CYS - EDGEWING - Solution Architect (Technical Services)

14 days ago

Catania, ItalySenior

Responsibilities

Design and develop scalable, secure, highly available, reliable, performant, and cost-effective architectures for technical services and related infrastructure and applications.
Provide hands-on architectural guidance to engineering and operations teams throughout design, build, and deployment.
Manage containerized applications and deploy, operate, monitor, and optimize software applications against performance and business requirements.
Design and implement IAM, encryption, firewalls, threat detection, disaster recovery, failover, redundancy, and business-continuity capabilities.
Collaborate with Product Owners, Technical Leads, Cybersecurity, Enterprise Architects, delivery teams, and other stakeholders.
Evaluate emerging technologies, support cloud migration and DevOps adoption, and modernize legacy systems and their integrations.
Optimize infrastructure, licensing, cloud-usage, and other technical-service costs.
Create and maintain solution designs, technical standards, best-practice documentation, and knowledge-sharing materials.
Manage product lifecycles from initial concept through design, manufacturing, deployment, maintenance, and end-of-life.

At least 5 years of experience in solution architecture focused on technical services.
Experience designing and deploying technical services involving cloud infrastructure, network solutions, and IT systems.
Strong knowledge of cloud-native services, networking, IAM, cost optimization, servers, storage, virtualization, and security measures.
Experience with digital transformation initiatives such as cloud migrations or DevOps adoption.
Experience managing infrastructure, licensing, and cloud-usage costs.
Strong verbal and written communication skills and high ethical standards when handling confidential information.
Desirable qualifications include VMware Certified Professional, Kubernetes Administrator, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Docker Certified Associate, CISSP, TOGAF, or similar certifications.
Familiarity with Splunk, ELK Stack, or Nagios for monitoring and troubleshooting is desirable.
Experience in highly regulated industries and legacy-system modernization is desirable.
English proficiency at C1 level and Italian citizenship are required.

Permanent hybrid employment contract with Italy as the base location.
At least two-year secondment to Reading, UK, the GCAP Joint Venture headquarters.
Employment under the Italian National Collective Labour Agreement for the Private Metalworking Industry and Plant Installation Sector.
13th-month salary, performance bonus, and annual welfare benefits worth €250.
Ongoing technical and soft-skills training and professional development.
Well-being initiatives supporting employees' economic, physical, social, and psychological well-being.
Primary locations include Rome, Catania, Chieti Scalo, and Genoa.