ICT Infrastructure Architect (Advanced)

Cronos Europa is looking for an experienced ICT Infrastructure Architect to support a major European Agency in the design, evolution, and governance of enterprise ICT infrastructure solutions. The successful candidate will contribute to strategic architecture initiatives, technology roadmaps, infrastructure standards, and the delivery of complex ICT projects in a hybrid on-premises and cloud environment.

Your Responsibilities

• Design and communicate enterprise ICT infrastructure architectures.
• Translate business, user, and technical requirements into architecture solutions.
• Define and maintain technology standards, guidelines, roadmaps, and architectural blueprints.
• Analyse existing ICT systems and identify opportunities for optimisation and transformation.
• Lead architecture activities across infrastructure, cloud, security, networking, storage, and platform domains.
• Produce architecture documentation, high-level designs (HLDs), low-level designs (LLDs), and technical specifications.
• Support ICT projects throughout the full lifecycle, from inception to implementation.
• Conduct architecture reviews, solution assessments, proofs of concept, and technology evaluations.
• Collaborate closely with project teams, operations, security teams, enterprise architects, and business stakeholders.
• Contribute to enterprise architecture repositories and governance activities.
• Support interoperability, integration, performance, capacity planning, and security architecture initiatives.
• Facilitate technical workshops and present architecture decisions to stakeholders.

Required Qualifications

• Master's degree or equivalent higher education qualification (EQF Level 7).
• Minimum 8 years of relevant IT professional experience.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in a similar Infrastructure Architect role.
• Professional proficiency in English (minimum B2 level).
• Eligibility to obtain EU security clearance.

Required Technical Expertise

• Enterprise infrastructure architecture.
• Hybrid cloud and on-premises environments.
• Kubernetes and container platforms.
• Windows and Linux infrastructures.
• Identity Management and Active Directory.
• System integration and cloud migration strategies.
• Virtualisation and modern infrastructure platforms.
• UML modelling and architecture documentation.
• DevSecOps methodologies.
• Enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF, Zachman, or similar.
• Architecture modelling tools such as Sparx Enterprise Architect, ARIS, or equivalent.

Nice to Have

• Experience with Archimate modelling.
• Experience applying architecture styles and design patterns.
• Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO).
• Red Hat OpenShift on-premises platforms.
• Azure Landing Zones.
• Azure DevOps.
• Public sector, EU institution, or international organisation experience.

Offer

• Long-term international project with a leading European institution.
• Complex enterprise-scale infrastructure landscape.
• Collaboration with multidisciplinary architecture, security, operations, and project teams.
• Opportunity to influence strategic technology decisions and ICT transformation initiatives.