About the role
AI summarisedThales is seeking an Aviation Cloud Solutions Architect for their AVS Innovation Lab to design scalable, secure, and resilient cloud architectures for digital platforms and innovation projects. The role involves defining infrastructure patterns, selecting cloud services, and providing technical guidance for cloud-native development in the aerospace domain.
Aerospace & DefenseFull-timeGeneral
Key Responsibilities
- Define infrastructure patterns for distributed applications and data service
- Select appropriate cloud services and deployment strategies
- Design scalable and resilient cloud architectures of the Lab's platforms and innovation demonstrators, thinking out of the box, and work collaboratively with the rest of the team to build a shared approach consensus
- Provide technical guidance for cloud-native development and deployments
- Lead cloud-related technical projects when required
Requirements
- Typically 5+ years in cloud architecture or distributed platform engineering
- Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or IT, or equivalent experience
- Background in aerospace, avionics, airline operation IT systems or air traffic management
- Strong experience designing cloud-native architectures
- Experience in AWS / Azure / GCP, Kubernetes, container platforms, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), microservices architectures, CI/CD pipelines.
- Messaging broker middleware / COTS packages such as Kafka producer / consumer and Kafka Streams, MQ, ...
- Capabilities to assess the cybersecurity of cloud technologies, architectures and deployments (e.g. how things are connected and potential risk areas)
- Knowledge of several programming languages (e.g. Python, C/C++, Kotlin, TypeScript, Ada or Java 6) or frameworks (React, Swing)
- Enjoy translating complex operational and technical needs into robust architectures
- Demonstrated experience guiding small teams and / or junior software engineers