Cloud Architect

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

📋 Description

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

• Provide recommendations and assess designs to ensure robust, repeatable foundations that align with organizational needs and business goals.

• Examine current infrastructure and applications to uncover optimization possibilities, strategies for cost reduction, and pathways for migration to cloud environments.

• Manage Azure costs, including understanding cost drivers, budgets, alerts, Advisor assessments, and strategies for reservations or commitments.

• Create and sustain reusable project templates along with Infrastructure as Code modules.

• Identify and address architectural gaps, risks, and obstacles through regular tenant evaluations.

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

• Collaborate with DevOps engineers, security experts, business stakeholders, and IT Operations regarding solution architecture, standards, support, and compliance.

• Establish and maintain standards for tagging, naming, and subscription structures.

• Partner with IT Security and workload teams to implement controls and ensure demonstrable compliance with SOC 2, ISO 27001, and 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 capabilities.

• Set best practices for monitoring, performance optimization, cloud resource management, and automated provisioning.

• Offer technical guidance and mentorship on cloud architecture patterns and cloud-native application design.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive background in IT infrastructure, systems engineering, or cloud architecture, with substantial hands-on experience in designing and managing Azure environments.

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

• Deep, practical expertise in Azure architecture, including landing zones, management groups, networking, identity, storage, compute, and security.

• Established capability to design and create reusable deployment templates using Infrastructure as Code tools like Bicep, Terraform, or ARM.

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

• Experience in defining and implementing cloud governance frameworks, such as Azure Policy, management groups, RBAC, and tagging/naming conventions.

• Proven track record of maintaining compliance with SOC 2, ISO 27001, or HIPAA, including implementing controls and providing audit evidence.

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

• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a history of resolving complex cloud infrastructure challenges.

• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, capable of explaining technical nuances to non-technical audiences.

• Familiarity with GxP and GAMP5 frameworks, alongside experience supporting regulated validated cloud systems.

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

• Preferred: knowledge of Kubernetes and container orchestration platforms.

• Preferred: understanding of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.

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

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

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

🏝️ Benefits

• Availability of remote work options.

• A collaborative and diverse team environment.

• Opportunities for professional growth.

• Mentorship and technical guidance.

• Chance to contribute to efforts that help provide safe and effective pharmaceutical treatments to patients.