Azure Cloud Architect - Hybrid, Security-Driven Leader

Thales Group; Crawley; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance bonus

Car allowance

Private healthcare

Pension

Life cover

Wellbeing app

Volunteer time

Gym discounts

Job summary

Thales Group UK is recruiting an Azure Cloud Architect to lead cloud strategy, architecture, and secure delivery for complex digital solutions. You will act as an industry expert across cloud, security and DevSecOps, guiding platform teams and stakeholders in design patterns, governance and architectural roadmaps.

The role requires strong cloud engineering expertise, proficiency in IaC, security frameworks, and collaboration with cross-functional teams while operating in a hybrid work model in

Qualifications

• Expert in cloud, infrastructure and network technologies with focus on Azure.
• Lead platform architecture across storage, compute, network, containerisation and cloud-native apps.
• Knowledge of Secure by Design principles and DevSecOps practices.

Responsibilities

• Act as industry expert in cloud and security to guide the platform team.
• Design and architect next-gen architectures across multiple domains.
• Collaborate with architects to develop and deploy solution architectures.
• Lead the creation and maintenance of reference architectures and roadmaps.
• Support security governance and risk assessment activities within projects.

Skills

Azure cloud architecture

Security and risk assessment

DevSecOps / Secure by design

Infrastructure as Code

Security frameworks knowledge

Communication skills

Tools

Azure Stack

Terraform

ARM templates

Azure DevOps

Job description

Thales Group UK is recruiting an Azure Cloud Architect to lead cloud strategy, architecture, and secure delivery for complex digital solutions. You will act as an industry expert across cloud, security and DevSecOps, guiding platform teams and stakeholders in design patterns, governance and architectural roadmaps.

The role requires strong cloud engineering expertise, proficiency in IaC, security frameworks, and collaboration with cross-functional teams while operating in a hybrid work model in