Cloud Platform Architect

Hitachi; Greater London; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Industry-leading benefits

Flexible work arrangements

Culture of belonging and ownership

Job summary

Hitachi Digital Services in London, United Kingdom, seeks a Cloud & Data Engineering professional to lead the design, build, and operational excellence of our cloud platform across private and public clouds.

The role demands deep IaC expertise, multi-cloud experience, strong leadership, and the ability to drive governance, FinOps, and security integration, with mentoring responsibilities for two Cloud Platform Engineers.

Qualifications

• Expert-level IaC proficiency across Terraform, 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) and platform services.
• Configuration management expertise: Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or SaltStack.
• CI/CD tooling experience: Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or Azure DevOps for infra pipelines.
• Policy-as-code frameworks: OPA/Rego, HashiCorp Sentinel, Azure Policy, or AWS Config Rules.
• Monitoring and observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, CloudWatch, or Dynatrace.
• Networking fundamentals: VPC/VNet design, load balancers, DNS, CDN, and hybrid connectivity.
• Leadership and mentoring ability; stakeholder management and communication across levels.
• Strategic thinking balancing technical depth and business outcomes; drive change and build consensus.

Responsibilities

• Architect and implement IaC-based cloud provisioning 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.

Skills

IaC expertise

Cloud platforms

Kubernetes

Configuration management

CI/CD tooling

Policy as code

Monitoring & observability

Networking fundamentals

Stakeholder management

Strategic thinking

Change influence

Analytical mindset

Prioritisation across streams

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Pulumi

Bicep

Kubernetes

Ansible

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Azure DevOps

Job description

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

More

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.