About the role

Design and own the cloud and infrastructure architecture across multi-cloud and hybrid environments.

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.

Architect scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant infrastructure on AWS, Azure, and/or GCP.

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.

Champion IaC practices using Terraform, Pulumi, or CDK and establish reusable module libraries.

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

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

Embed security-by-design principles across infrastructure: IAM, secrets management, data encryption, and network segmentation.

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.

Drive FinOps practices to manage and optimise cloud spend across engineering teams.

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.

Mentor senior engineers and platform teams on cloud architecture patterns and best practices.

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

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

6–10 years of experience in cloud architecture, infrastructure engineering, or platform engineering roles.
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.

Multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud architecture experience.
Familiarity with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd) or eBPF-based networking.
Experience with platform engineering and Internal Developer Platform (IDP) concepts.
Relevant certifications: