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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Skills Required
- Master's degree or equivalent higher education qualification at EQF Level 7
- At least 8 years of relevant IT professional experience
- At least 5 years of experience in a similar Infrastructure Architect role
- Professional proficiency in English at minimum B2 level
- Eligibility to obtain EU security clearance
- Experience with enterprise infrastructure architecture
- Experience with hybrid cloud and on-premises environments
- Experience with Kubernetes and container platforms
- Experience with Windows and Linux infrastructures
- Experience with identity management and Active Directory
- Experience with system integration and cloud migration strategies
- Experience with virtualization and modern infrastructure platforms
- Experience with UML modeling and architecture documentation
- Experience with DevSecOps methodologies
- Knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF or Zachman
- Experience with architecture modeling tools such as Sparx Enterprise Architect or ARIS
- Experience with ArchiMate modeling
- Experience applying architecture styles and design patterns
- Experience with Azure Red Hat OpenShift
- Experience with Red Hat OpenShift on-premises platforms
- Experience with Azure Landing Zones
- Experience with Azure DevOps
- Public sector, EU institution, or international organization experience
What We Do
Cronos Europa is an IT and digital communications company uniquely dedicated to serving the European institutions, agencies and bodies. From the European Union to EUROCONTROL, we partner with a range of supranational and interinstitutional authorities. Our mission is to arm them with the tools they need to thrive in the digital age. Every aspect of our organisation is designed to complement their capabilities - from our people to our processes and our premises. Our brand combines the expertise of former companies Cronos International and C-Dev, with the creative skills of Inspiiro and the breadth of capabilities of the Cronos Group. Today, Cronos Europa employs over 1,000 people in offices across Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, serving institutions across diverse framework contracts. Cronos Europa is part of the Cronos Group, one of the largest IT service providers in the Benelux, employing over 8,000 people across 200 competence centres. By leveraging the Group’s resources, Cronos Europa can help clients extract value from new and emerging technologies, for everything from Artificial intelligence to Zg Quantum. For spontaneous applications: https://cronoseuropa.breezy.hr/p/7a64ee973c6701-spontaneous-application?state=published
