Cloud Solutions Architect

Cégleírás / Organisation/Department

Our client is a leading provider of IT managed services, supporting a diverse range of enterprise clients across Europe. We're looking for a passionate and experienced Cloud Architect to join their dynamic team. If you thrive on solving complex problems, driving automation, and delivering exceptional service, do not hesitate to apply! 

Pozíció leírása / Job description

As Cloud Architect, your primary responsibilities include:

• Strategic Leadership: Develop and execute a comprehensive cloud strategy aligned with organizational goals and long-term business objectives.

• Solution Oversight: Lead the design and implementation of cloud solutions, ensuring high availability and stability for all managed platforms and services.

• Governance & Security: Oversee platform governance and integrity, ensuring all security protocols and access controls are strictly maintained.

• Financial Operations (FinOps): Manage cloud expenditures across multiple providers, implementing cost-optimization strategies and ensuring financial accountability.

• Change Management: Perform advanced impact analyses for platform changes and provide precise technical estimates for planned service evolutions.

• Standards & Best Practices: Establish and enforce industry-leading standards for cloud operations, challenging existing processes to drive higher quality.

• Innovation: Conduct continuous horizon scanning for emerging technologies to ensure the organization remains at the forefront of the technological curve.

Additional responsibilities:

• Continuous Research: Maintain an expert-level understanding of cloud developments, tools, and solutions to ensure technology effectively delivers on business objectives.

• Documentation Management: Oversee the creation and maintenance of high-quality technical documentation for all cloud platforms to facilitate seamless knowledge transfer.

• Operational Excellence: Deliver high-quality work within agreed timelines, proactively proposing improvements and escalating risks appropriately.

• Compliance & Ethics: Operate strictly within internal policies, financial regulations, legislative requirements, and core organizational values.

• Professional Development: Actively identify and pursue training needs to keep technical skills aligned with evolving business requirements.

• Adaptive Support: Undertake additional duties as required to support the overall purpose of the role and organizational success.

Elvárások / Requirements

• Operating Systems: Proficiency in Unix, Linux, and Windows environments.

• Advanced DevOps Mastery: Deep expertise in GitOps, CI/CD pipelines, test automation, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

• Cloud Architecture: Extensive experience with microservices, containerization (Docker, Podman), and orchestration (Kubernetes, OpenShift, AWS ECS).

• Strategic Platforms: Proven track record with major cloud providers, specifically AWS and Azure, including IaaS, PaaS, and XaaS models.

• Infrastructure Management: Skilled in the full lifecycle of platform operations, including design, capacity planning, performance tuning, and backup/recovery.

• Tooling Expertise:

  • IaC: Terraform, Pulumi, Crossplane, or Ansible.

  • CI/CD & GitOps: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, ArgoCD, or Flux.

  • Observability: OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, and the ELK stack.

  • Security: Integration of security-focused tools like Checkov, Snyk, SonarCloud, and OPA.

• Hybrid Environments: Practical knowledge of diverse hosting models, including on-premise, private, public, and hybrid cloud solutions.

• Stakeholder Management: Exceptional communication skills with a focus on collaborating with internal teams, external suppliers, and customers.

• Problem Solving: An automation-first mindset with the technical versatility to handle both proactive platform improvements and reactive support.

Amit kínálunk / Offer

• Opportunity to join a truly multinational team
• Professional development
• Other benefits as private health insurance, cafeteria, remote support