Senior Cloud Architect

Description

The company runs and redesigns mission-critical technology systems for large businesses around the world, combining proven expertise with AI-driven insight to support faster decisions and innovation.

The team works on purposeful projects and offers a flexible setting where well-being is a priority and people can grow.

Responsibilities

• Connect customers' business needs to their IT strategy, using architectural models and views to show how those needs can be met in an agile, sustainable and flexible way.
• Build a high-level, enterprise-wide IT architecture that maps IT capabilities to business needs, working directly with customers on their specific challenges.
• Keep customers satisfied by sharing deep knowledge of the company's solutions, strategy and direction as they relate to each customer's business, infrastructure and industry.
• Work with a range of customers on their strategic technology decisions, helping them reach their goals.
• Design and implement cloud solutions for production workloads that are reliable, scalable and secure.
• Support cloud assessments, current-state analysis, application and infrastructure discovery, and clarification of technical requirements.
• Guide the delivery of secure, scalable and reliable cloud solutions across enterprise environments.
• Apply security and compliance frameworks such as SOC2, HIPAA, GDPR, ISO27001 and CIS.
• Build and manage container architectures, for example with Kubernetes and OpenShift.
• Develop automation with infrastructure as code.
• Support DevSecOps work, including CI/CD pipelines, code repositories, automated controls, security checks and deployment automation.
• Work with cross-functional teams to produce solution designs and technical roadmaps.
• Influence customers and sell the company's solutions, drawing on your technical knowledge and your understanding of their business and industry.

Requirements

• Show a growth mindset and drive your own personal and professional development.
• Put customer success first in your work.
• Work openly with others and include everyone in how you collaborate.
• 4+ years of hands-on experience designing and implementing cloud solutions.
• Strong knowledge of core cloud services.
• Experience coaching or leading technical teams or workstreams in transformation, migration, modernization or infrastructure projects.
• Ability to work effectively in customer-facing delivery settings.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to speak with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Fluent Italian and good English communication.
• Preferred: certifications on one or more major cloud platforms, such as Azure, AWS or Google Cloud.
• Preferred: experience supporting pre-sales, solutioning or technical proposal work.
• Preferred: experience with Agile delivery, technical governance, design authority boards or architecture review processes.
• Preferred: experience in hybrid cloud or multi-cloud environments.
• Preferred: experience working closely with engineers and architects in hands-on cloud delivery and customer-facing projects.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or equivalent experience.
• Preferred knowledge: cloud platforms and certifications (Azure, AWS or GCP).
• Preferred knowledge: virtualization and hybrid infrastructure (VMware).
• Preferred knowledge: containers and platform services (Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift).
• Preferred knowledge: automation and DevOps.
• Preferred knowledge: security, resilience and governance.

Conditions

Governed by the Italian National Collective Bargaining Agreement for the Metalworking Industry, with classification as Quadro.

May be offered as a permanent employment contract (contratto a tempo indeterminato).

Salary range in Italy is € 60.060,00 to € 107.900,00 for a full-time schedule at the time of posting. The level and pay within the range depend on factors such as geographical tier, job-related skills, education and experience.

Pay for part-time roles will be adjusted accordingly.

Hybrid-friendly working culture.

Equal opportunity: all backgrounds are welcome, and candidates are encouraged to apply even if they do not meet every requirement.

Benefits

• Be Well programs supporting financial, mental, physical and social health.
• Tools to plan your career path, personal development goals aligned with your ambitions, and regular feedback.
• Learning opportunities, including certifications with Microsoft, Google and Amazon, coaching and hands-on experience.
• Career growth from Junior Architect to Principal Architect, with hands-on experience and learning opportunities.