Lead Infrastructure Architect

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From its beginnings as a wool mill, La Redoute is a French brand that has forged unique relationships with its customers for the past 180 years – yesterday through its catalogue, today on the web. We are a mainly digital player, selling fashion as well as home decoration.

Associated with the Galeries Lafayette group and present in Portugal, in Leiria, La Redoute is looking for a
Lead Infrastructure Architect.

As part of our ongoing transformation, we've nearly completed our migration to Azure and are entering a phase of optimization and innovation. We're looking for a Lead Infrastructure Architect to drive this next chapter from our Portugal office, managing a skilled team and shaping the future of our infrastructure.

Your future job

As Lead Infrastructure Architect, you will:

• Lead and grow a team of international infrastructure architects (France/Portugal).
• Design and evolve infrastructure solutions aligned with business needs.
• Drive innovation across cloud platforms, infrastructure services, and architecture practices.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Ops, DevOps, developers and security.
• Own and improve infrastructure services and documentation.

Leadership & Team Management

• Mentor and develop your team members.
• Support hiring, onboarding, and career growth.
• Foster a collaborative and high-performance culture.
• Actively contribute to strategic discussions with the COO, CTO, CISO, CDO

Architecture & Delivery

• Translate business needs into scalable infrastructure solutions.
• Produce High-Level and Low-Level Designs.
• Structure functional and non-functional requirements.
• Identify possible scenarios regarding the as-is and to-be.
• Propose solutions and recommendations of the trajectory.
• Ensure operational excellence, performance, and cost-efficiency.
• Support the operations team in analyzing and resolving incidents, with a strong emphasis on proactive prevention.

Service Ownership & Documentation

• Define and maintain service roadmaps.
• Ensure up-to-date documentation and knowledge sharing.
• Introduce new services based on evolving needs.

Why join us?

• Be part of a strategic transformation.
• Lead a talented team with autonomy and impact.
• Work with advanced and impactful technologies including Cloudflare, AI, Kubernetes, Terraform, and scalable cloud solutions.
• Work in a collaborative, international environment.
• Grow your career in a company that values innovation and people.

What's expected from you:

Mandatory:

• Management experience
• Fluency in English
• Strong infrastructure architecture background.
• Public Cloud skills & experience
  (Azure mandatory)
• Broad IT technical knowledge.
• Team-oriented mindset.

Preferred:

• Degree in Computer Engineering or similar.
• Experience with:
• Devops tools, languages: Terraform, Ansible, GitLab, Vault.
• Cloud & PaaS Providers: Azure, GCP, Aiven, Atlas.
• Azure Services (Hub & Spoke model, AppGW, VMSS, Azure monitor, Azure backup, SQL DB managed instance, Event Hub, VM, Azure functions, …).
• Digital E-Commerce: High traffic management, security, scalability.
• Development platforms and programming languages.
• Agile methodologies.

Working Environment

• Hybrid work model
• Strong team spirit and knowledge-sharing culture.
• Occasional travel to France (Paris, Roubaix).
• Access to tech talks, blogs, and collaborative tools:

Good reasons to join us:

• Be part of a strategic transformation.
• Lead a talented team with autonomy and impact.
• Work with advanced and impactful technologies including Cloudflare, AI, Kubernetes, Terraform, and scalable cloud solutions.
• Work in a collaborative, international environment.
• Grow your career in a company that values innovation and people.