Salary: £100,000 - 100,000 per year
Requirements
- Proven experience as a Cloud Architect, Senior Cloud Engineer, or similar technical leadership role
- Strong hands on expertise with AWS and/or Microsoft Azure (GCP experience is beneficial)
- Demonstrable experience delivering large-scale enterprise cloud solutions
- Solid understanding of cloud security architecture and secure design principles
- Experience leading cloud migration, modernisation, or hybrid cloud initiatives
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to lead technical decision-making and mentor engineers
- UK National (eligible for MOD DV security clearance sponsorship available)
- Desirable: Experience with DevSecOps and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, ARM, CloudFormation)
- Knowledge of container platforms (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Experience working in regulated or government environments
- Relevant certifications (AWS Solutions Architect, Azure Architect, CCSP, CISSP, etc.)
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, implementation and optimisation of secure cloud architectures across AWS, Azure, and hybrid environments
- Own end to end cloud security architecture, controls, and best practices
- Work closely with customer technical and operational teams to understand requirements and translate them into robust cloud solutions
- Lead architectural discussions, technical workshops, and design authority sessions
- Deliver solutions across both greenfield and brownfield cloud transformation projects
- Define and guide cloud migration strategies and modernisation programmes
- Provide expert input on cloud resilience, scalability, performance and operational excellence
- Act as a trusted technical advisor to senior stakeholders and client leadership teams
Technologies
- ARM
- AWS
- Architect
- Azure
- Cloud
- DevSecOps
- Docker
- GCP
- Support
- Kubernetes
- Security
- Terraform