Senior Cloud Architect

Senior Cloud Architect

Location: Ireland, Dublin (Remote/ Hybrid) OR United Kingdom (Remote/ Hybrid) OR Lithuania (Vilnius or Kaunas - Hybrid)

The Senior Cloud Architect will be responsible for designing and governing the architectural standards that enable Bentley’s cloud services to operate efficiently, securely, and at scale. This role sits at the intersection of architecture, reliability engineering, and developer enablement — ensuring that all new features and product initiatives are designed with reliability, observability, and operational efficiency from the start.

You will work closely with development teams to shift infrastructure and SRE concerns left — embedding best practices for scalability, cost optimization, and resilience early in the design lifecycle.

Responsibilities:

Architecture & Design Enablement

• Serve as the technical authority for cloud infrastructure architecture, ensuring designs align with enterprise standards, SLOs, and compliance frameworks (SOC2, FedRAMP, etc.).

• Participate in feature design reviews to validate architectural patterns, identify operational risks, and recommend optimised deployment strategies.

• Develop and promote reference architectures, design patterns, and reusable modules for common workloads (such as data services, compute pipelines, and distributed microservices).

• Lead architecture reviews and design gates, providing feedback and recommendations to engineering and product teams.

Operational Excellence & Reliability

• Define and enforce patterns that ensure reliability, observability, and performance are embedded into new services from the outset.

• Collaborate with SRE teams to codify best practices for availability, scalability, cost optimisation, and security.

• Work with infrastructure engineers to implement automated validation and compliance checks, including Infrastructure as Code policy enforcement, drift detection, and cost anomaly monitoring.

Collaboration & Influence

• Act as a bridge between SRE and Development, ensuring feature teams understand and apply infrastructure design principles.

• Mentor engineers across product and SRE teams in cloud design, Infrastructure as Code, and reliability-first thinking.

• Work cross-functionally with Product Managers, Security, and Compliance to ensure all solutions align with regulatory and business objectives.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

• 10+ years of combined experience in software engineering, SRE, or cloud infrastructure design.

• Advanced proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi, Bicep) and Kubernetes-based workloads.

• Hands-on expertise with at least one major cloud provider (Azure preferred; AWS or GCP acceptable).

• Experience building or reviewing distributed systems architectures focused on reliability, scalability, and maintainability.

• Strong scripting and programming skills, ideally with Go and C#

• Deep understanding of networking, container orchestration, monitoring, and cost management in cloud environments.

Preferred

• Experience designing for multi-cloud or hybrid environments.

• Familiarity with service mesh architectures (Istio, Linkerd) and observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Tempo).

• Exposure to security and compliance frameworks (SOC2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP).

• Proven ability to influence and mentor across organizational boundaries.

Lithuania location: Salary package starting from 5,666 EUR gross (before taxes-Lithuania) based on knowledge and experience. 

What We Offer:

• A great Team and culture – please see our colleague video .

• An exciting career as an integral part of a world-leading software company providing solutions for architecture, engineering, and construction - watch this short documentary about how we got our start.

• An attractive salary and benefits package.

• A commitment to inclusion, belonging and colleague wellbeing through global initiatives and resource groups.

• A company committed to making a real difference by advancing the world’s infrastructure for better quality of life, where your contributions help build a more sustainable, connected, and resilient world. Discover our latest user success stories for an insight into our global impact.

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About Bentley Systems

Around the world, infrastructure professionals rely on software from Bentley Systems to help them design, build, and operate better and more resilient infrastructure for transportation, water, energy, cities, and more. Founded in 1984 by engineers for engineers, Bentley is the partner of choice for engineering firms and owner-operators worldwide, with software that spans engineering disciplines, industry sectors, and all phases of the infrastructure lifecycle. Through our digital twin solutions, we help infrastructure professionals unlock the value of their data to transform project delivery and asset performance.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

Bentley is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and considers for employment all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, gender/gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, marital status, religion/belief, national origin, caste, age, or any other characteristic protected by local law or unrelated to job qualifications.