Cloud Architect

Job Title: Cloud ArchitectJob Type: ContractJob Location: REMOTE - 6 month contractContract Rate: Euro's 500 per day

• 5+ years of experience in Cloud Architecture, distributed systems engineering, or messaging platform design and operations• Strong hands-on experience with Apache Kafka (architecture, operations, tuning, troubleshooting) - understanding of brokers, partitions, replication, consumer groups, and Kafka Connect• Knowledge of Apache Pulsar (architecture concepts: brokers, BookKeeper, topics, tenants, namespaces, geo-replication) or demonstrated ability to ramp up quickly on comparable distributed systems• Experience designing multi-cloud and hybrid architectures - integrating services across public cloud (AWS), sovereign cloud, and on-premises infrastructure• Proficiency in containerised deployments - Kubernetes/OpenShift, Helm charts, container lifecycle management• Proficiency in scripting and automation - Python, Bash, and infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Ansible)• Experience with monitoring and observability tools - Dynatrace, Grafana, Splunk, or OpenSearch• Experience with CI/CD and GitOps - GitLab CI, ArgoCD, or similar; understanding of GitOps principles for infrastructure configuration• Understanding of messaging protocols - JMS 2.0, Kafka protocol, AMQP - and experience with protocol bridging or migration• Knowledge of Apache Pulsar protocol handlers - Starlight for Kafka (DataStax), StreamNative KSN, Pulsar JMS - or willingness to evaluate them hands-on• Knowledge of event-driven architectures and stream processing (Kafka Streams, Flink, Spark Streaming)