Overview
The Cloud Architect ensures the consistency, scalability, and sustainability of cloud-native and hybrid infrastructures, aligned with ICT strategy and governance. The role acts as a Design Authority for public and private cloud architectures, governing key technical decisions across hybrid environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Define and validate the technical architecture of cloud-native and hybrid systems.
- Serve as Design Authority for cloud platforms and automation pipelines.
- Review and approve infrastructure designs for compliance with enterprise standards.
- Contribute to architectural guidelines, technical evaluations, and tenders related to cloud infrastructure.
- Define and enforce technical standards, reference architectures, and configuration baselines for all cloud infrastructures.
- Supervise documentation and ensure consistency of the cloud architecture landscape.
- Provide expert guidance, mentoring, and technical leadership to Solution Architects, Engineers, and Operations.
- Support the review and validation of solution designs.
- Act as an escalation point and participate in incident troubleshooting, diagnostics, and recovery during major events impacting cloud platforms.
- Lead proofs of concept for emerging technologies.
- Maintain architectural coherence across Engineering, Enterprise Architecture, Security Assurance, and Operations.
- Define and maintain architecture standards, blueprints, and patterns for hybrid cloud environments.
- Conduct design reviews, ensure governance compliance, and provide architectural sign-off.
- Promote collaboration and documentation through Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) and technical communities of practice.
- Contribute to the Platform Governance Framework.
Required Experience
- Minimum five years of experience in a large and complex IT enterprise environment.
- Proven experience as a Design Authority or Principal Architect for public and private cloud infrastructures.
- Demonstrated expertise in Kubernetes architecture, Infrastructure Automation, DevSecOps pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code.
- Practical experience providing escalation support for cloud platforms or infrastructure incidents.
- Experience with hybrid and multi-cloud architectures, GitOps workflows, and Zero-Trust / Policy-as-Code frameworks.
- Familiarity with Change, Configuration, and Incident Management processes.
Qualifications
- University degree or equivalent (three to four years of higher education) in a relevant domain.
- Certifications such as CKA / CKAD / CKS, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, or HashiCorp Terraform Associate are highly valued.
- ITIL Foundation or equivalent service-management certification appreciated.
