Cloud Architect

We are seeking an Azure Architect to lead design and adoption of secure, scalable, and cost‑efficient cloud platforms and modern application architectures. Responsible for designing, building and evolving a secure, enterprise-grade cloud platform on Microsoft Azure. You will lead architectural decisions, implement modern infrastructure automation, and guide teams in adopting cloud-native practices. This position blends hands-on engineering with architectural leadership, stakeholder engagement, and operational ownership of a mission-critical platform used across the organization aligned to Finnish/EU regulatory and security requirements.

Key Job Responsibilities:

• Designing and architecting Azure solutions, Cloud Adoption Framework, Cloud Platform design
• Drafting and presenting Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) to Architecture Review Board
• Drive platform engineering foundations (golden paths, developer self‑service portals, reusable modules).
• Establish end‑to‑end observability strategy: metrics, logs, traces, SLOs/SLIs, golden signals, synthetic monitoring, and APM.
• Lead cloud adoption roadmaps, business cases, and FinOps practices; mentor teams on SRE and reliability engineering.
• Run architecture reviews, backlog shaping, and decision records (ADR); coach product teams toward platform standards.
• Embed zero‑trust principles, identity‑first security (Entra ID/Azure AD), Key Vault, and service mesh mTLS.
• Hands-on implementation of IaC and pipelines
• Kubernetes and ArgoCD related development and configuration
• Overall roadmap and sprint planning facilitation
• Presenting platform developments to customer teams and supporting them as necessary
• Participating in support, production changes, and deployments as part of tier 3
• Interaction with stakeholders (risk and compliance, security, Cyber Security, Enterprise Architecture board)

Experience & Skills Requirements:

Must have:

• Experience with Kubernetes and Azure (AKS, ACR, managed ids, key vaults, Redis, log analytics, Azure monitor, Prometheus) in a strict policy controlled environment, preferably in the finance sector
• Development experience with Bicep, Azure DevOps pipelines, GitHub workflows, bash, python, and developer tooling in general (git, vscode, AI tooling or similar)
• SRE experience (production responsibility, observability, resilience, DR and BCP)
• Experience with working in agile and facilitation of agile ceremonies (sprint planning, backlog refinement, dailies, retrospectives)

Good to have:

• Experience with GitOps patterns beyond ArgoCD (Flux, CrossPlane)
• Exposure to financial regulatory frameworks (eg EBA , DORA)
• Knowledge of zero trust architectures and enterprise security patterns
• Experience with multi-region or hybrid cloud architectures
• Familiarity with cost optimization and FinOPs practices