Cloud Platform Architect / Principal Platform Engineer
Senior Cloud Platform Architect
Cloud Infrastructure | Kubernetes | Multi-Cloud | Infrastructure Modernisation
11 Months Fix-Term Contract with chances of conversion into permanent.
We're looking for a Senior Cloud Platform Architect to help drive the transformation of critical infrastructure services into a modern, cloud-native environment.
This role sits at the heart of a large-scale infrastructure modernisation programme, supporting the redesign, migration and operation of foundational platform services across public cloud environments.
You'll work on highly available, business-critical services while helping shape the future cloud operating model through automation, containerisation and infrastructure-as-code practices.
What You'll Be Doing
- Lead the architecture and modernisation of core infrastructure services within cloud-native environments
- Design and implement production-grade Kubernetes platforms across AWS, Azure and/or GCP
- Drive infrastructure automation using Terraform and modern IaC practices
- Design multi-cloud infrastructure patterns and service networking solutions
- Support migration initiatives from traditional virtualised environments towards cloud-native platforms
- Build and improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment strategies and operational tooling
- Partner with engineering teams to improve resilience, scalability and platform reliability
- Champion an "everything-as-code" approach across infrastructure and operations
What We're Looking For
Essential
- Strong experience architecting and operating Kubernetes platforms in production
- Deep understanding of public cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure and/or GCP)
- Experience with Terraform or similar Infrastructure-as-Code tooling
- Strong Linux systems engineering background
- Experience with Docker and container ecosystem technologies
- Understanding of cloud networking, service discovery and platform security
- Experience building automated deployment and operational workflows
- Development experience in Go, Python or similar languages
Nice To Have
- Crossplane experience
- Platform Engineering experience
- SRE or Reliability Engineering background
- Experience supporting critical shared services at scale
- Exposure to infrastructure modernisation or datacentre transformation programmes
Background
- 7+ years within Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, SRE or Cloud Architecture roles
- Proven experience delivering enterprise-scale cloud transformations
- Experience leading architectural decisions and migration programmes
Why This Role?
You'll work on some of the most critical infrastructure services within the organisation, helping shape the next generation cloud platform while influencing architecture strategy across multiple technology domains.
GCS is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
Cloud Platform Architect / Principal Platform Engineer
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