Hybrid Cloud Architect – Multi-Cloud & Zero Trust

Onyx-Conseil; Wallasey; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Acorn Insurance in Liverpool is seeking a Cloud Infrastructure Architect to design, implement, and optimise secure, scalable cloud platforms. You will provide technical leadership across cloud strategy, governance, and operational excellence, partnering with engineering, security, and business teams to meet enterprise standards.

The role focuses on hybrid cloud architectures (Azure/AWS/GCP), infrastructure as code, and secure, resilient designs, with collaboration across the Platform Engineering

Qualifications

• 3+ years across networking, infrastructure, cloud platform and system administration.
• Extensive experience designing and supporting cloud infrastructure on Azure, AWS, or GCP.
• Strong understanding of networking (VNETs/VPCs, routing, DNS, load balancing, firewalls).
• Deep knowledge of infrastructure-as-code and automation tooling.
• Experience with container platforms (AKS, EKS, GKE, Kubernetes) and serverless architectures.
• Strong background in identity and access management (Azure AD, IAM, RBAC).
• Proven experience building scalable, resilient, and secure cloud architectures.
• Solid understanding of cloud cost optimisation and FinOps principles

Responsibilities

• Develop end-to-end cloud architectures supporting enterprise workloads.
• Collaborate with HoPE to ensure robust design and delivery across cloud platforms.
• Create reference architectures, design patterns, and standards for cloud environments.
• Design hybrid and multi-cloud strategies (Azure, AWS, GCP).
• Evaluate new cloud services, tools, and technologies to guide technical direction.
• Lead design and implementation of core cloud infrastructure components.
• Define IaC patterns using Terraform, Bicep, or ARM.
• Support migration of workloads to cloud platforms following best practices.
• Ensure designs adhere to security standards and governance.
• Implement Zero Trust, network segmentation, encryption, and access control models.
• Partner with Security Operations for monitoring and incident response integration.
• Develop automation and service optimisation for performance and cost efficiency.
• Conduct capacity planning, resilience engineering, DR design, and performance tuning.
• Act as SME and advisor for cloud strategy and initiatives.
• Mentor engineers in cloud, DevOps, and infrastructure teams.
• Communicate technical concepts to executives and managers

Skills

Cloud architecture

Networking

Cloud platforms (Azure/AWS/GCP)

IAM & RBAC

Kubernetes

FinOps awareness

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

ARM templates

AKS

EKS

GKE

Job description

Acorn Insurance in Liverpool is seeking a Cloud Infrastructure Architect to design, implement, and optimise secure, scalable cloud platforms. You will provide technical leadership across cloud strategy, governance, and operational excellence, partnering with engineering, security, and business teams to meet enterprise standards.

The role focuses on hybrid cloud architectures (Azure/AWS/GCP), infrastructure as code, and secure, resilient designs, with collaboration across the Platform Engineering