Senior Cloud Architect
Summary
Design and manage the cloud infrastructure for a satellite-based global connectivity network, using AWS/GCP, Kubernetes, and DevSecOps practices.
This includes
- Defining the CI strategic vision and ensuring enterprise alignment including e.g.:
- Cloud road map: Defines the multi-year cloud strategy, choosing between public, private, hybrid, or multi-cloud approaches based on company goals.
- Vendor management: Evaluates cloud providers, third-party software, and integration tools to get the best value and avoid vendor lock-in.
- Designing and specifying the CI technical architecture including e.g.:
- High availability &disaster recovery: Designs systems with automated failovers and multi-region replication so business services never go down.
- Modern paradigms: Champions microservices, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and serverless architectures to maximize application agility.
- AI tooling & tech stack: Evaluateand govern modern AI tools and frameworks (e.g., LLMs, RAG pipelines, vector databases, and orchestration tools) foroptimalperformance and cost.
- Data &analyticsinfra: Architectures scalable data pipelines, data warehouses, and data lakes capable of handling massive telemetry or business data.
- Promoting DevSecOps and automation including e.g.:
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Ensures that entire environments can be spun up or torn down automatically via code,eliminatingmanual configuration errors.
- Security-first mindset: Integrates continuous security monitoring, automated vulnerability scanning, and strict encryption into the core design.
- CI/CD integration: Collaborates with DevOps teams to build smooth software deployment pipelines, accelerating how fast new features hit production.
- Executing proof of concepts to design and prototype solutions(including AI)to validate technical feasibility and demonstrate value before full-scale production.
- Preparing financial engineering for cost optimisation and budget forecasting.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related field.
- 10+ years of professional experience in CI with5+ years specifically as a cloud architect defining and specifying technical architecture and deployment solutions.
- Valuable experience in setting up a CI from scratch.
- Holistic understanding of cloud infrastructure building blocks: compute, storage, networking, monitoring, security ,automation and inventory.
- Very strong with CICD, pipeline automation and DevOps, particularly with Terraform, GitLab and operational use case designs (like backup, application upgrade).
- Experience in the following technologies and domains would be desired:
- Expert knowledge of major cloud providers (AWS and GCP)and desirable experience in OpenStack ,hybrid and/or multi-cloud environments.
- Expert knowledge in automation tools like Terraform or Ansible.
- Expert knowledge in OS software such as Kubernetes, Kafka, ElasticSearch, Prometheus, Grafana, Kibana.
- Knowledge in security management and IT Service Management processes.
- Very good communication and soft skills to coordinate and interact with other internal teams.
- Able to travel and work in a very dynamic environment.
- Fluency in English.
