Remote SaaS Cloud Architect for AI-Driven Platform

Ofelia; Grenoble; Remote; EUR 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Ofelia in Grenoble, France, is seeking a Senior Cloud Architect to lead our cloud transition as we move to a full SaaS model. You will own the platform’s cloud architecture end-to-end, with AWS primary and a second provider, ensuring security, scalability, and multi-tenant design.

You will partner with Head of Architecture and Cloud/DevOps teams, mentor engineers, and define best practices, disaster recovery, and FinOps. The role is remote (100%) with global impact.

Qualifications

• Senior experience in cloud architecture and infrastructure, including production environments.
• Hands-on experience taking a SaaS product to production from its early stages.
• AWS certification required (Solutions Architect Professional preferred).
• Deep Kubernetes expertise: cluster architecture, Helm, operators, service mesh, security (RBAC, network policies, admission controllers).
• Strong automation background: Terraform (essential), Ansible, CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD).
• Multi-tenant architecture: tenant isolation, data modeling, onboarding flows.
• Operational resilience: disaster recovery (RTO/RPO), backup strategy, SLA/SLO definition.
• Data layer: managed databases, storage, and data migration.
• Cloud-native security: IAM, secrets management, encryption, audit practices (ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR).
• Solid grasp of microservices architecture, networking (VPC, DNS, load balancing), and observability (Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch...).
• Cost-conscious cloud engineering (FinOps): cost optimization and budget governance.
• Comfort integrating generative AI services in production (e.g., Amazon Bedrock or equivalent). Deep Bedrock experience is a strong plus.
• Daily, hands-on use of AI-assisted coding tools
• Nice-to-have: Certification on a second cloud provider (Azure, GCP)
• Nice-to-have: Familiarity with EU data residency/sovereignty requirements (GDPR)
• Nice-to-have: AI-assisted intelligent monitoring and alerting

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve the platform's multi-tenant cloud architecture with AWS as primary and a second provider.
• Define and promote architecture best practices: high availability, resilience, FinOps.
• Lead containerization and orchestration with Kubernetes, including cluster design and security.
• Industrialize provisioning with Terraform and CI/CD pipelines (GitOps).
• Integrate generative AI services, notably Amazon Bedrock, including governance.
• Own cloud security architecture with ISO 27001/SOC 2 and IAM, encryption.
• Define operational resilience: DR, backup strategy, SLA/SLO.
• Mentor and upskill DevOps and engineering teams.
• Maintain active technology watch and challenge architecture choices.
• Collaborate with Head of Architecture and Cloud/DevOps teams.

Skills

Cloud architecture

SaaS to production

Automation

Containerization

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

AI integration

Security

Education

AWS certification

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

GitLab CI

GitHub Actions

ArgoCD

Kubernetes

Helm

Prometheus

Grafana

CloudWatch

Job description

Ofelia in Grenoble, France, is seeking a Senior Cloud Architect to lead our cloud transition as we move to a full SaaS model. You will own the platform’s cloud architecture end-to-end, with AWS primary and a second provider, ensuring security, scalability, and multi-tenant design.

You will partner with Head of Architecture and Cloud/DevOps teams, mentor engineers, and define best practices, disaster recovery, and FinOps. The role is remote (100%) with global impact.