Cloud Architect - Azure & Government Cloud

About the role

Thales, a global technology leader in aerospace, defence, security and digital identity, is hiring a Cloud Architect in Singapore. You will lead the design and adaptation of Digital Twin architecture in Azure Cloud and Singapore's Government Commercial Cloud, architect systems of systems deployments such as Air Traffic Management solutions, and define hybrid and multi-cloud strategies.

Key responsibilities

• Design and adapt Digital Twin architecture in Azure Cloud and the Government Commercial Cloud, and architect systems of systems deployments using Thales-flavoured Kubernetes orchestration.
• Define hybrid and multi-cloud interoperability, data movement, workload portability, binary compatibility, resilience, redundancy, disaster recovery and KPIs for resiliency and cloud costs.
• Ensure deployments comply with regulations (IM8, GDPR, Data Protection Acts, NIST) and define data classification, residency and sovereignty models.
• Integrate DevSecOps, zero-trust and compliance-as-code into pipelines, and implement audit, monitoring and logging aligned with CIS benchmarks.
• Standardise Kubernetes clusters across AKS, RKE2 and GCC, define golden paths for deployment and service mesh, and support GitOps (ArgoCD, Flux) and IaC (Terraform, Helmfile, Crossplane).
• Mentor teams in cloud-native patterns (12-factor apps, microservices, event-driven architectures) and act as a bridge between enterprise architecture, DevOps and security/compliance.
• Enforce cloud governance (policy, access controls, tagging, cost optimisation) and provide technical leadership in PI Planning, ART syncs and demos.

Required profile

• Bachelor's in Computer Science or Information Technology, or Master's in Computer Science or Data Science.
• 7+ years of cloud architecture experience with multi-cloud exposure (Azure required, GCC preferred).
• Proven expertise in Kubernetes architecture and operations in production, and in designing mission-critical, highly available systems of systems.
• Understanding of cloud compliance frameworks (GDPR, IM8, NIST 800-53, Cloud Act, Data Protection Acts).
• Learning agility, flexibility, pro-activity, and comfort with agile teamwork.

Required skills

• Azure and GCC, with familiarity with Identity Solutions, RBAC, policies, regions and availability zones.
• Kubernetes architecture and operations.
• IaC tools: Terraform, Helmfile, Ansible.
• Networking, identity management and security controls across Azure and GCC.
• Desirable: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305), CKA/CKAD, CISSP, CCSK; service meshes (Istio, Linkerd); DevSecOps, SRE or platform engineering background.