Cloud & Infrastructure Architect

Key Responsibilities :

Architecture Design & Strategy :

- Define reference architectures, technical standards, and guardrails for cloud adoption.

- Lead architectural reviews, design workshops, and proof-of-concepts for new initiatives.

- Align infrastructure strategy with product roadmaps and business growth objectives.

Cloud Platform Engineering :

- Drive the adoption of cloud-native services including serverless, managed databases, and event-driven architectures.

- Define and govern networking architectures : VPCs, peering, DNS, CDN, load balancing, and zero-trust models.

- Oversee platform migration strategies including cloud lift-and-shift, re-platforming, and re-architecture programmes.

Infrastructure as Code & Automation :

- Embed automation across provisioning, configuration management, scaling, and self-healing infrastructure.

- Define GitOps workflows and integrate infrastructure pipelines within CI/CD processes.

Security & Compliance :

- Work with security teams to ensure compliance with relevant standards (ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR, or industry-specific).

- Conduct threat modelling and infrastructure risk assessments for new architectural patterns.

Cost Optimisation & Observability :

- Define observability standards including metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting using tools such as Datadog, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry.

- Establish SLOs/SLAs for infrastructure services and lead capacity planning reviews.

Technical Leadership :

- Produce architecture decision records (ADRs) and maintain living architecture documentation.

- Represent infrastructure and platform concerns in cross-functional engineering forums.

Required Qualifications :

- Deep expertise in at least one major cloud provider (AWS preferred; Azure or GCP considered).

- Strong proficiency in infrastructure-as-code tools Terraform is essential.

- Solid understanding of Kubernetes, container orchestration, and cloud-native application patterns.

- Strong knowledge of networking, security, and identity management in cloud environments.

- Experience architecting and delivering large-scale, production-grade distributed systems.

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills ability to present complex technical decisions clearly to engineering and executive audiences.

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