About the role

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Cloud Architect role at Thales, a global technology leader in aerospace, defense, and cybersecurity. The position involves designing and adapting Digital Twin architecture in Azure and Singapore's Government Commercial Cloud, leading Kubernetes platform engineering, ensuring compliance with regulations, and collaborating across enterprise architecture, DevOps, and security teams.

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Key Responsibilities

Lead the design and adaptation of Digital Twin architecture in Azure Cloud and Singapore's Government Commercial Cloud.
Architect systems of systems deployments (e.g., Air Traffic Management Solutions) using Thales flavored Kubernetes Orchestration Platform to orchestrate containers, virtual machines to support hybrid workloads.
Define strategies for hybrid and multi-cloud interoperability, data movement, and workload portability (e.g., RMA analysis, data-in-transit, IAM, WAF/secrets management).
Establish binary portability / compatibility across releases, ensuring the releases are compliant to requirements and regulatory frameworks.
Establish resilience, redundancy, and disaster recovery across multiple sites and cloud providers.
Establish KPIs to measure systems resiliency, cloud consumption costs
Ensure cloud deployments adhere to government and industry regulations (e.g., IM8, GDPR, Data Protection Acts, NIST).
Define data classification, residency, and sovereignty models in line with jurisdictional laws.
Integrate DevSecOps practices, zero-trust principles, and compliance-as-code into deployment pipelines.
Implement audit, monitoring, and logging solutions aligned with regulatory requirements (e.g., CIS benchmarks).
Define standardization Architect and standardize Kubernetes clusters across multi-cloud environments (AKS, RKE2, GCC Kubernetes services).
Define golden paths for workload deployment, service mesh integration, and API interoperability across the Azure Cloud and GCC.

Requirements

Bachelors in Computer Science or Information Technology.
Masters degree in Computer Science or Data Science.
7+ years of experience in cloud architecture, with multi-cloud exposure (Azure required, GCC preferred) and familiar with Identity Solutions, RBAC, Policies, Regions and AZs, Storage.
Proven expertise in Kubernetes architecture and operations in production environments.
Strong knowledge of networking, identity management, and security controls across Azure and GCC.
Demonstrated experience in designing mission-critical, highly available systems-of-systems; an experience in orchestrating and scaling services at scale is considered equivalent.
Understanding of cloud compliance frameworks and acts (e.g., GDPR, IM8, NIST 800-53, Cloud Act, Data Protection Acts).
Hands-on skills with IaC tools (Terraform, Helmfile, Ansible).
Certifications: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305), CKA/CKAD, CISSP, CCSK.
Familiarity with service meshes ( Istio , Linkerd ) and secure API gateways.
Background in DevSecOps, SRE, or platform engineering practices.
Possess learning agility, flexibility and pro-activity
Comfortable with agile teamwork and user engagement