Cloud Architect

Job Title: Cloud Architect – Event Streaming (Apache Pulsar)Location: Remote Contract: 6 months | £500/day B2BEU Citizenship is Mandatory We are looking for a Cloud Architect to evaluate Apache Pulsar as a next-gen event streaming platform across CleverCloud (sovereign) and AWS (public cloud). You will deploy, benchmark, test protocol compatibility (Kafka/JMS), validate geo-replication, and deliver a final recommendation with ADRs. Key Responsibilities:- Design hybrid/multi-cloud architectures- Deploy Pulsar on CleverCloud and OpenShift/Kubernetes- Benchmark performance against existing Kafka- Test Kafka-on-Pulsar and JMS compatibility- Configure geo-replication across clouds + on-prem- Set up monitoring with Dynatrace, Grafana, Splunk, OpenSearch- Validate multi-tenancy- Produce ADRs, POC findings, and final recommendation- Collaborate with Kafka ops, architects, and app teams Skills Required:- 5+ years in Cloud Architecture or Distributed Systems- Deep Kafka expertise (brokers, partitions, replication, consumer groups, Kafka Connect)- Pulsar knowledge (brokers, BookKeeper, topics, tenants, namespaces, geo-replication) or fast ramp-up ability- Multi-cloud + hybrid experience (AWS + sovereign + on-prem)- Kubernetes/OpenShift + Helm- Python, Bash, Terraform, Ansible- Observability: Dynatrace, Grafana, Splunk, or OpenSearch- CI/CD + GitOps (GitLab CI, ArgoCD)- Messaging protocols: JMS 2.0, Kafka protocol, AMQP- Pulsar protocol handlers (Starlight for Kafka, StreamNative KSN, Pulsar JMS)- Event-driven architectures + stream processing (Kafka Streams, Flink, Spark)- Confluent Kafka or similar- Performance testing- Strong documentation + communication skills- Fluent English- International team player Nice to Have:- CleverCloud / sovereign cloud experience- Redis- Kafka, Kubernetes, or cloud certifications- ITIL- Other European languages Start: ASAP To apply, send your CV.