Lead Platform Cloud ArchitectSheffield or Birmingham (Hybrid) | Contract Inside IR35Are you an experienced Cloud Architect looking to... Read more
Sheffield or Birmingham (Hybrid) | Contract Inside IR35
Are you an experienced Cloud Architect looking to shape enterprise-scale cloud platforms and drive modernisation across a complex global environment?
We are seeking a Lead Platform Cloud Architect to play a key role in designing, evolving, and governing cloud solutions that enable business transformation and innovation. This is an opportunity to work on large-scale cloud initiatives, influence technology strategy, and collaborate with senior stakeholders across business and technology functions.
The RoleAs a Lead Platform Cloud Architect, you will be responsible for defining and delivering cloud architecture solutions, ensuring alignment with business objectives, security standards, and operational requirements. You will lead cloud adoption initiatives, establish best practices, and provide technical leadership across platform engineering and architecture communities.
Key ResponsibilitiesDesign and develop enterprise-scale cloud architectures and platform solutions.Create cloud modernisation roadmaps aligned with business and technology strategies.Lead the design of infrastructure solutions covering compute, networking, storage, security, identity, and container platforms.Provide architectural governance and ensure compliance with technology standards and policies.Engage with senior stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into scalable technical solutions.Develop and promote reusable architecture patterns and best practices.Support cloud adoption, innovation, and continuous improvement initiatives.Collaborate with engineering, operations, security, and delivery teams to ensure successful implementation of solutions.Produce high-quality architecture documentation, decision records, and technical roadmaps.Contribute to incident resolution and provide expert guidance for complex technical challenges.Skills & Experience RequiredProven experience in Cloud Architecture, Platform Architecture, or Enterprise Architecture roles.Strong expertise in Microsoft Azure and cloud-native technologies.Experience delivering large-scale infrastructure or cloud transformation programmes.Solid understanding of:Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred)CI/CD and DevOps practicesIdentity & Access Management (IAM) and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)Networking, Security, Compute, and Storage technologiesContainer platforms and modern cloud operating modelsStrong stakeholder management and communication skills.Experience working within complex, enterprise-scale environments.Knowledge of security, risk, compliance, and governance frameworks.Ability to influence technical direction and guide cross-functional teams.Desirable ExperienceAzure AI ServicesPower PlatformDatabricksCloud or Architecture certifications (e.g., Azure Architect, TOGAF)Experience within regulated industries such as Financial Services, Insurance, Utilities, or GovernmentWhat We're Looking ForYou are a strategic thinker with a hands-on technical background who can bridge the gap between business objectives and technology solutions. You thrive in collaborative environments, enjoy solving complex challenges, and are passionate about driving cloud innovation at scale.
If you're ready to lead cloud transformation initiatives and make a significant impact within a forward-thinking technology organisation, we'd love to hear from you.
GCS is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
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We are currently seeking a Principal Cloud Security Architect.Key responsibilities:-Support project teams in designing secure architectures for environments... Read more
We are currently seeking a Principal Cloud Security Architect.
Key responsibilities:
-Support project teams in designing secure architectures for environments and infrastructure
Identify and gather project-specific requirements, and embed them into Azure environments and security control design
-Collaborate across within organization to identify, deliver, and document the required artifacts to enable movement of applications and data to the cloud, including strategy, target state, technical roadmaps, position statements, concepts, and logical specifications
-Provide a detailed understanding of cloud security and cloud infrastructure services, threat landscape and attack scenario's, risks
-Be hands-on, directly interacting with the engineering and application development teams, providing leadership to drive security requirements, influence decision makers, build relationships, and communicate strategy and architecture to the broader internal community. You must be able to influence and work collaboratively to guide the developers, engineers and architects towards the desired target state
-Possess significant breadth across other disciplines (e.g., enterprise security architecture, compute services, storage, large-scale networking, virtualization, data center, integration architecture (API), orchestration technologies (Kubernetes, Docker, open stack), systems resiliency, service support, Secure application development lifecycle management (DevSecOps), and service delivery)
-Lead through influence, communicate effectively through clarity of thought and demonstrated understanding of business and technical requirements
-Be a strong technologist with pragmatic view and creative mind, and a natural collaborator with line of business security architects, engineers, developers, application owners, service providers, and senior management
To be successful in this role you should meet the following requirements:
-Must have experience of Cloud security architecture on Azure Deep knowledge of broader Microsoft technology portfolio and solutions
-Cloud security architecture experience on AWS and GCP (preferred)
-Demonstratable experience increasing responsibility architecting, positioning and delivering cloud/internet facing applications
-Ability to provide direction and guidance on architectural use cases and requirements
-Ability to produce hardened configuration standards for cloud services
-Threat modeling experience;
-Preferred experience with one or more general purpose programming languages including but not limited to: PowerShell scripting, Java, C/C++, Python, JavaScript and understanding of software vulnerabilities
-Hands on experience with ARM templates and Terraform
-Excellent command of Cybersecurity organization practices, operations risk management processes, principles, architectural requirements, engineering threats and vulnerabilities, including incident response methodologies
-Keen understanding of national and international laws, regulations, policies and ethics related to financial industry cybersecurity
-Noted cybersecurity expert, keeping technical skills current and participating in multiple forums;
GCS is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
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