Cloud Architect

About the role
We are looking for a Senior Cloud Architect based in Toulouse to lead the design and evolution of our cloud infrastructure across AWS and GCP. You will set the technical direction for cloud, ensure our platforms are secure, resilient, scalable and cost-efficient, and work closely with engineering, security, DevOps and business teams.

Key responsibilities
Architecture design
• Design and validate solution architectures on AWS and GCP (compute, networking, storage, databases, messaging, serverless) that meet performance, high-availability and scalability requirements.
• Define reference architectures, design standards and guardrails for the whole organisation.
• Shape our multi-cloud and hybrid cloud strategy, including network connectivity, identity and central governance.
• Evaluate and select cloud services and technologies that fit business needs. Migration and modernisation
• Plan and lead migrations of on-premise systems to the cloud (rehost, replatform, refactor).
• Modernise applications towards microservices, containers (Kubernetes/EKS/GKE) and event-driven architectures.
• Design Disaster Recovery, backup and business continuity solutions. Security and compliance
• Work with the security team to apply Zero Trust principles, least-privilege IAM, data encryption and secrets management.
• Ensure compliance with relevant standards and regulations (GDPR, ISO 27001, SOC 2, and sector-specific requirements, including EU data residency where needed). Cost optimisation and operations
• Build and run a FinOps practice: track, allocate and optimise cloud spend.
• Set Observability standards (logging, monitoring, tracing, alerting) and SLOs/SLIs.
• Promote Infrastructure as Code and automation through CI/CD. Required qualifications
• At least 5-7 years of experience in infrastructure or software engineering, including at least 4 years as a Cloud Architect or equivalent.
• Deep hands-on experience with AWS or GCP, and solid working knowledge of the other.
• Strong command of cloud networking (VPC, subnets, routing, VPN, Direct Connect/Interconnect, load balancing, DNS).
• Experience designing distributed, highly available, fault-tolerant and scalable systems.
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform required; CloudFormation or Pulumi a plus).
• Experience with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Solid understanding of cloud security principles, IAM and identity management.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines and working in a DevOps/GitOps culture.
• Excellent communication skills, able to present technical solutions to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Fluent English (working language of the team); French.
• Right to work in France, ready to work onsite in Toulouse Nice to have
• Certifications: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional, Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect, CKA/CKAD, or Terraform Associate.
• Experience with data platforms and analytics (BigQuery, Redshift, Dataflow, Glue, Kafka).
• Experience with AI/ML infrastructure (SageMaker, Vertex AI, GPU workloads).
• Experience in regulated or high-assurance sectors such as aerospace, defence, space, finance or healthcare, which are well represented in the Toulouse area.
• Familiarity with French or European trusted-cloud frameworks (for example SecNumCloud).
• FinOps experience or FinOps Practitioner certification.
• Experience leading a team or acting as Tech Lead.

What we offer
• Competitive salary, depending on experience.
• Hybrid working: on site in Toulouse, with flexible remote days.
• Training budget, cloud certification support and conference attendance.
• Modern equipment, an autonomous engineering environment and large-scale projects.
• A clear growth path towards Principal Architect or Head of Cloud Platform.