Your role

As a Cloud Architect, you’ll help our customers design and build scalable, secure and sustainable cloud solutions. In this role, you’ll combine hands-on technical expertise with architectural thinking and consulting capabilities. You’ll work closely with project teams, developers, customers and sales to ensure our cloud solutions support long-term business goals and modern software development practices.

Your responsibilities include:

• Designing and consulting cloud architectures based on customer project needs

• Evaluating existing solutions from security, scalability and best practice perspectives

• Supporting our sales team in creating technical proposals and solution concepts

• Providing expertise in cloud governance and lifecycle management

• Supporting and mentoring developers, cell leads and customers in cloud-related challenges

• Participating hands-on in customer projects according to your own skillset and interests

• Helping teams improve cloud maturity, infrastructure quality and operational practices

• Supporting infrastructure management and cloud development environments

Our projects vary from industrial software systems to modern cloud-native services, giving you the opportunity to work with a broad range of technologies, architectures and customer environments.

What We’re Looking For

We’re looking for someone who can see the bigger picture in cloud solutions while also being comfortable supporting practical implementation work and guiding others.

Ideally, you bring:

• Proven experience in cloud architecture with Azure, AWS or both

• Strong understanding of cloud best practices, security and lifecycle management

• Experience managing cloud infrastructure using IaC technologies such as Terraform or AWS CDK

• Experience with virtual networks, security groups and DNS management

• Ability to evaluate existing cloud environments and recommend improvements

• Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple tasks and projects simultaneously

• Ability to collaborate effectively with project teams, customers and sales

• Good communication skills in English and Finnish

• Awareness of how AI is changing software and cloud development and readiness to utilize AI tools in your own work

The following are considered beneficial:

• Networking and on-premises architecture experience

• Project management experience

• Cloud service administration experience

• Mentoring and knowledge sharing capabilities

• Architecture or software development background

• Domain knowledge in manufacturing, energy or mobile machinery industries

This role is well suited for someone who has worked as a Cloud Engineer or similar and is ready to take the next step toward a broader architectural and advisory role.

Why Join Us

We believe in learning from each other, growing together, and creating something truly impactful.
We combine deep technical expertise with a human-centric culture that values curiosity, collaboration and long-term impact.

Here’s why our cloud professionals enjoy working here:

• Meaningful projects: You’ll work with industrial customers and business-critical systems where reliability and long-term maintainability truly matter.

• Variety and ownership: Our projects vary greatly, and you’ll have opportunities to influence the technologies, customers and project types you work with.

• Strategic impact: In addition to hands-on work, you’ll help shape cloud practices, architectures and customer roadmaps.

• Growth built-in: You’ll work alongside highly experienced professionals while continuously developing your own expertise.

• Flexible by design: Work from home, our Tampere or Espoo offices, or customer sites depending on the project.

• Relaxed and respectful culture: We value trust, autonomy and practical collaboration without unnecessary hierarchy.

• Agile mindset: We focus on long-term partnerships, practical solutions and continuous improvement.

• No micromanagement: You’ll have ownership of your work and freedom to make decisions that matter.

As we hope you already have solid experience in cloud technologies and architecture, the salary range in this position is approximately 5000–6500 euros/month depending on your experience and background.

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We at Insta

People, expertise and responsibility are at the core of our culture. As a Finnish family-owned company with over 65 years of history, our roots are firmly planted in Tampere. From there, we’ve grown into a community of nearly 1,300 professionals with an increasingly international presence.

We combine deep expertise with modern technology to build solutions that strengthen critical security and ensure the smooth functioning of society. When nothing unexpected happens in your everyday life, we—more than one thousand Insta team members—have succeeded in our work.

READY TO ROLL?

Submit your application or apply with your LinkedIn profile latest by the end of 31st of May. Our roles can always be tailored, so we would really like to know what kind of role would be perfect for you! We interview candidates continuously and fill positions as soon as we find the right people.

If you have any questions about this job, Atte Nopanen will be happy to tell you more on Tuesdays from 1 to 2 pm(+358 20 771 7853) and firstname.lastname(at)insta.fi.

In recruitment process related questions, Recruitment Johanna Välimäki is happy to help at reky(at)insta.fi and +358 20 771 7128.

Security clearance check by the Finnish Security Intelligence Service will be conducted for successful applicants. Read more about security clearances here.

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Insta creates and secures the digital future. We are a reliable partner for our industry, defense and cyber security customers. By combining state-of-the-art know-how with intelligent technology, we improve our customers’ safety and performance in a digitalizing world that is changing at an increasing pace. Our culture is founded on people, expertise and responsibility. In 2025, our family company's number of personnel was approximately 1,300.

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