Cloud Platform Architect Azure

Together with the Business Cloud Services team, the Azure Cloud Architect will define, design and govern secure, scalable and resilient cloud solutions on Microsoft Azure, enabling cloud-native platforms and business-critical services across multiple business domains and environments. The Azure Cloud Architect will drive technology standards, architecture best practices and cloud adoption strategies, ensuring alignment between business requirements, security, compliance and operational excellence while supporting engineering teams throughout the solution lifecycle.The role requires an automation-first mindset and close collaboration within an international Scrum team across Spain, Germany and India., * Analysis of business and technical requirements and translate them into secure, scalable, resilient cloud architectures across public and sovereign cloud environments.

• Design and own end-to-end cloud solutions covering compute, networking, storage, data, security, identity, observability, integration.
• Architect cloud-native solutions across multiple providers, including AWS, Azure, SysEleven and other public or sovereign cloud platforms, selecting the right services and technologies for each use case.
• Design architectures for sovereign and regulated workloads, addressing data residency, isolation, encryption, compliance, portability, and operational control.
• Evaluate and integrate AI/ML and GenAI capabilities, including AI platforms, model hosting, data pipelines, vector databases, inference workloads, and associated security and compliance requirements.
• Define technical specifications and architecture decisions, leveraging Infrastructure as Code and GitOps.
• Collaborate closely with other architects, product engineering, platform, DevOps, SRE, security, and data teams to turn requirements into implementable solutions and resolve complex technical challenges.
• Identify and mitigate architecture risks, technical dependencies, security and operational concerns, maintaining architecture documentation, ADRs, blueprints, and standards.

• At least Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related field
• 10+ years in infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, SRE, or architecture roles, with 5+ years focused on production-scale Kubernetes and public cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, sovereign/Open Stack)
• Deep expertise in Kubernetes (architecture, operators, CNI/service mesh, multi-cluster federation, upgrades at scale).
• Strong hands-on experience, including complex multi-account and multi-region architectures and integrations within public cloud ecosystems.
• Proficiency in IaC (Terraform preferred), GitOps, containerization (Docker), CI/CD tooling, and observability (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/ OpenTelemetry).
• Solid understanding of databases (relational, NoSQL, distributed), networking (VPC, SDN, load balancing, firewalls), and security best practices (RBAC, secrets management, encryption, vulnerability scanning).
• Proven track record defining non-functional requirements and delivering high-availability, performant, secure systems on public cloud platforms.

• Culture and Diversity: Join a people oriented environment with different nationalities and a great team spirit, flat hierarchies (everyone speaks to everyone). Equal Opportunity Employer and LGBT+ friendly.
• Global Collaboration: Enjoy collaborative work in Agile/SCRUM teams and with stakeholders around the globe.
• Open working space with Best-in-class equipment: High-performance PC with huge monitors.
• Innovative Products: Design and develop business processes and IT solutions for innovative products and digital solutions.
• Career Development: Continuous training and coaching, talent program.
• Social Benefits: flexible compensation (transport tickets, childcare vouchers, training, private insurance) and in-house parking.
• Flexible work time and remote work: M-Th 8.30 - 17.30 and Fri 8.30 - 15.30, hybrid model.
• Own Canteen: Take a break with our breakfast and lunch service: Choose between a big range of menus, salad desk and sandwich service. Fruit packages.
• Location: El Prat de Llobregat. Easy communication by public transport (Bus 88 and 110, Metro L10 Riu Vell from Barcelona, PR4 from El Prat) o private transport.

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