Cloud Architect

Job summary

The Cloud Architect provides technical leadership and design authority for public, private, and hybrid cloud environments, ensuring architectures are scalable, secure, reliable, and aligned with enterprise governance. The role defines standards, validates infrastructure and automation designs, advises engineering and operations teams, and supports major incident response. It also leads proofs of concept and cloud transformation initiatives using technologies and practices such as Kubernetes, Terraform, GitOps, AWS, and DevSecOps.

Qualifications

• At least five years of experience in a large, complex IT enterprise environment.
• Experience as a design authority or principal architect for public and private cloud infrastructure.
• Expertise in Kubernetes architecture, infrastructure automation, DevSecOps pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Experience providing escalation support for cloud platforms or infrastructure incidents.
• Experience with hybrid and multi-cloud architectures, GitOps, Zero Trust, and Policy as Code.
• Familiarity with change, configuration, and incident management processes.
• University degree or equivalent in a relevant domain.
• Fluency in English; working knowledge of French is highly desirable.
• Knowledge of Arabic or Spanish is an asset.
• Strong leadership, analytical, problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Define and validate architectures for cloud-native and hybrid systems.
• Serve as design authority for cloud platforms and automation pipelines.
• Review infrastructure designs for compliance with enterprise standards.
• Define cloud architecture standards, reference architectures, and configuration baselines.
• Maintain architecture documentation, deployment traceability, and version control.
• Promote declarative, automated, and immutable infrastructure practices.
• Advise and mentor solution architects, engineers, and operations teams.
• Support major cloud incidents through escalation, troubleshooting, diagnostics, and recovery.
• Lead proofs of concept for technologies such as multi-cluster federation, workload identity, and service mesh.
• Conduct design reviews, ensure governance compliance, and provide architectural sign-off.
• Maintain architectural coherence across engineering, enterprise architecture, security, and operations.

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