Senior Cloud Architect

Package Description

• Competitive Salary
• Corporate Benefits Package
• Chance to make a positive difference in a company passionate about diversity and inclusion.

Further information available from the Serco Europe Recruitment Team

Job Introduction

Serco is the preferred partner for European Institutions and International Organisations, offering ICT services and Contact Centre management across Europe. Our expertise extends from Information System support to consultancy under the government framework, supporting key entities such as the European Commission and Executive Agencies. As a leader in Service Integration and Management, we ensure seamless delivery of services across various platforms, embodying our commitment to excellence in every aspect of our work.

We are hiring a Senior Cloud Architect for European Commission in Brussels and various locations around Europe.

Main Responsibilities

Meet the DPP stakeholders to collect the infrastructure requirements (functional and non-functional)

Create designs and blueprints of cloud architecture, prioritising the components that will bring the most benefits for the Digital Product Passport project.

Advise on the most appropriate cloud services, ranking them and emphasizing advantages and disadvantages of each

Design and develop architecture components and building blocks using cloud components.

Proof of Concept, prototyping of infrastructure solutions, including the use of cloud-native services and features. Participate in coordination and project meetings.

Collaborate with other contractors or teams working on various aspects of the DPP IT system implementation or policy development.

Provide expert technical assistance on the managed cloud service providers and their services : technical guidance, troubleshooting, performance optimisation, monitoring.

Ensure that the cloud architecture comply with security best practices, including the ones of the Commission.

Bring specific expertise in many cloud services providers and the full range of services they deliver, with strong experience in designing, deploying, and maintaining projects in those environments.

Ensure that the cloud architecture is implemented at the expected levels of security, performance, reliability and availability.

Investigate and solve complex infrastructure cloud related issues

Ensure that the documentation is always up to date

Define a deployment strategy, make sure that the changes are properly tested before deployment and that the roll-outs happen without negative impacts.

Validate the release plans and communication making sure that stakeholders are aware of the changes to come, what is expected of them, and how the changes impact them.

Ensure a continuous improvement approach, implementing feedback loops to iterate

Successful Candidate

LEVEL OF EDUCATION

Bachelor's or Master's degree

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

SPECIFIC EXPERTISE

Minimum 15 years' experience on large, enterprise-level multi-user Information Systems.

Minimum 15 years' experience in deployment and release management

Minimum 10 years' experience in DevOps container and / or serverless orchestration tools

Minimum 10 years' experience in Agile methodology

Minimum 10 years' experience with JIRA

Minimum 10 years' experience with Git

Minimum 10 years' experience with Jenkins

Minimum 10 years' experience with Confluence

Minimum 5 years' experience in multi-cloud architecture

Minimum 5 years' experience with Docker

Minimum 5 years' experience with Kubernetes

Minimum 5 years' experience with SonarQube

Minimum 5 years' experience with the monitoring tool Nagios

Minimum 5 years' experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, OVH)

Minimum 5 years' experience with blockchain based infrastructure

CERTIFICATIONS :

Certified DevSecOps Professional (CDP), AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional, Microsoft DevOps Engineer Expert, or Google Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer. or The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) certification.