Cloud Solutions Architect: Distributed Systems & Reliability

Crossing Hurdles; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Crossing Hurdles is seeking a Senior Cloud/Platform Engineer to design and operate scalable cloud infrastructures. You will own tasks around distributed systems, networking, security, and reliability, building reproducible containerized environments and reference solutions.

You will define measurable requirements for topology, configuration, and runtime behavior, and develop deterministic tests for integration, load, security, deployment, and recovery, while debugging and documenting decisions.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and operating large-scale cloud platforms.
• Ability to implement and assess IAM, networking, and security with least-privilege access.
• Proven ability to define and meet SLOs, deploy strategies, and disaster recovery plans.

Responsibilities

• Create realistic cloud infrastructure tasks involving distributed systems, networking, security, scalability, and reliability.
• Build reproducible, containerized environments with valid reference solutions and intentionally defective variants.
• Define measurable requirements across infrastructure configuration, deployed topology, and runtime behavior.
• Develop deterministic integration, load, security, failure-injection, deployment, and recovery tests.
• Debug environments, document technical decisions, and review tasks created by other experts.

Skills

Distributed systems

cloud infrastructure

DevOps

SRE

Observability

Autoscaling

Job description

Crossing Hurdles is seeking a Senior Cloud/Platform Engineer to design and operate scalable cloud infrastructures. You will own tasks around distributed systems, networking, security, and reliability, building reproducible containerized environments and reference solutions.

You will define measurable requirements for topology, configuration, and runtime behavior, and develop deterministic tests for integration, load, security, deployment, and recovery, while debugging and documenting decisions.