Cloud Platform Architect

Jobtailor; Bristol; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking an experienced Cloud Architect to mature our cloud architecture strategy and drive secure, scalable platforms in the UK market.

The role focuses on AWS design, governance, and collaboration with security, compliance and engineering teams to optimise cost and performance. You will mentor teams and lead cloud migration efforts in regulated financial services contexts.

Qualifications

• Experience designing scalable, secure cloud systems on AWS.
• Experience with regulatory requirements in UK financial context.
• Knowledge of containerisation, orchestration and serverless architectures.

Responsibilities

• Mature the cloud architecture strategy and define standards for deployment and management.
• Develop and maintain reference architecture assets aligned with HL vision for cloud platforms.
• Lead the AWS design of secure, scalable cloud platforms with resilience and cost efficiency.
• Collaborate with security, compliance and engineering teams to ensure seamless cloud integration.
• Develop and mature governance for AWS including cost optimisation and compliance.
• Manage architectural issues, risks and escalations within governance structures.
• Advise on cloud topics, migration strategies and cloud solutions.
• Support operations to optimise cloud resources via monitoring and automation.
• Ensure compliance with ISO 27001, PCI DSS and UK regulations.
• Mentor teams on cloud discipline, DevOps and IaC approaches.
• Evaluate and recommend cloud services and technologies.

Skills

Cloud design

Security & compliance

Stakeholder comms

Regulated industry

Hybrid cloud

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Jenkins

Jira

Kubernetes

Job description

Responsibilities

• Mature the cloud architecture strategy, defining architectural standards and best practices for deployment and management.
• Develop and maintain reference architecture assets e.g. roadmaps, blueprints and patterns that are aligned with the HL vision and strategy for cloud platforms.
• Lead the AWS design of secure and scalable cloud platforms, ensuring resilience and cost efficiency.
• Collaborate with security, compliance, and engineering teams to ensure seamless cloud integration with existing and future platforms.
• Develop and mature robust technical governance for AWS including cost optimisation and compliance.
• Manage any architectural issues (e.g. technical debt), risks and escalations, documenting and raising via the appropriate governance structures.
• Advise on cloud platform topics, migration strategies, and cloud solutions (cloud native and hybrid).
• Support operational and engineering colleagues through identifying opportunities to optimise cloud resources, performance and cost through continuous monitoring and automation.
• Ensure compliance with relevant frameworks, including ISO 27001, PCI DSS, and UK financial regulations.
• Support cloud capabilities internally through the mentoring of new colleagues and technical teams such as Operations and Engineering, on strong architectural discipline, cloud best practices, DevOps, and infrastructure-as-code approaches.
• Evaluate and recommend cloud services, tools and technologies.

Qualifications

• Strong cloud experience designing scalable, secure and highly available systems on AWS.
• Deep expertise in cloud networking, security, database and storage solutions.
• Knowledge of containerisation, orchestration (Kubernetes), and serverless architectures.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (IAC) using tools like Terraform or Cloud Formation, CI/CD pipelines, Jira and Jenkins.
• Awareness and use of architectural frameworks.
• Strong problem-solving abilities and stakeholder communication skills.
• Experience working in a regulated industry.
• Desirable Cloud certification (e.g. AWS Solutions Architect) and strong experience in hybrid environments.
• Knowledge of financial services sector and regulatory framework in UK.
• Experience in cloud migration (design and implementation support) with deep understanding of techniques and best practice.
• Familiarity and use of common Enterprise Architecture (EA) tooling.