Oracle Fusion, Dynamics 365.
Core-banking integration platform · A Tier-1 Saudi bank, Riyadh
An event-driven microservices layer replaced a monolithic integration hub for retail and corporate channels, with SAMA-mapped controls, PCI-scoped environments and in-Kingdom cloud (Pattern B).
Subscriber backend for 10M+ users · A telecom operator, Europe
Re-platformed a subscriber-facing backend to Kubernetes with autoscaling, observability and chaos testing, with follow-the-sun on-call from Cairo.
Embedded firmware for connected vehicles · An automotive Tier-1 supplier, Germany
Secure-boot firmware, an OTA update pipeline and hardware-in-the-loop test automation in TISAX-aligned environments under ISO 26262 processes.
Ahmed Rashad · Head of Cloud & Complex Systems
The Head of Cloud & Complex Systems approves every cloud, platform and systems placement, and owns the practice’s failure-mode assessments, its runbook library and the reliability standards squads report against. When a client platform breaches an SLO, the practice lead can join the post-mortem review with the Squad Lead.
Screen · Live technical · Practical · Communication · Background and references
Systems engineers are tested on what happens when things fail, because that is when you will need them.
Evidence of operating production systems with SLOs, on-call rotations and real traffic.
Design a payment service that stays correct under partial failure: idempotency, retries, sagas.
Diagnose and mitigate a failing lab Kubernetes cluster, then write the post-mortem.
Present an architecture decision record to a non-technical owner and handle push-back.
References confirm on-call ownership; certifications verified with the issuer.
Cloud Architects also review a landing zone against Well-Architected guidance and NCA CCC. FinOps candidates analyse an anonymised cloud bill. More on how we vet.
Banking and fintech · Telecom · Government · Energy and utilities · Giga-projects · Retail
Banking and fintech
core modernisation, ISO 20022 and payment rails. Banking & Fintech
Telecom
subscriber platforms at 99.95% availability. Telecom
Government
national platforms on in-Kingdom hosting. Government
Energy and utilities
embedded, IoT and real-time systems. Energy & Utilities
Giga-projects
IoT platforms and city-scale integration. Real Estate & Giga-Projects
Retail
peak-season scaling and headless commerce back ends. Retail & E-commerce
AWS · Azure · GCP · OCI · Kubernetes · Kafka and event-driven · ISO 20022 · NCA CCC
Certifications held across the bench include AWS Solutions Architect Professional, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Google Professional Cloud Architect, CKA, CKAD, CKS, Terraform Associate, FinOps Certified Practitioner, Confluent Certified, ISTQB Advanced and SAP Certified. Remote Pro Ai’s status: ISO/IEC 27001 in progress (certification target Q2 2027); SOC 2 Type II planned for 2027. See the Trust Center.
20 minutes with a solutions architect. No sales script.
Yes. The Platform & SRE Squad builds Kubernetes-based internal developer platforms with GitOps, golden-path templates, policy-as-code and a developer portal such as Backstage. A typical first release, with the first product teams onboarded, lands in about 10 weeks. The squad also sets DORA metrics so you can measure the effect.
Yes. Cloud Architects design landing zones in in-Kingdom and UAE regions, including identity, networking, encryption and key management aligned to NCA CCC and your sector regulator. The residency pattern is recorded in the Statement of Work, and engineers can work entirely inside your tenancy so no data leaves your chosen region.
On-call scope is written into the Statement of Work: hours covered, response targets and escalation path. One SRE cannot cover 24/7 alone, so round-the-clock coverage uses a follow-the-sun rota with additional SRE seats. On the Case T-02 programme, on-call from Cairo supports 99.95% availability for 10M+ users.
Yes, using parallel running, event-driven adapters and staged traffic shifting with rollback at every step. On Case B-01, a 12-engineer squad replaced a monolithic integration hub for a Tier-1 Saudi bank with zero downtime at cut-over and a 41% reduction in integration lead time.
Architects work across AWS, Azure, GCP and Oracle Cloud and hold credentials such as AWS Solutions Architect Professional, Azure Solutions Architect Expert and Google Professional Cloud Architect. Architect roles are supplied at Senior and Lead levels only. Every certification is verified with the issuer before a profile is shared.
Yes. Embedded & IoT Systems Engineers develop firmware on ARM and RTOS platforms with secure boot and OTA updates, and build edge-to-cloud pipelines with MQTT and OPC UA. On the Case A-01 programme for a German automotive supplier, the squad rolled OTA updates to 120k units with zero safety regressions.
Pricing is quotation-based by role, seniority and hours. Single engineers follow Mid, Senior and Lead bands, and ready squads have a fixed monthly price from USD 16,200/month in SAR, AED, USD or EUR, with VAT shown separately. Every rate includes equipment, tooling and replacement cover, with no placement or exit fees.
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