Senior Cloud Infrastructure Architect
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Location
Languages
Fluent English
Job Description
We're looking for an experienced Senior Cloud Infrastructure Architect to drive the technical vision for cloud-native and AI-powered enterprise infrastructure.
🎯 Responsibilities
- Provide strategic influence for Azure and AWS-based technology solutions to address complex business challenges.
- Collaborate with Cloud teams and leaders to develop long-term cloud strategy and vision.
- Enable implementation and governance of corporate Cloud strategy, ensuring alignment with Well Architected Framework pillars: Security, Cost Optimization, Operational Excellence, Reliability, and Performance Efficiency.
- Guide and govern architecture in partnership with development and architecture teams, sharing expertise, guidelines, and best practices.
- Define standards for networking (hub-spoke, VWAN, ExpressRoute/Direct Connect), identity (Entra ID, SCPs), and governance (Azure Policy, AWS Organizations, guardrails).
- Collaborate with Security, Data, and Networking teams to develop cross-infrastructure models across on-premises, cloud, and edge environments.
- Contribute to AIOps strategy, including intelligent monitoring, anomaly detection, predictive capacity planning, and automated remediation.
- Promote FinOps and AIOps synergies by applying AI-driven cost anomaly detection and rightsizing recommendations across business units.
- Enforce cloud automation standards defined by the Core team, supporting automation-first operations.
- Lead proofs of concept with external partners for new solutions, AI tooling, and infrastructure components.
- Act as a thought leader and collaborator with other teams to foster a DevSecOps and agile culture.
🛠️ Requirements
- Minimum 5 years of experience with large-scale cloud solutions.
- At least 3 years delivering Azure-based Cloud Platforms.
- Hands-on experience designing and governing enterprise Landing Zones and cross-functional cloud infrastructure across multiple accounts or subscriptions.
- Experience implementing AIOps practices such as AI-driven monitoring, automated remediation, and predictive operations.
- Strong background in cloud-native development, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Bicep), containers (Kubernetes), and CI/CD pipelines.
- Solid knowledge of cloud networking (hub-spoke, VWAN, ExpressRoute), security best practices (Zero Trust, policy-as-code), and observability platforms.
- Familiarity with AI/ML cloud services (Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, SageMaker) and MLOps workflows.
- Excellent communication skills for both technical and executive audiences.
- Strong project management, stakeholder engagement, and technology partner management skills.
- Mentoring and advisory abilities to support cloud engineers and architects.
- High level of English required.
Location
Calle del Príncipe de Vergara, 135, Madrid, Spain