Principal Cloud Architect
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Job Summary
Founded in Switzerland in 1968 Zühlke is owned by its partners and located across Europe and Asia. We are a global transformation partner with engineering and innovation in our DNA. Were trusted to help clients envision and build their businesses for the future to run smarter today while adapting for tomorrows markets customers and communities. Our multidisciplinary teams specialise in tech strategy and business innovation digital solutions and applications and device and systems engineering. We excel in complex regulated spaces including health and finance connecting strategy tech implementation and operational services to help clients become more effective resilient businesses.
If you share our values and want to do the best work for the right reasons we can offer you the chance to do it on a global scale and play a real role in shaping our exciting journey.
The Role
As a Principal Cloud Architect you will lead the definition and evolution of the AWS-based platform. You will be responsible for ensuring the platform is secure compliant observable and optimised for developer experience. You will establish golden paths reusable patterns and governance-ready delivery workflows using Harness enabling squads to build efficiently on the Next Gen platform. Your work will form the foundation for scalable reliable and compliant product delivery across the organisation.
How youll make impact
- Designing You will create secure scalable and resilient AWS landing zones network architectures and multi-account environments that support long-term platform growth.
- Enabling You will act as a platform product owner understanding developer needs and delivering tools workflows and automation that improve productivity and reliability.
- Standardising You will define golden paths infrastructure-as-code standards and governance patterns that ensure consistency and compliance across teams.
- Protecting You will embed security auditability and operational resilience into every layer of the platform supporting regulatory and risk requirements.
- Uplifting You will coach and support platform engineers driving adoption of best practices and improving engineering maturity across squads.
Whats important to us
- Platform leadership You have experience leading platform engineering initiatives in regulated or complex environments.
- Cloud expertise You bring strong hands-on experience with AWS services including compute networking security and data platforms.
- Automation mindset You are highly proficient in Terraform CloudFormation or CDK and enjoy building reusable scalable solutions.
- Delivery excellence You have deep experience with CI/CD pipelines and modern delivery tooling ideally Harness or similar platforms.
- Reliability focus You understand SRE principles observability and operational resilience and apply them in real-world environments.
- Security & compliance awareness You have experience embedding governance audit and regulatory controls into platform design.
- Collaborative approach You work closely with engineering security and compliance teams and enjoy enabling others to succeed.
- Transformation experience You have supported large-scale platform or cloud transformation initiatives through automation and standardisation.
What we offer
- Work life blend: we offer a safe & healthy workplace with flexible working hours and the possibility to work from home
- Profit share scheme: In addition to your annual salary you may receive a profit share defined by the companys success in the previous year
- Global and Diverse Zühlke community: witness how colleagues from all our 16 offices across the globe come together to create a unique positive and inclusive work culture learning from one another at annual team camps and celebrating year-end parties and other local festivities.
- Committed to development: we are committed to the growth of our people and are investing in your development. Were empowering you to build the skills you need to make a positive impact both personally and for our clients today and in the future.
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How to Apply
Important: To ensure a smooth review process please submit all application documents (CV cover letter) in English only.
If you feel you dont meet all the requirements we are still happy to get to know you learn more about your ambitions and ideas and look forward to receiving your application!
We welcome people from all backgrounds regardless of their gender personality national origin race religion colour sexual orientation gender identity age marital status disability or veteran status.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Key Skills
- Kubernetes
- S3
- Google Cloud Platform
- Cassandra
- System Architecture
- Redshift
- AWS
- Cloud Architecture
- NoSQL
- UML
- Kafka
- Distributed Systems
About Company
We are a global transformation partner with an engineering and innovation DNA, blending strategy, tech and operations for resilient, effective businesses.
