Senior Azure Cloud Architect - Lead Scalable, Secure Cloud

HBK - Hottinger Brüel & Kjær; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

HBK (Hottinger Brüel & Kjær) seeks an IT Senior Cloud Architect to lead design, governance, and ongoing management of our cloud environment. You will define technical direction, ensure security, scalability, and cost-efficiency while partnering with engineering, security and operations teams to deliver robust SaaS/PaaS solutions.

You will mentor engineers, promote Infrastructure as Code, and drive automation, resiliency, and disaster recovery planning across the organization.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in cloud architecture or related senior role.
• Proven experience designing and implementing large-scale enterprise cloud solutions.
• Azure-focused with AWS experience beneficial.
• Strong understanding of cloud security, IAM, encryption and zero-trust concepts.

Responsibilities

• Design and own the overall cloud architecture, including topology, accounts and governance.
• Translate business needs into scalable, secure cloud architectures and deployments.
• Define security practices and enforce IAM, network security and data protection requirements.
• Establish cost governance and monitor cloud spend with FinOps.
• Drive Infrastructure as Code adoption and automation to improve speed and reliability.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Azure

AWS

IAM

Zero-trust

Python

Go

CI/CD

Networking

English fluency

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Bicep/ARM

Docker

Kubernetes

VPN

Job description

HBK (Hottinger Brüel & Kjær) seeks an IT Senior Cloud Architect to lead design, governance, and ongoing management of our cloud environment. You will define technical direction, ensure security, scalability, and cost-efficiency while partnering with engineering, security and operations teams to deliver robust SaaS/PaaS solutions.

You will mentor engineers, promote Infrastructure as Code, and drive automation, resiliency, and disaster recovery planning across the organization.