Senior Azure Cloud Architect & Platform Lead

Expleo Group; Lisboa; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Expleo Group is seeking a senior Cloud Architect to lead cloud infrastructure strategy across enterprise platforms. You will design secure, scalable architectures on Azure, drive IaC pipelines, and collaborate with global teams to deliver resilient solutions.

The role requires strong leadership, fluent English, and the ability to influence stakeholders while guiding best practices in security, observability, and modernization across IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS layers.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in cloud infra, platform/enterprise architecture.
• Solid experience with Microsoft Azure and Enterprise Cloud Architecture (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS).
• Design secure, scalable cloud architectures with HA, DR, networking, identity, security.
• IaC with Terraform; automation, GitHub, CI/CD; analyze and validate solutions.
• Knowledge of cloud-native architectures, Kubernetes, containers, APIs, data platforms.
• Understanding cybersecurity, DevOps, and AI-related cloud services; assess risks and options.
• Strong leadership, communication with stakeholders; ability to present to technical and non-technical teams.
• Fluent in English; highly organized, autonomous, collaborative.

Skills

7+ years in Cloud Infra/Platform/EA

Azure & Enterprise Cloud Architecture

Security, HA, DR in cloud

Cloud-native, Kubernetes

Leadership & stakeholder communication

English fluency

Tools

Terraform

GitHub

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Job description

Expleo Group is seeking a senior Cloud Architect to lead cloud infrastructure strategy across enterprise platforms. You will design secure, scalable architectures on Azure, drive IaC pipelines, and collaborate with global teams to deliver resilient solutions.

The role requires strong leadership, fluent English, and the ability to influence stakeholders while guiding best practices in security, observability, and modernization across IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS layers.