Cloud Architect

Penta Consulting are a technology service provider and leading outsourced partner helping to deliver professional and managed solutions across EMEA.

We are supporting a well esteemed client of ours searching for a 'Cloud Solution Architect' in Sweden for a 12 month extendable contract.

In this role, you will work with Premier Enterprise Customers in delivering proactive services across advanced technical areas.

Job Description:

• Engineer and maintain production-grade PowerShell automation (functions, modules, packaging, versioning, release management) with an emphasis on reliability, maintainability, and re-use.
• Design, author, and troubleshoot DSC resources and configurations (idempotent behavior; correct Get/Test/Set; LCM troubleshooting; drift detection and remediation).
• Build and operate CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure automation using Azure DevOps and/or GitHub (PR workflows, gated builds, artifact publishing, environment promotion).
• Troubleshoot complex PowerShell/DSC issues end-to-end (VS Code debugging, logging/telemetry, remoting, authentication, runspaces, and execution policy constraints).

Key requirements:

• Strong software-engineering background in infrastructure automation using PowerShell (advanced functions, modules, classes, error handling, performance, and maintainability). Experience with C# for infrastructure tooling is highly valuable.
• Deep Git \+ platform skills: proven hands-on experience with GitHub and/or Azure DevOps (branching strategies, PR reviews, merge conflict resolution, repo hygiene, releases).
• DSC engineering experience: authoring and operating DSC resources/configurations with correct idempotent behaviour; troubleshooting LCM execution and configuration drift; experience with at least one of: class-based DSC resources, script-based resources, or DSC v3/DSC CLI concepts.
• Code quality: Pester testing strategy (unit/integration), PSScriptAnalyzer (or equivalent), and comfort working with code reviews and CI quality gates.
• Microsoft365DSC (preferred) or demonstrable ability to ramp up quickly with prior DSC module/resource development.

If you are interested in taking on this challenging role, please apply!

Successful candidates will be contacted within 2 weeks of applying.