Cloud Architect

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Ireland.

📋 Description

• Lead the design and architecture of both new and existing Azure projects.

• Suggest solutions and evaluate designs to create consistent foundations that align with organizational needs and business goals.

• Assess infrastructure and applications to pinpoint optimization opportunities, strategies for cost reduction, and pathways for cloud migration.

• Manage Azure costs by analyzing cost drivers, budgets, alerts, Advisor reviews, and strategies for reservations and commitments.

• Develop and sustain reusable project templates and Infrastructure as Code modules.

• Identify and address gaps, risks, and blockers in architecture through continuous tenant reviews.

• Create, implement, and uphold cloud governance frameworks, security policies, and compliance standards.

• Work collaboratively with DevOps engineers, security experts, business stakeholders, project teams, and IT Operations.

• Convert business requirements into solution architectures and revise cloud standards as needed.

• Define and uphold standards for tagging, naming, and subscription structure.

• Collaborate with IT Security and workload teams to achieve and maintain demonstrable compliance with SOC 2, ISO 27001, or HIPAA.

• Assess and recommend cloud technologies, tools, and services, including containerization, orchestration, and infrastructure-as-code solutions.

• Supervise cloud infrastructure deployments to ensure scalability, reliability, and disaster recovery.

• Establish best practices for monitoring, performance enhancement, cloud resource management, and automated provisioning.

• Offer technical guidance and mentorship to development and operations teams on cloud architecture and cloud-native application design.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive experience in IT infrastructure, systems engineering, or cloud architecture.

• Significant hands-on experience in designing and managing Azure environments.

• Proven experience in a cloud architecture or senior technical capacity.

• In-depth, hands-on expertise in Azure architecture, including landing zones, management groups, networking, identity, storage, compute, and security.

• Experience in designing and constructing reusable deployment templates utilizing Infrastructure as Code, such as Bicep, Terraform, or ARM.

• Strong understanding of Azure cost management, encompassing cost drivers, budgets and alerts, reservations/savings plans, and Azure Advisor.

• Experience in defining and enforcing cloud governance frameworks, which include Azure Policy, management groups, RBAC, and tagging/naming standards.

• Experience in maintaining compliance with SOC 2, ISO 27001, or HIPAA, including the implementation of controls and audit evidence.

• Ability to translate architectural designs into operational requirements and collaborate with IT Operations on support models.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

• Familiarity with GxP and GAMP5 frameworks.

• Experience in supporting regulated, validated cloud systems.

• Preferred: experience with multi-cloud strategies and hybrid cloud architectures.

• Preferred: knowledge of Kubernetes and container orchestration platforms.

• Preferred: familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.

• Preferred: experience with cloud cost optimization and FinOps principles.

• Preferred: experience with serverless architectures and microservices design patterns.

• Preferred: background in enterprise application migration and modernization projects.

🏝️ Benefits

• Opportunity for remote work.

• Collaborative and inclusive workplace culture.

• Opportunities for personal growth and career development.

• Work alongside passionate experts in clinical research, pharmacovigilance, and quality consulting.

• Opportunity to contribute to safer pharmaceutical treatments for patients globally.