Cloud Solution Architect (m/f/d)

Overview

We are seeking a hands-on Cloud Solution Architect AWS Azure to drive enterprise cloud adoption, platform engineering, and project incubation. This role requires a grounded, execution-oriented professional who can seamlessly bridge the gap between strategic business goals and technical reality.

Operating as a trusted partner, you will spend 2 to 3 days per week embedded on-site with our enterprise clients. In this role, you will not just propose architectures; you will actively build, prototype, and physically incubate them.

By combining practical, hands-on engineering with out-of-the-box thinking, you will play a critical role in identifying the right modern toolsets and fast-tracking the AI Cloud adoption journey for our customers.

Key Responsibilities

� On-Site Migration Platform Planning: Spend 23 days per week on-site with clients mapping legacy workloads, architecting secure enterprise landing zones, and designing comprehensive migration strategies.

� Hands-on Prototyping Automation: Actively build, configure, and automate infrastructure components using Infrastructure as Code IaC to incubate projects, moving them from architectural diagrams to live, provisioned environments.

� Cloud Modernization: Lead modernization initiatives, designing fully serverless or containerized EKSAKS architectures, and implementing automated cost-optimization strategies.

� AI Toolset Evaluation: Actively evaluate and identify modern, emerging AI-driven tools that can optimize platform management, accelerate migration discovery, or automate repetitive infrastructure tasks.

� Mentorship Enablement: Serve as a trusted advisor, creating comprehensive documentation and providing detailed guidance to help upskill and enable client engineering teams.

Technical Skill Profile

Cloud Platform Engineering Core Focus

� Enterprise Cloud Architecture: Deep, certified expertise in AWS andor Microsoft Azure.

� Platform Landing Zones: Strong, demonstrable experience designing secure enterprise landing zones using Account Factory for Terraform AFT or similar multi-account automation frameworks.

� Migration Strategies: Extensive track record planning and executing enterprise migrations for legacy systems including on-prem to cloud and Citrix-to-cloud transitions.

� Infrastructure as Code IaC: Advanced capabilities with HashiCorp Terraform and AWS CloudFormationAzure Resource Manager to automate complex cloud environments from scratch.

� Networking: Proficient in cloud-native networking solutions, including multicast, VPCs, subnets, routing, and security group design.

Modernization DevOps

� Containerization Serverless: Hands-on experience designing and building solutions with container orchestrators e.g., EKS, AKS and fully serverless architectures.

� Automation Scripting: Strong capability in scripting Python, Bash, or Go to build custom automation, integrate cloud APIs, and manage infrastructure dynamically.

� Disaster Recovery DR: Experience designing and implementing robust DR environments to ensure enterprise business continuity.

Cultural Fit Profile The Ideal Persona

� Humble Authority: Mature, reliable, and technically strong.

� Customer Empathy: A natural ability to build trust on-site with enterprise clients, understanding their internal politics, legacy constraints, and technical goals.

� Continuous Learner: Possesses a genuine curiosity for emerging platform technologies and AI-based infrastructure operations, with a proven ability to quickly learn and adapt.

� Risk-Aware Autonomous: Has a strong project delivery record, is comfortable navigating ambiguous environments, and can proactively identify platform and security risks before they become issues

On-Site Migration Platform Planning: Spend 23 days per week on-site with clients mapping legacy workloads, architecting secure enterprise landing zones, and designing comprehensive migration strategies.