Cloud Platform Architect

Salary: £41,500 - 69,500 per year

Requirements

• Expert-level infrastructure-as-code proficiency: Terraform (strongly preferred), CloudFormation, Pulumi, or Bicep
• Deep experience with at least two major cloud platforms: AWS, Azure, GCP, or VMware private cloud
• Strong experience with Kubernetes (EKS/AKS/GKE), container orchestration, and platform services
• Configuration management expertise: Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or SaltStack
• CI/CD tooling experience: Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or Azure DevOps for infrastructure pipelines
• Policy-as-code frameworks experience: OPA/Rego, HashiCorp Sentinel, Azure Policy, or AWS Config Rules
• Monitoring and observability experience: Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, CloudWatch, or Dynatrace
• Networking fundamentals: VPC/VNet design, load balancers, DNS, CDN, and hybrid connectivity
• Strong leadership and mentoring ability
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills across all levels
• Strategic thinking with the ability to balance technical depth and business outcomes
• Proven ability to drive change, influence without authority, and build consensus
• Strong analytical and problem-solving mindset with attention to detail
• Ability to manage competing priorities across multiple workstreams simultaneously
• 7+ years in cloud/infrastructure engineering with 3+ years in a senior or lead capacity
• Proven track record of delivering large-scale IaC transformation and cloud migration programmes
• Relevant certifications: AWS Solutions Architect Professional, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, CKA/CKAD, or Terraform Associate/Professional
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience

Responsibilities

• Architect and implement IaC-based cloud provisioning using Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi across multi-cloud and private cloud environments
• Design and automate end-to-end infrastructure lifecycle management: provisioning, patching, updates, scaling, and decommissioning
• Build and maintain cloud governance guardrails using policy-as-code to enforce security, cost, and compliance standards
• Implement FinOps practices including automated rightsizing, reserved instance management, waste detection, and cost allocation tagging
• Lead CI/CD pipeline engineering for infrastructure deployments, integrating automated testing, security scanning, and approval gates
• Design self-service infrastructure portals enabling development teams to provision compliant environments without manual intervention
• Mentor and coach 2 Cloud Platform Engineers, establish coding standards, conduct architecture reviews, and drive knowledge sharing
• Collaborate SRE and Security teams to embed reliability, observability, and compliance into the platform from the ground up
• Produce architectural decision records, runbooks, and platform documentation for operational excellence

Technologies

• AWS
• Ansible
• Architect
• Azure
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• CloudWatch
• Datadog
• DevOps
• Dynatrace
• GCP
• GitHub
• GitLab
• Grafana
• Support
• Jenkins
• Kubernetes
• Prometheus
• Pulumi
• Puppet
• Security
• Terraform
• VMware
• ASP.NET
• ArgoCD
• GitOps
• Istio
• Network

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We are Hitachi Digital Services, a global digital solutions and transformation business with a people-centric mission to power good and future-proof urban spaces, conserve natural resources, protect rainforests, and save lives. We are looking for a Cloud & Data Engineering professional to lead the design, build, and operational excellence of our cloud platform across private and public cloud environments in London, United Kingdom. We offer industry-leading benefits, support, and services focused on holistic health and wellbeing, flexible arrangements where role and location allow, and a culture of belonging, autonomy, freedom, and ownership. We are committed to an inclusive, merit-based environment and welcome applicants from all backgrounds.