Cloud Service Architect Advanced
AltiaAltia is a high-value digital transformation services company that has undertaken, changed, and reformulated international projects for nearly a thousand clients, leaders in their sectors, who have understood that their businesses can be revolutionized through digitalization. Over its 30 years of experience, it has proven to be a robust company with a future, a capacity for innovation, and adaptability.
We are looking for an experienced Cloud Services Architect Advanced to lead the architecture, implementation, operation, and continuous improvement of cloud services supporting critical enterprise platforms, primarily focused on Grant Management/eGrants and Compass Corporate solutions.
The candidate will play a key role in designing scalable, secure, resilient, and cost-effective cloud environments while driving modernization initiatives, cloud governance, automation, and operational excellence across complex business-critical systems.
This position requires a strong combination of cloud architecture expertise, software engineering knowledge, security best practices, and DevSecOps capabilities.
🌍 Location: Remote / Far-site with occasional on-site presence in Brussels, Belgium.
Key Responsibilities
We are looking for an experienced Cloud Services Architect Advanced to lead the architecture, implementation, operation, and continuous improvement of cloud services supporting critical enterprise platforms, primarily focused on Grant Management/eGrants and Compass Corporate solutions.
The candidate will play a key role in designing scalable, secure, resilient, and cost-effective cloud environments while driving modernization initiatives, cloud governance, automation, and operational excellence across complex business-critical systems.
This position requires a strong combination of cloud architecture expertise, software engineering knowledge, security best practices, and DevSecOps capabilities.
🌍 Location: Remote / Far-site with occasional on-site presence in Brussels, Belgium.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and evolve cloud architectures for enterprise-grade applications and platforms.
- Define and implement cloud landing zones, governance guardrails, and security baselines.
- Lead cloud migration and modernization initiatives from legacy and on-premises environments.
- Design scalable networking architectures and secure connectivity models.
- Establish cloud security controls aligned with industry standards and regulatory requirements.
- Define and implement observability solutions including monitoring, logging, tracing, and operational dashboards.
- Design and validate disaster recovery and business continuity strategies, including RTO/RPO objectives.
- Drive cloud cost optimization initiatives through FinOps practices, budgeting, forecasting, and resource governance.
- Collaborate with development teams to implement DevSecOps, CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code.
- Design integration architectures using APIs, event-driven patterns, and messaging systems.
- Support operational excellence across production environments and contribute to continuous service improvement.
- Provide technical leadership, architecture governance, and mentoring to engineering teams.
- EQF Level 7 qualification or equivalent.
- Minimum 10 years of professional experience in Information Technology.
- Demonstrated experience in the architecture, design, and implementation of complex IT solutions.
- Professional proficiency in English or French (minimum B2+).
- Strong experience with at least one major cloud platform ( AWS, Microsoft Azure, OVH Cloud)
- Experience with VMware and Hyper-V.
- Containerization and orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Azure Bicep)
- Scripting expertise in: Python, Bash PowerShell
- Cloud security architecture and implementation.
- Networking design and security.
- Knowledge of (GDPR, CIS Benchmarks, ISO 27001)
- Authentication and authorization mechanisms: OpenID Connect (OIDC), JWT, Digital Certificates
- Strong backend development background with: Java, Python, Spring Boot, Hibernate
- Experience with cloud-native databases and managed database services.
- Strong understanding of:
- APIs
- Integration patterns
- Event-driven architectures
- Apache Kafka
- DevSecOps methodologies.
- CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
- Monitoring, logging, and operational support practices.
- FinOps, cloud budgeting, forecasting, and cost governance.
- Cloud landing zones and enterprise governance frameworks.
- Advanced observability platforms and distributed tracing solutions.
- Disaster Recovery (DR) and Business Continuity Planning (BCP).
- Digital certificate lifecycle management.
- Legacy Java Enterprise technologies: Oracle WebLogic, EJB, JMS, JIRA and Confluence.
- Agentic AI architectures and LLM integration.
- AI-powered developer productivity tools such as: Amazon Q and Kiro
- Enterprise SaaS platforms: Microsoft Power Platform and ServiceNow