Cloud Solution Architect

Job Title: Cloud Solution Architect

Location: Munich, Germany (Hybrid for 3days/week)

Job Type: Permanent

Language: English Fluent & German (from B2 to C2 level)

Job Description:

Key responsibilities:
Overview:
We are seeking a hands-on Cloud Solution Architect (AWS/Azure) to drive enterprise cloud adoption, platform engineering, and project incubation. This role requires a grounded, execution-oriented professional who can seamlessly bridge the gap between strategic business goals and technical reality. Operating as a trusted partner, you will spend 2 to 3 days per week Embedded on-site with our enterprise clients. In this role, you will not just propose architectures; you will actively build, prototype, and physically incubate them. By combining practical, hands-on engineering with out-of-the-box thinking, you will play a critical role in identifying the right modern toolsets and fast-tracking the AI Cloud adoption journey for our customers.

Key Responsibilities:

On-Site Migration & Platform Planning: Spend 2-3 days per week on-site with clients mapping Legacy workloads, architecting secure enterprise landing zones, and designing comprehensive migration strategies.
Hands-on Prototyping & Automation: Actively build, configure, and automate infrastructure components using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to incubate projects, moving them from architectural diagrams to live, provisioned environments.
Cloud Modernization: Lead modernization initiatives, designing fully serverless or containerized (EKS/AKS) architectures, and implementing automated cost-optimization strategies.
AI Toolset Evaluation: Actively evaluate and identify modern, emerging AI-driven tools that can optimize platform management, accelerate migration discovery, or automate repetitive infrastructure tasks.
Mentorship & Enablement: Serve as a trusted advisor, creating comprehensive documentation and providing detailed guidance to help upskill and enable client engineering teams.

Technical Skill Profile:

Cloud & Platform Engineering (Core Focus)
Enterprise Cloud Architecture: Deep, certified expertise in AWS and/or Microsoft Azure.
Platform & Landing Zones: Strong, demonstrable experience designing secure enterprise landing zones using Account Factory for Terraform (AFT) or similar multi-account automation frameworks.
Migration Strategies: Extensive track record planning and executing enterprise migrations for Legacy systems (including on-prem to cloud and Citrix-to-cloud transitions).
Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Advanced capabilities with Client Terraform and AWS CloudFormation/Azure Resource Manager to automate complex cloud environments from scratch.
Networking: Proficient in cloud-native networking solutions, including multicast, VPCs, subnets, routing, and security group design.

Modernization & DevOps

Containerization & Serverless: Hands-on experience designing and building solutions with container orchestrators (eg, EKS, AKS) and fully serverless architectures.
Automation & Scripting: Strong capability in Scripting (Python, Bash, or Go) to build custom automation, integrate cloud APIs, and manage infrastructure dynamically.
Disaster Recovery (DR): Experience designing and implementing robust DR environments to ensure enterprise business continuity.

Cultural Fit Profile (The Ideal Persona)

Humble Authority: Mature, reliable, and technically strong.
Customer Empathy: A natural ability to build trust on-site with enterprise clients, understanding their internal politics, Legacy constraints, and technical goals.
Continuous Learner: Possesses a genuine curiosity for emerging platform technologies and AI-based infrastructure operations, with a proven ability to quickly learn and adapt.
Risk-Aware & Autonomous: Has a strong project delivery record, is comfortable navigating ambiguous environments, and can proactively identify platform and security risks before they become issues.