About the role
AI summarisedThales is a global technology leader trusted by governments, institutions, and enterprises to tackle their most demanding challenges. We are seeking a Cloud Architect to lead the design and adaptation of Digital Twin architectures in Azure Cloud and Singapore’s Government Commercial Cloud, ensuring compliance, resilience, and scalability for mission-critical systems.
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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 using Thales flavored Kubernetes Orchestration Platform to support hybrid workloads.
- Define strategies for hybrid and multi-cloud interoperability, data movement, and workload portability.
- Establish resilience, redundancy, and disaster recovery across multiple sites and cloud providers.
- Ensure cloud deployments adhere to government and industry regulations (e.g., IM8, GDPR, NIST).
- Integrate DevSecOps practices, zero-trust principles, and compliance-as-code into deployment pipelines.
- Define standardization Architect and standardize Kubernetes clusters across multi-cloud environments (AKS, RKE2, GCC Kubernetes services).
- Support the adoption of GitOps practices (ArgoCD, Flux) and IaC (Terraform, Helmfile, Crossplane) for cluster and workload management.
- Serve as a bridge between enterprise architecture, DevOps, and security/compliance stakeholders.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in cloud architecture with multi-cloud exposure (Azure required, GCC preferred).
- 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.
- Understanding of cloud compliance frameworks and acts (e.g., GDPR, IM8, NIST 800-53).
- Hands-on skills with IaC tools (Terraform, Helmfile, Ansible).
- Bachelors in Computer Science or Information Technology.