DV-Cleared Cloud Architect: Secure & Scalable Solutions

DataSource Computer Employment Ltd.; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 39,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

26 days annual leave

Pension matched up to 8%

Private medical insurance

Annual on-target bonus

Season ticket loans

Paid professional subscriptions

Life assurance

Overseas remote working up to 20 days

Job summary

DataSource Computer Employment Ltd. is recruiting a Cloud Consultant to work with Defence and National Security clients across the UK. You will design secure, scalable cloud solutions and guide migrations to AWS, Azure or GCP.

This is a permanent, hybrid role with 37.5 hours per week, based in London, Bristol or Manchester. Salary ranges from £39,000 to £100,000 per year, plus benefits including pension matching, private medical insurance, and annual bonus.

Qualifications

• DV clearance is active
• Extensive cloud architecture experience across AWS, Azure or GCP
• Designing secure, scalable, highly available cloud architectures
• Experience migrating applications and infrastructure to cloud environments
• Strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure, networking, security, compute and storage
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and automation tools
• Containers and orchestration experience (Docker/Kubernetes) beneficial
• Understanding of DevOps, CI/CD and how cloud enables delivery
• Knowledge of cloud security principles and IAM
• Experience producing technical designs and roadmaps
• Strong stakeholder engagement and client-facing skills
• Experience collaborating in multidisciplinary teams
• Defence/National Security or regulated environments experience advantageous

Responsibilities

• Work with clients and multidisciplinary teams to understand complex requirements and design secure, scalable cloud solutions.
• Design and deliver cloud solutions meeting security, scalability, resilience, performance and availability requirements.
• Assess existing environments, define cloud architectures and roadmaps, and support migration to the cloud.
• Translate requirements into practical cloud solutions with architects and engineers.
• Contribute to architectural decisions, documentation and design reviews.
• Explain technical options to clients, understand challenges and recommend cloud technologies.
• As experience grows, develop cloud architectures, support migration programmes, and guide engineering teams.

Skills

Active DV clearance

AWS

Azure

GCP

Terraform

CloudFormation

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD

Security best practices

Infrastructure as Code

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

ARM/Bicep

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD tooling

Job description

DataSource Computer Employment Ltd. is recruiting a Cloud Consultant to work with Defence and National Security clients across the UK. You will design secure, scalable cloud solutions and guide migrations to AWS, Azure or GCP.

This is a permanent, hybrid role with 37.5 hours per week, based in London, Bristol or Manchester. Salary ranges from £39,000 to £100,000 per year, plus benefits including pension matching, private medical insurance, and annual bonus.