AWS Senior Cloud Architect

Company Description

As Hungary’s most attractive employer in 2025 (according to Randstad’s representative survey), Deutsche Telekom IT Solutions is a subsidiary of the Deutsche Telekom Group. The company provides a wide portfolio of IT and telecommunications services with more than 5300 employees. We have hundreds of large customers, corporations in Germany and in other European countries. DT-ITS recieved the Best in Educational Cooperation award from HIPA in 2019, acknowledged as the the Most Ethical Multinational Company in 2019. The company continuously develops its four sites in Budapest, Debrecen, Pécs and Szeged and is looking for skilled IT professionals to join its team.

Job Description

  We are looking for an experienced Senior Cloud Architect with a strong engineering background and deep experience in multi-cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP), including Kubernetes-based platforms.

You will partner closely with customers, SRE teams, and internal stakeholders to design reliable cloud architectures that accelerate delivery pipelines and simplify operations.

As a bridge between business requirements and technical implementation, you will champion automation, build reusable IaC templates and utility tools, design secure cloud networks, and drive customer success.

You will combine hands-on engineering depth with architectural leadership to operate platforms at scale, while helping the team adopt emerging AI capabilities as a growth area.

Qualifications

Key Requirements
Cloud & Platform Architecture

• Extensive experience designing and operating enterprise-scale cloud platforms.
• Deep AWS expertise with working knowledge of Azure and/or GCP.
• Strong understanding of multi-region, highly available, and disaster recovery architectures.
• Experience with cloud migrations, modernization programs, and AWS Well-Architected Framework reviews.
• Knowledge of AWS Organizations, Control Tower, multi-account strategies, and landing zones.

Networking

• Strong knowledge of cloud networking, TCP/IP, routing, DNS, VPNs, and hybrid connectivity.
• Expertise with AWS networking services including VPC, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, Route 53, CloudFront, PrivateLink, and Load Balancers.
• Experience designing hybrid and multi-cloud network architectures.
• Understanding of network security, zero-trust principles, and microsegmentation.

Kubernetes & Container Platforms

• Hands-on Kubernetes experience in production environments.
• Expertise with EKS and at least one additional platform (AKS, GKE, or OpenShift).
• Experience with cluster lifecycle management, multitenancy, service mesh, networking, and workload identity.
• Strong GitOps experience (ArgoCD/Flux), Helm, and Kustomize.

Infrastructure as Code & Automation

• Advanced Terraform skills and experience building reusable IaC modules.
• Strong CI/CD, GitOps, and automation experience.
• Ability to create operational tooling, self-service platforms, and policy-as-code solutions.

Engineering & Operations

• Strong software engineering background with proficiency in Python or similar languages.
• Experience with DevOps and SRE practices including observability, SLIs/SLOs, incident management, and toil reduction.
• Ability to participate in critical incident response and drive operational improvements.

Security & Cost Optimization

• Strong understanding of AWS security services, IAM, encryption, and compliance frameworks (GDPR, ISO 27001, CIS).
• Experience with FinOps, cloud cost optimization, TCO analysis, and budgeting.

AI & Innovation

• Interest in applying AI and Generative AI to cloud operations and automation.
• Familiarity with services such as Amazon Bedrock, SageMaker, or similar platforms is a plus.

Soft Skills

• Strong customer-facing communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Fluent English required; German is a plus.

Additional Information

Ideal Candidate

• You are an experienced Cloud Architect with a strong engineering mindset and deep expertise in AWS, networking, Kubernetes and automation.
• You enjoy solving complex platform challenges, working directly with customers, building reusable solutions, and driving operational excellence.
• You combine technical depth with strong communication skills and are passionate about cloud-native technologies, automation, and continuous improvement.

 
Preferred Certifications

• Professional-level AWS certifications (or equivalent experience). Kubernetes is a plus.
• Terraform, CKA/CKAD/CKS, networking, or security certifications are advantageous.

* Please be informed that our remote working possibility is only available within Hungary due to European taxation regulation.