Cloud Architect

**Job Description**:
Ready for new challenge? Fed up with bureaucracy, hierarchy, and politics? Hungry for freedom to act, decide and make an impact in a professional environment? Arηs Spikeseed is looking for a Cloud Architect (M/F) to expand its Cloud Centre of Excellence.

The Cloud Architect will advise customers who want to use the cloud, perform deep Proofs of Concept of new cloud technologies, and communicate findings to inform the decision making.

As a Cloud Architect, you will work closely with:

- Various centers of excellence such as Mobile, Ai/ML/Bi
- Other solution architects requiring assistance in specific use cases
- Customers from private and public sector

**Role & Responsibilities**
- Architecture and design of information systems hosted on the cloud
- Audit and review of existing architectures while actively challenging your peers
- Design of re-usable architecture blueprints and building blocks
- Documentation and presentation of lessons learned from your different cloud missions
- Participation in technical working groups/teams, progress meetings and meetings with the customer
- Assistance during relevant parts of testing, analysis, technical documentation, deployment, evaluation and reporting
- Contribute to the Arηs Spikeseed Cloud Center of Excellence
- Participate actively in our thought leadership initiatives in form of blog posts or events
- The 6 pillars of the Well Architected Framework are your daily bread and butter, and you actively live them
- Execution of Proof-of-Concepts and support of Pre-Sales activities such as writing of commercial proposals

**Your Profile**
- University degree in Informatics related studies, or equivalent by experience
- +3 years of working experience with Amazon Web Services or Azure in Enterprise scale environments
- + 7 years of working experience as a Technical Architect in complex environments
- Experience in Site Reliability Engineering is an added value
- Exceptional customer focus / Customer service experience
- Good redaction skills
- Ability to participate in multilingual meetings
- Ability to understand, speak and write English, French is asset
- Ability to work in a team and act as Leader/Supervisor
- Ability to care about the “details”
- Ability to work in multi-cultural environment, on llarge project

**Technical skills**
- Ability to cope with fast changing technologies used in Cloud architecture and design and fast adoption of multi-cloud
- Very good knowledge of at least one CSP, AWS or Azure, including their infrastructure-as-code technology (CloudFormation or Azure Resource Manager templates or abstractions layers like Terraform)
- Very good knowledge of at least one strongly typed object-oriented language (ie., Java, C#)
- Good knowledge of security-oriented cloud services, including Azure Security Center or equivalent
- Knowledge of micro services architecture design, development, deployment and instrumentation
- Knowledge of interoperability technology (e.g. message oriented middleware, Event Hubs or similar)
- Knowledge of both relational and non-relational data stores
- Knowledge of Application Performance Management
- Knowledge of resilient and traceable distributed systems
- Ability to give technical presentations
- Capability of integration in an international/multicultural environment
- Bonus : you are AWS or Azure certified

Additional Information
**ARȠS?**

Arηs is a fully **independent** group of companies specialized in managing complex **IT projects and systems** for **large organisations**, focusing on state-of-the-art software development, business intelligence and infrastructure services.

We are composed of 17 entities across 9 countries that are unified by the Arηs Group, with more than **2500 consultants**.

This corporate structure enables us to respond quickly to market changes and customer requests, and to communicate and make decisions without layers of bureaucracy.

Our success can be attributed to the synergy among our nine complementary entities, combined with our methodologies, which are based on the Rational Unified Process (RUP) and the Scrum agile software development framework.

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Our Vision and Values_**

Our vision is to be the most caring and reliable IT company on the market place for both clients and our people.

Our values are**:caring, agility, excellence, innovation, continual improvement, and reliability**.

Our values support our vision by leveraging excellence, striving for results, ensuring commitment and promoting adaptability.

**_ Our Culture_**

We work in close partnership with our customers, turning their needs into benefits; We promote a dynamic local environment where both young and experience people can realize themselves; We leverage a flexible, independent and responsive organization.

**_ Our Brand_**

The ArȠs (pronounce [aris]) name comes from Greek Mythology. ArȠs is the son of Zeus and the God of War - in our eyes, an accurate representation of the intelli