Cloud Analyst

Join a high-impact project in the banking sector to define a sovereign backup strategy across multi-region, multi-cloud, and on-premises environments. You will support IT management in designing a future-proof backup architecture, ensuring data sovereignty, resilience, and regulatory compliance.

Location: Brussels, Belgium (Hybrid)
Employment Type: Contract / Freelance
Industry: Banking / IT Infrastructure
Languages: English (required)
Compensation: Competitive daily rate based on experience

Key Responsibilities

Assist with documentation of current state assessment, gap analysis, and target state
Research sovereign cloud providers, multi-cloud capabilities, and sovereign backup vendors; compile comparison matrices
Support preparation of reference architectures and diagrams
Draft and format reports, roadmap documentation, and presentation slides
Track dependencies, decision points, risks, and maintain the shared knowledge base

Assessment Report – documenting current state, risks, and gap analysis
Target Architecture – including conceptual and logical architecture diagrams
Capability Model – recommendations per landing zone
Phased 5-Year Roadmap – milestones, dependencies, and indicative costs
Final Presentation – executive-level summary and recommendations

Clear, actionable strategy covering multi-region, multi-cloud, sovereign providers, on-premises fallback, and sovereign backup
Alignment with business, IT, and security priorities
Future-proof design balancing cloud, multi-cloud, and on-premises fallback
Sovereign backup across all data ensuring data sovereignty
Achievable 5-year roadmap including legacy system decommissioning
Decision support for IT management and architects to make investment and vendor choices

Hybrid Cloud Architecture
Data Sovereignty & Backup, Archiving, Disaster Recovery
Visio / Visual Paradigm for diagrams
Experience with creating reference architectures and roadmaps

Work on a strategic, high-visibility banking IT project
Collaborate with senior architects and IT leadership
Hybrid working model with flexibility
Competitive daily rate based on experience
Long-term engagement with extension potential

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