Cloud and DevOps engineering

Build and run the servers and cloud services that keep apps working around the clock.

• Cloud platforms
• Containers and automation
• Networks and security
• Systems monitoring

In Arabic: هندسة الحوسبة السحابية وعمليات التطوير

4 years. The length may differ between universities depending on the foundation year.

Examples of graduates’ jobs, not a full or ranked list. A job is an occupation; the major is one route to it:

• Cloud engineer
• DevOps engineer
• Site reliability engineer
• Platform engineer

GASTAT does not publish pay for each major; this is the average for the “Information and communication technology” field among Saudi bachelor’s holders, 2024 (1445–1446 AH)¹.

Unemployment among Saudi graduates of the field (bachelor’s, all ages)¹:

• 20211442–1443 AH16.2%
• 20221443–1444 AH13.7%
• 20231444–1445 AH10.7%
• 20241445–1446 AH10.8%

For the whole field, not this major alone. Past measurement, not a forecast.

Example programmes abroad

• University of East London, BSc (Hons) Cloud Computing

• DevOps engineers appear among the 15 fastest-growing jobs to 2030 (1451–1452 AH) in the report.²