Senior Cloud & System Architect (m/f/d)

WEPA; Düsseldorf; Remote; EUR 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Interdisciplinary team

Creative ownership culture

Personal growth

Flexible work model

Modern office in Düsseldorf

Job summary

WEPA.digital is seeking a Senior Cloud Architect (m/f/d) to design and implement hybrid Azure/on-premise infrastructure. You will shape scalable, resilient architectures that align with business goals and optimize cloud and data center costs.

In an agile environment, you will collaborate with IT, development, and business teams, translate requirements into concrete cloud solutions, and lead initiatives across VMware vSphere, Proxmox, and Azure services.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in cloud and system architecture with Azure focus.
• Hands-on with VMware vSphere and Proxmox.
• Experience designing large-scale hybrid cloud and on-premise solutions.
• Azure certifications (e.g., Azure Solutions Architect Expert) desirable.
• Strong team collaboration and agile practices.
• Excellent English skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy hybrid cloud/on-prem architectures on Azure and VMware/vSphere.
• Translate business needs into scalable, cost-effective infrastructure.
• Lead cost, performance, and security optimization across environments.
• Maintain integration between on-prem and Azure services.
• Evolve virtualization platforms and disaster recovery strategy.
• Stay updated on Azure offerings and virtualization trends.
• Develop governance and best practices for cloud infrastructure.
• Contribute to a broad range of digital projects (Industry 4.0, RPA).

Skills

Cloud architecture

Azure

VMware vSphere

Proxmox

Hybrid cloud

Cost optimization

Agile methods

English

Education

Bachelor's/Master's in CS/IT

Tools

VMware vSphere

Proxmox

Azure

Job description

Our digital innovation centre WEPA.digital is looking for a new team member:

Senior Cloud Architect (m/f/d)

WEPA.digital is an agile environment for young-minded change makers and technology enthusiasts with a passion for engineering the digital tomorrow of our company. Key to our mission is a central platform spanning cloud and on-premise technology that serves as the backbone for our connected future. With a cutting-edge technology stack, we not only fuel our business with data and drive better decisions. Our hybrid infrastructure also empowers us to make leaps forward by enabling powerful use cases from real-time analytics to low code automations and custom software solutions.

With your experience across cloud and on-premise infrastructure and your hands-on mentality, you will design, implement and optimize hybrid architectures that are scalable, resilient and aligned with our business goals. You will ensure that our infrastructure - from the data center to the cloud - is agile, secure and cost-effective, enabling us to innovate and stay ahead in the digital age.

Hybrid working: up to 95% remote possible; 5% on-site in Dusseldorf/Arnsberg required

Your Tasks

• You design and deploy enterprise-level cloud and on-premise architectures on Microsoft Azure and our virtualized data center (VMware/vSphere, Proxmox) to support us in our digital transformation by advancing the implementation of our WEPA.cloud
• You translate business requirements into hybrid infrastructure solutions, ensuring they align with the company's objectives and IT strategy by collaborating in an agile setting with IT, development, and business teams
• You lead initiatives to optimize infrastructure cost, performance, and security across both cloud and on-premise environments
• You architect and maintain the integration between on-premises infrastructure (virtualization, storage, networking) and Azure services, ensuring seamless hybrid connectivity
• You design and evolve our virtualization platforms (VMware vSphere, Proxmox), including compute, storage, and disaster recovery strategy
• You stay updated with Azure's latest offerings as well as developments in virtualization and system architecture, leveraging them to drive innovation and efficiency
• You develop and implement cloud and infrastructure governance, best practices, and standards, and mentor teams on Azure and on-premise system architecture
• You work on a broad variety of digital technology projects (including Industry 4.0, Robotic Process Automation, etc.)

Your Profile

• Qualification: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
• Personality: Ability to work in a team, flexibility, motivation
• Working: Independent, team-oriented and structured work
• Experience and Know-how:
  • At least 10 years of hands-on experience in cloud and system architecture, with a focus on Microsoft Azure and enterprise virtualization platforms
  • Solid hands-on experience with VMware vSphere, Proxmox, and on-premise infrastructure design (compute, storage, networking)
  • Demonstrated success in designing and implementing large-scale hybrid cloud and on-premise solutions
  • Azure certifications, such as Azure Solutions Architect Expert, are highly desirable; VMware certifications (e.g., VCP) are a plus
  • Strong proponent of agile methodologies and practices
  • Ability to translate business needs into actionable cloud and infrastructure solutions
• Languages: Very good English skills.

What else we offer

• Team: Become an important part of an interdisciplinary and international team of technology experts and solution developers.
• Creativity & Responsibility: We keep the hierarchy as low as possible and give room for creativity; we want people who take ownership of topics and successfully implement them.
• Personal development: We give you room to grow personally, discover new strengths and develop your skills.
• Flexible working: We work at the times and places that allow us to realize our projects in the best possible way.
• Modern working environment: Our modern office in downtown Dusseldorf provides the framework for creative and contemporary work. And good work requires good equipment - that's why you can choose your own equipment.

Become a crucial part of our interdisciplinary and international team of technology experts!

The WEPA Group is a family business operating throughout Europe and offers sustainable and innovative hygiene solutions that contribute to the well-being of millions of consumers all over Europe every day. With around 4.500 employees, we produce hygiene paper products such as toilet paper, towel paper, handkerchiefs and napkins at 15 production sites in Europe.

A sustainable personnel policy has played a central role in this for more than 75 years.

We consistently invest in the qualification of our employees, point out individual career and development opportunities and promote them. We do this because we are convinced of one thing:

Our employees are and will remain our most important success factor.