Senior Cloud Architect - AWS

🚀 #WEAREALTIA

ALTIA is a multidisciplinary team delivering advanced data-driven solutions in international environments. We combine analytics, artificial intelligence, and business expertise to help organizations evolve through innovation, scalable platforms, and technological excellence.

We are looking for a Senior Cloud Architect (AWS) to support the design, implementation, security, and continuous improvement of cloud infrastructure for an International & European Public Sector initiative.

The role involves designing scalable, secure, and resilient cloud architectures using Infrastructure as Code (AWS CloudFormation), leading cloud operations, multi-account management, DevOps, CI/CD automation, and SRE principles, while leveraging AI-assisted tools.

⭐ WHAT WE HAVE FOR YOU?

🚩 Far-site / Remote work model (EU-based with full-time availability aligned with Geneva/CET business hours and potential short-term onsite missions to Geneva, Switzerland).

⏰ Flexible working hours.

📈 Long-term stable position with high-impact professional growth in international public sector projects.

💪 Integration into an experienced, highly skilled international team.

💙 Inclusive and innovation-driven work environment.

📋 REQUIREMENTS

Educational Level & Experience:

Total IT Experience: Minimum 10+ years.

AWS Architecture: Minimum 5+ years of hands-on experience designing, deploying, and operating AWS production workloads, including multi-account environments.

Core Requirements:

Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Strong expertise in AWS CloudFormation.

Software Development & Scripting: Practical experience in Python, TypeScript/Node.js, or Java.

DevOps & Containers: Proven experience with DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, Docker, Linux, and scripting.

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE): Solid knowledge of observability, SLOs, incident management, resilience, backup, and disaster recovery.

Cloud Security & FinOps: Solid understanding of cloud security best practices (least privilege, encryption, secrets management) and cost optimization.

AI-Assisted Engineering: Daily use of AI-assisted tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, code assistants, or AI agents).

Languages: Excellent written and spoken English (CEFR C1+ level).

🛠️ TECHNICAL & FUNCTIONAL EXPERIENCE

Solution & Cloud Architecture: Multi-account architecture, serverless, container orchestration, networking, database design, and architecture review.

IaC & Automation: Development and deployment of CloudFormation templates via CI/CD pipelines across Dev, Acc, and Prod environments.

Security & SRE: Remediating security findings, network isolation, observability (metrics, logs, traces, dashboards), and incident response.

Release Strategies: Supporting containerized deployments and automated releases (Blue/Green, Canary).

🧰 TECHNOLOGIES & SKILLS

AWS Core: IAM, VPC, EC2, S3, CloudFront, Route 53, Lambda, API Gateway, ECS/Fargate, RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, KMS, Secrets Manager.

IaC & DevOps: AWS CloudFormation, Docker, Git, Bamboo, Bitbucket, CI/CD pipelines.

Monitoring & Scripting: CloudWatch, X-Ray, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Python, TypeScript, Java.

Security & AI: GitHub Copilot / AI agents, SonarQube, SAST/SCA tools.

Methodologies: Agile (Scrum), Jira, Confluence.

💡 NICE TO HAVE:

Experience with AWS CDK and Terraform.

Experience with Java, Angular, and Node.js web applications.

Background in international organizations, UN agencies, or the public sector.

Active AWS Certifications (Solutions Architect Pro, DevOps Engineer Pro, or SysOps Admin).

This job offer has been drafted taking into account impartiality and non-discrimination in accordance with applicable equality regulations.