About the job

We are digital builders born in the cloud and currently, we are looking for a Senior Azure Cloud Architect.

Joining Nordcloud is the chance of a lifetime to leave your mark on the European IT industry! We use an agile, cloud-native approach to empower clients to seize the full potential of the public cloud.

As a Senior Azure Cloud Architect at Nordcloud, you will work on various customer projects, from building a new infrastructure to migrations, audits and Big Data. The daily work can include everything from implementing a configuration management infrastructure to conducting workshops and design recommendations for a technical team. You will also become a trusted advisor to well-known companies and manage the customer relationships, and roadmap together with the Nordcloud sales team.

Your daily work:

• Technical consultant for developers and Azure users
• Contribute to the design and implementation of cloud infrastructure solutions and services that meet the needs of our customers
• Communication with stakeholders and participation in coordination meetings
• Creation of innovative PoC
• Automating the cloud environment with CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as a Code
• Definition and implementation of security strategies
• Migration of on-premises workloads to cloud environments and modernization of old solutions to cloud-native technologies

Your skills and attributes of success:

• Practical Azure experience from successfully implemented projects and knowledge of the various Azure Platform Services.
• DevOps “toolkit” and mindset
• Experience with infrastructure as code frameworks (e.g. Terraform, Bicep or Pulumi)
• Knowledge of container technologies (Kubernetes, Docker, EKS) and/or configuration management systems (Ansible or similar).
• Experience in the administration of Windows and/or Linux servers or back-end development
• Ability to create and present solution architectures in terms of availability, performance and cost
• Good command of scripting languages (Powershell, Bash, Python…)
• Fluent communication skills in English; German or French is an advantage
• If you don’t meet all of the desired criteria, but still fit most of the requirements, we encourage you to apply anyway. Let’s find out together if we are a good fit for each other!

What do we offer in return?

• A highly skilled multinational team
• Individual training budget and exam fees for partner certifications (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud) and additional certification bonus covered by Nordcloud
• Access to join and the possibility to create knowledge-sharing sessions within a community of leading cloud professionals
• Flexible working hours and freedom to choose your tools (laptop and smartphone) and ways of working
• Freedom to work fully remotely within the country of Switzerland
• Local benefits such as 27 days holiday allowance, sports benefits, and many more