Cloud Architect - ThoughtLabs Belgium

Your tasks: Architect and implement secure, interoperable solutions using standard frameworks and design patterns, integrating application and infrastructure to achieve scalability and efficiency; Develop robust, vendor-agnostic data platforms for AI and machine learning workloads and optimizing multi-cloud environments for performance and flexibility; Design of structured MLOps pipelines automating and streamlining the models’ lifecycle, from development to serving; Design security architectures that protect infrastructure and applications, aligning with risk management strategies and regulatory data protection and security standards; Continuously assess and optimize system performance and scalability using advanced metrics and predictive analytics; Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including AI developers, business analysts and IT operations, to ensure architecture aligns with business objectives and technological capabilities; Establish CI/CD pipelines to support rapid application development and deployment in dynamic 2 environments, utilizing infrastructure-as-code and configuration management tools; Ensure seamless system integration and cross-platform compatibility through strategic API design, interoperability testing and continuous benchmarking Requirements: University degree in IT or relevant discipline, combined with minimum 15 years of relevant working experience in IT; Experience in containerization and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes for scalable application deployment; Experience in network architecture design, particularly integrating distributed systems with hybrid cloud solutions; Experience with advanced load balancing solutions and caching technologies (e.g. Redis) to support high-traffic applications; Experience with relational and non-relational databases, optimizing them for high-volume transaction processing (e.g., Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB); Excellent knowledge of version control systems like Git and integration platforms such as Jenkins, GitLab CI; Knowledge of advanced monitoring tools like Prometheus and Grafana to enhance infrastructure monitoring and real-time alerting; Knowledge of security and vulnerability scanning tools (e.g., OWASP, SonarQube), implementing secure coding practices including robust encryption and identity management; Knowledge of distributed streaming and message queue technologies such as Kafka and RabbitMQ to efficiently manage data flows and support scalable data processing architec...