About This Role
This Cloud Architect role involves designing and implementing secure, scalable, and cost-effective cloud solutions. The person in this role will lead cloud migration efforts, ensure compliance, and drive DevOps automation, working with various stakeholders to modernize enterprise applications.
Responsibilities
- Design secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-effective cloud architectures
- Define cloud roadmaps, standards, and modernization recommendations
- Lead assessment and migration of applications and data from on-premises environments to cloud platforms
- Define appropriate migration and modernization approaches
- Establish security controls, governance, identity and access practices, and alignment with applicable organizational and data privacy requirements
- Track cloud consumption and spending, identify optimization opportunities, and promote effective resource governance
- Work with development and infrastructure teams to implement IaC, CI/CD, automation, and cloud-native operating practices
- Provide technical guidance, knowledge transfer, and training
- Communicate architecture decisions effectively to local and regional stakeholders
Requirements
- 6-12 years of experience
- 5+ years of cloud infrastructure and architecture experience
- Hands-on capability in at least one major platform: AWS, Azure, GCP, or Alibaba Cloud
- Infrastructure as Code and DevOps automation experience
- Fluent spoken Cantonese and strong written and spoken English
- Enterprise stakeholder management and communication skills
- Kubernetes, Docker, and container orchestration platforms
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM Templates, Ansible)
- CI/CD tools such as Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab
- Cloud networking, security, IAM, and governance frameworks
- Disaster Recovery (DR), High Availability (HA), and Business Continuity Planning
- Cloud cost optimization and FinOps practices
- Enterprise application modernization and migration methodologies
Nice to have:
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect or equivalent cloud certification
- Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, or Alibaba Cloud architecture certification
- Experience with Kubernetes, containers, and CI/CD platforms
- Mandarin language capability
- Experience supporting large enterprise or regulated environments
- FinOps and cloud cost-governance experience
Important Details
- Contract: 1 year fixed-term