Technical Cloud Azure Architect

Project overview

A major omnichannel retail player is strengthening the Technical Architecture team that supports its Digital Factory. You will work in tandem with an existing architect: you will share the topics and cover for each other during holidays.

The team functions as a service provider: business units and squads come with their needs, sometimes with choices already made, and often with tight deadlines. Your role is to help them move forward quickly while maintaining a framework. It is not about validating or rejecting their requests.

Your missions

The technical environment

Profile sought

This mission is probably not for you if:

• Qualify requests from the Digital Factory on an ongoing basis: opening flows, creating accounts, new functionality on AKS, container for a new service...
• Distinguish between a request that can be delivered simply and a real project, and identify structural dependencies (capacity, flow, security).
• Frame and estimate topics, carry out feasibility studies, and produce architecture documents (DAT / HLD).
• Write specifications for the Infra, Network, and Security teams, who will carry out the work. You will stay close to the implementation without doing it.
• Support projects following the "Get to Prod" process, in conjunction with the project manager.
• Participate in squad rituals when relevant.
• Azure (core of the mission): PaaS primarily, AKS, Azure networking (VNet, hub & spoke, Private Endpoints).
• On-premise: networking, security, virtualization.
• Exposure: Akamai and DataDome (WAF, bots), F5 Big-IP (load balancing).
• GCP: occasionally, for data (BigQuery, Cloud Run). Basic familiarity is sufficient.
• Databases: SQL Server, PostgreSQL, CosmosDB.
• CI/CD and IaC: GitLab CI, Terraform.
• Monitoring: Datadog, Centreon, ELK.
• Approximately 10 years of experience, including solid experience as a technical or cloud architect.
• Azure practiced in infrastructure-related missions (PaaS, AKS, networking), not just through certification.
• A solid on-premise foundation: networking, security, virtualization (VMware).
• Experience in qualifying internal team requests and writing specs for other teams.
• Pragmatic and adaptable, with a service-oriented mindset: you help business units realize their choices instead of challenging them.
• A plus: experience in retail, e-commerce, or a lightly regulated environment.
• your core business is governance, enterprise architecture (TOGAF), a CCoE, or a Design Authority;
• you are a software or application architect, a pure network or security expert, or a data architect;
• you have not yet practiced Azure in a mission.

Project details

• Start: ASAP
• Duration: 12 mois renouvelable
• Remote: hybrid
• Location: Île-de-France, France, FR
• Rate: 88-88 EUR/h
• Languages: French