N -Cloud Architect | Mission Cloud Souverain (IT) / Freelance

Job summary

The Senior Cloud Architect defines, evolves, and governs a sovereign cloud platform operated in France, ensuring security, resilience, performance, and regulatory compliance. The role designs large-scale architectures and supports project and operations teams, contributing to transformation, automation, feasibility studies, and complex issue resolution across OpenStack, Kubernetes, infrastructure, networking, storage, and security.

Qualifications

• Strong experience with private or sovereign cloud environments.
• Expertise in large-scale cloud infrastructure.
• Broad knowledge of infrastructure, networking, security, and operations.
• Experience with critical environments requiring high availability and compliance.
• Strong communication, coordination, and technical leadership skills.
• Professional English and ability to work in a multicultural environment.

Responsibilities

• Define and govern the target architecture for a sovereign cloud platform.
• Design complex cloud, infrastructure, virtualization, networking, and storage architectures.
• Advise project and operations teams on technical choices, architecture standards, and best practices.
• Ensure consistency across OpenStack, Kubernetes, storage, networking, security, and operations services.
• Contribute to transformation programs and cloud service evolution.
• Conduct feasibility studies, architecture reviews, and impact analyses.
• Ensure compliance with sovereignty, security, and regulatory requirements.
• Produce architecture documentation, technical standards, and design documents.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, operations, security, networking, and DevOps teams.
• Support automation, industrialization, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Manage technical risks and resolve complex issues.

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