Cloud Architect

Full Time
Bucharest / Flexible Office Hours

The Cloud Architect is accountable for establishing and evolving core cloud platform foundations on Microsoft Azure. This role focuses on building secure, scalable, and repeatable cloud capabilities – so product and data teams can move fast without breaking things. This is a hands-on architecture role with clear ownership of cloud landing zones, identity and access management, secure connectivity, observability, and shared data platform resources.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

Cloud Platform Foundations

  • Design, implement, and maintain an Azure application landing zone, including subscription strategy, network topology, security baselines, policies, and cost controls.
  • Define and operate cloud architecture guardrails and “golden paths” that enable team autonomy while maintaining platform consistency.
  • Own and evolve reference architectures for cloud-native workloads and shared platform services.

 

Secure Connectivity & Networking

 

  • Design and implement secure network connectivity patterns between Azure and external environments, including Mendix Cloud, private datacenters, and third-party service providers.
  • Define standards for network segmentation, private connectivity, ingress/egress control, and traffic inspection.
  • Ensure connectivity solutions are resilient, observable, and aligned with security and regulatory requirements.
  • Partner with vendors and internal teams to establish clear ownership and operational models for cross-boundary connectivity.

 

Identity, Security, and Access

 

  • Establish platform-level identity and access management as a shared service, including Azure Entra External ID and brokering with external identity providers.
  • Define access models, role-based access control, and trust boundaries across internal and external workloads.
  • Work closely with security and governance stakeholders to embed security controls into platform foundations.

 

Observability & Operational Excellence

 

  • Define and implement platform-wide observability standards (logging, metrics, tracing, alerting) across internal and connected external services.
  • Embed observability into CI/CD pipelines and engineering workflows to support incident response and operational learning.
  • Collaborate with DevOps and platform teams to enable resilience, automated recovery, and operational readiness.

 

Data Platform Enablement

 

  • Co-own the cloud foundations for the company’s data platform, including secure data services, access patterns, and operational guardrails.
  • Support high-throughput, reliable, and secure data exchange between internal platforms and external systems.

 

Architecture Leadership

 

  • Conduct architecture reviews focused on enabling delivery, managing risk, and making clear, timely decisions.
  • Produce clear, pragmatic documentation that teams actually use.
  • Mentor engineers through hands-on collaboration and by delivering concrete reference implementations.
  • Stay current on cloud and platform technologies, evaluating new capabilities where they create real operational or business value.

 

Skills and Qualifications

  • 5+ years’ experience in cloud architecture or senior cloud engineering roles.
  • Deep, hands-on expertise with Microsoft Azure (networking, identity, security, IaaS, PaaS).
  • Proven experience designing and implementing cloud landing zones and secure network architectures.
  • Practical experience with hybrid and multi-environment connectivity (e.g. cloud-to-cloud, cloud-to-datacenter, third-party integrations).
  • Strong experience with cloud identity and access management, including federation with external identity providers.
  • Practical experience implementing platform-wide observability.
  • Solid understanding of DevOps practices, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code.
  • Experience with container platforms (e.g. Kubernetes / AKS) and cloud-native architecture patterns.
  • Ability to balance architectural rigor with delivery pragmatism.
  • Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills.

 

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