Cloud Modernization Architect - Permanent

Context

A leading Belgian postal and logistics group delivers mail, parcels, and e-commerce solutions to millions of customers across Belgium and beyond. As the company continues to modernize its technology landscape and cloud footprint, it seeks talented professionals driven by operational excellence, security, and innovation to help build a faster, smarter, and more resilient logistics network for the future.

Missions

• Lead the assessment, design, and execution of modernization initiatives across the cloud estate, including modernization or migration of workloads currently hosted on Azure VMware Solution (AVS) towards secure, cost-efficient, portable architecture.
• Participate in and lead cloud/hyperscaler landscape discovery and modernization analysis across all cloud/hyperscaler estates.
• Define portable modernization roadmap, drive re-platforming and re-architecting decisions.
• Act as the primary technical authority for migration and modernization initiatives, collaborating closely with CloudOps, SecOps, and Application teams.
• Reduce technical debt, ensure proper tagging between applications and resources, and reduce VMware dependency.
• Improve resiliency and unlock cost and agility benefits.

Tools & Environment

• Assess workloads running on AWS, Azure, and Azure VMware Solution (AVS), including existing Golden AMI–based workloads.
• Use standard migration strategies: rehost, replatform, refactor, retire, retain.
• Lead migration of AVS-hosted VMware workloads off virtualized infrastructure onto portable, cost-optimized solutions toward hyperscalers or on-premises infrastructure.
• Re-architect legacy/monolithic workloads toward portable patterns such as containers, serverless, and managed services.
• Own and evolve AWS/Azure architecture standards and reference designs, including Golden AMI practices toward immutable infrastructure and container-based deployments.
• Drive cloud cost optimization: rightsizing, reserved/savings plans, eliminating legacy over-provisioning.
• Partner with Security team to embed security and compliance checks into CI/CD pipelines from design onward.
• Define Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform/IaC orchestrator) and CI/CD pipeline standards for automated modernization at scale.
• Conduct Well-Architected Framework reviews and translate findings into prioritized modernization backlog.
• Provide architectural guidance across Cloud, WAF, PKI, and related security/infrastructure initiatives.
• Identify and champion automation/self-service opportunities to reduce manual toil.

Working Conditions

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