Cloud Architect

My client has a need for an experienced Cloud Architect to join their team. This is a great chance to join a fantastic business who have some really exciting projects in the pipeline!

Key Tasks

• Architect and Design Cloud Solutions: Design and implement end-to-end cloud solutions on AWS (though could be multi-cloud) that align with business and technical requirements, ensuring scalability, security, and cost-efficiency.
• Cloud Strategy and Governance: Lead the development of cloud strategies, architecture frameworks, and best practices, ensuring alignment with industry standards and company policies.
• Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Environments: Design solutions that integrate with on-premises data centres and multi-cloud environments, ensuring seamless interaction between systems.
• Cloud Migration: Lead and execute cloud migration projects, including the assessment, planning, and execution of migrating applications and data to AWS.
• Solution Development: Collaborate with development teams and solutions architect peers to define the technical architecture for new applications, ensuring that cloud services, microservices, and APIs are optimised for performance and maintainability.
• Security and Compliance: Ensure that solutions comply with security standards (eg, IAM, encryption, Firewalls) and industry regulations (eg, SOC2, ISO/IEC27001 etc.), implementing security controls across cloud platforms.
• Cost Optimisation: Analyse and optimise cloud costs, ensuring resources are efficiently allocated and maintained while meeting performance requirements.
• Collaboration: Act as a technical liaison between business stakeholders, developers, infrastructure teams, and third-party vendors to translate business needs into technical solutions.
• Knowledge Sharing: Provide technical guidance, developer and DevOps training and support to others, in addition to your implementation responsibilities

Experience:

• 5+ years' experience as a solutions or cloud architect
• Certified architect in one or more of AWS, GCP, Azure
• Demonstrable experience of cloud-native adoption and large-scale cloud migrations
• Experience with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines

Technical Skills

• Strong understanding of cloud-native application architectures, microservices, and serverless frameworks
• Proficient in AWS services, eg, AWS Lambda, AWS ECS, IAM, MSK, containerization and container orchestration
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code tools, eg, Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK
• Deep knowledge of networking, security, databases, storage, and caching solutions in cloud environments
• Experience with automation, monitoring, observability, and deployment pipelines using tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI, BitBucket, Ansible, and Docker
• Experience in building high-volume data processing environments
• Experience in designing and implementing configuration management (eg Ansible)
• Familiarity with DevSecOps best practices and patterns, such as threat modelling, vulnerability management, container security, security scans, and continuous monitoring