Senior Cloud Architect (m/f/d)

Job summary

Designs, scales, and maintains resilient, secure AWS and multi-cloud infrastructure for enterprise clients, including high availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery. The role drives modernization, FinOps, cloud governance, and automated delivery using Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, GitHub Actions, and GitLab CI, while advising senior stakeholders and mentoring implementation teams.

Benefits

Qualifications

• Background as a Cloud and Infrastructure Architect with technical leadership and advisory experience.
• Hands-on expertise in AWS architecture, Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, and CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions or GitLab CI.
• Knowledge of cloud security and governance, including IAM, Zero-Trust architecture, landing zones, and compliance guardrails.
• Experience with GCP or Azure and complex enterprise IT environments is an advantage.
• Proficiency in English and German.

Responsibilities

• Design, scale, and maintain highly available, fault-tolerant, and disaster-recoverable AWS and multi-cloud infrastructure.
• Assess legacy systems and security policies to recommend modernization paths.
• Drive cost optimization and FinOps through architecture analysis, tagging, monitoring, and resource sizing standards.
• Implement cloud security and governance practices, including IAM, RBAC, Zero-Trust networking, landing zones, account hierarchies, and compliance guardrails.
• Automate cloud provisioning and configuration management with Terraform, CloudFormation, and Ansible.
• Integrate cloud deployment pipelines with GitHub Actions and GitLab CI.
• Advise senior engineering leaders and C-level stakeholders, and mentor cross-functional implementation teams.

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