Senior Cloud Architect

🕒 June 4

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water IT Security & Defense

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51 - 200 employees

🔒 Cybersecurity

🤝 B2B

Cybersecurity • B2B

water IT Security & Defense is an award-winning German cybersecurity firm based in Düsseldorf that provides managed IT security services and expert consulting to businesses. The company specializes in Managed Detection & Response (SOC), threat and data protection, resilience and emergency environment planning (ARC), managed risk and exposure control (TRACE), and SOC assessments. It partners closely with Microsoft for MXDR solutions and offers 24/7 monitoring, AI-powered analysis, and tailored, customer-centric security strategies for enterprise clients.

📋 Description

• You analyze complex client infrastructures and translate their requirements, constraints and operating models into cloud-based disaster recovery concepts • You go on-site to review client processes and the underlying IT resources and dependencies • You design the appropriate recovery architecture—whether active/standby, traditional DR, or a complete greenfield rebuild—and implement it technically • You validate, test, and keep the environment operational • You write the recovery/runbook together with our Business Continuity Management (BCM) team • You actively support presales: explain and position technical solutions convincingly and represent them to clients together with sales • You identify early where client environments require special handling and develop pragmatic solutions instead of idealized architectures • You share your knowledge within the team, help colleagues onboard in complex client situations, and contribute to the continuous improvement of our technical delivery standards

🎯 Requirements

• Solid hands-on experience with the Microsoft stack (Entra ID, Intune, M365, Azure) in design and implementation • Deep understanding of hybrid infrastructures: Active Directory, network topology, connectivity via Azure VPN, ExpressRoute or Entra Connect, and the ability to determine which workloads are replicable in a DR environment, can fail over to the cloud, or must be rebuilt • Experience with STACKIT or Google Workspace / Google Cloud Platform is a plus • Solid security knowledge in an infrastructure context: network segmentation, identity and access management, secure configuration of cloud resources, data protection in DR operations, and Zero Trust principles • Experience across the full DR lifecycle: design, technical implementation, validation, testing and ongoing maintenance of disaster recovery environments

🏖️ Benefits

• Trust-based vacation – you decide, beyond statutory minimum leave, how much time off you need • Work & Sleep in our modern office apartments in Düsseldorf and Vienna • 100% remote – work up to 182 days per year from another EU country • Mental health program "OpenUp Family" – for you and up to 3 additional loved ones • €50 monthly internet allowance • €20 monthly food delivery credit (Lieferando) • water shop with cool merch • Corporate benefits for fashion, travel, tech and more • Company health insurance including dental coverage and cancer screening scan • Company pension plan with a 25% employer contribution (increasing after 3 and 5 years) • JobRad (company bike lease) • Edenred cash card with €44 per month tax-free fringe benefit, or corporate fitness via EGYM Wellpass