SaaS Cloud Architect — Remote, Kubernetes & FinOps Lead

Ofelia; Paris; Remote; EUR 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Ofelia is seeking a Senior Cloud Architect to lead the cloud transition as the company moves to a full SaaS model. You will own the cloud architecture, security, and scaling strategy in collaboration with the Head of Architecture and platform teams.

You’ll drive design, governance, and implementation of multi-tenant cloud services, containers, and automation, with a focus on reliability, cost control, and AI integration.

Qualifications

• Senior cloud architecture experience in production environments.
• Hands-on SaaS product deployment experience.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve the platform's multi-tenant cloud architecture (tenant isolation, data models, onboarding flows), robust, scalable, and secure, with AWS as the primary provider and a second cloud provider
• Define and promote architecture best practices: high availability, resilience, cost optimization (FinOps)
• Lead containerization and orchestration with Kubernetes (cluster design, networking, security, observability, lifecycle management)
• Industrialize provisioning and deployments through Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and CI/CD pipelines (GitOps)
• Integrate and operationalize generative AI services, notably Amazon Bedrock (model selection, RAG, AI usage governance)
• Own the cloud security architecture, in partnership with our Information Security Officer, who covers ISO 27001/SOC 2 compliance: IAM, encryption, network segmentation, cluster hardening, threat modeling
• Define operational resilience practices: disaster recovery (RTO/RPO), backup strategy, SLA/SLO
• Mentor and upskill the DevOps and engineering teams
• Maintain active technology watch and challenge existing architecture choices

Skills

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

CI/CD

GitLab CI

GitHub Actions

ArgoCD

Cloud architecture

Security best practices

FinOps

Education

AWS Certification (Solutions Architect Professional)

Tools

AWS

Prometheus

Grafana

CloudWatch

Helm

Terraform

ArgoCD (GitOps)

Job description

Ofelia is seeking a Senior Cloud Architect to lead the cloud transition as the company moves to a full SaaS model. You will own the cloud architecture, security, and scaling strategy in collaboration with the Head of Architecture and platform teams.

You’ll drive design, governance, and implementation of multi-tenant cloud services, containers, and automation, with a focus on reliability, cost control, and AI integration.