Infrastructure Cloud Architect

RM Education; Abingdon; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical healthcare

Life assurance

Group Personal Pension Plan

Cycle to work scheme

Extra annual leave

Refer a friend bonus

Job summary

RM Education in the United Kingdom is seeking an experienced Azure Infrastructure Architect to shape reference architectures and secure, scalable cloud designs for RM’s Infrastructure Engineering team. You will translate conceptual designs into tangible deliverables with high availability and cost discipline.

You will collaborate with product architects, development leads, and project teams to ensure infrastructure changes align with best practices and customer needs, while emphasizing

Qualifications

• Deep knowledge of the Microsoft Azure ecosystem.
• Solid understanding of Security, IAM, Networking, and Database concepts.
• Experience in designing, understanding, and troubleshooting complex distributed systems.
• Familiarity with standard project lifecycle processes.
• Time management skills: ability to understand business impact and prioritise tasks accordingly.
• Outstanding interpersonal skills and alignment to RM values.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to reference architectures and reusable patterns for Azure infrastructure.
• Design secure, performant and supportable architectures for delivery by RM's Infrastructure Engineering team.
• Ensure designs include observability, resilience, and security by design.
• Ensure designs are scalable, available, control costs, and provide cost reporting capabilities.
• Work with technical architects, development leads and project teams to ensure changes align with best practice and a customer-led focus.

Skills

Azure

Security

IAM

Networking

Database concepts

Distributed systems

Gitlab CI/CD

Azure DevOps

Docker

Terraform

Bash

Packer

Ansible

Tools

Gitlab CI/CD

Azure DevOps

Docker

Terraform

Bash

Packer

Ansible

Job description

Overview

Would you like to help enrich the lives of learners around the world?

At RM, we've been pioneers of education technology since 1973. We provide technology and resources to the education sector, supporting over 20 million students and improving educational outcomes worldwide.

What we do helps learners at all stages of their lives, from preschool to higher education and professional qualification; we partner with schools, examination boards, governments, and professional organisations globally to make learning more accessible, more engaging, and more impactful.

RM operates through three divisions: Assessment (digital assessment and marking solutions), Technology (managed services, hardware, and software for schools), and TTS (educational resources).

Within the assessment market we are experts in providing solutions for online exam testing and marking and the management and analysis of educational data. We work with government ministries, exam boards and professional awarding bodies for high stakes assessment such as GCSEs, ALevels,and professional qualifications. Each year, our software is used globally to conduct hundreds of thousands of on-screen tests and to mark millions of paper-based scripts. For over a decade we have been partnering with the world’s leading awarding bodies to deliver intuitive, secure, and reliable e-marking solutions.

Visit our website to find out more: www.rm.com/assessment

Responsibilities

Y you will contribute to the quality of our infrastructure design. Ensuring the highest standards, consistent patterns, and a best of breed approach to infrastructure design will be second nature to you. Youwill be a key collaborator with our Product Architects, challenging their decisions and working closely to optimize technical designs. Your insights and expertise will be instrumental in translating conceptual designs into tangible technical deliverables that deliver infrastructure designs to meet business requirements with high availability and controlled costs.

Key responsibilities:

• Contribute to reference architectures and reusable patterns for Azure infrastructure.

• Design secure, performant and supportable architectures for delivery by RM's Infrastructure Engineering team.

• Ensure designs include observability, resilience, and security by design.

• Ensure designs are scalable, available, control costs, and provide cost reporting capabilities.

• Work with technical architects, development leads and project teams to ensure changes to infrastructure and processes align with best practice and with a customer-led focus.

Experience

• Deep knowledge of the Microsoft Azure ecosystem.

• Solid understanding of Security, IAM, Networking, and Database concepts.

• Experience in designing, understanding, and troubleshooting complex distributed systems.

• Familiarity with standard project lifecycle processes.

• Time management skills: ability to understand business impact and prioritise tasks accordingly.

• Outstanding interpersonal skills, a highly personable, engaging approach and a strong alignment to RM's core values: Customer success, high standards, respect for others, innovation, openness and enjoyment at work.

• Excellent collaboration skills.

• Good working knowledge of the following products: Gitlab CI/CD, Azure DevOps, Docker, Terraform, Bash, Packer, Ansible.

What's in it for you?

At RM we have My Work Blend @RM which provides office-based colleagues with multi location and hybrid working options. As well as your office base, you can spend a proportion of your time working at other locations that suit your role and your life, including home, other offices, customer sites, distribution centres or on the move. We encourage you to discuss arrangements for this role with your potential line manager during the recruitment process.

RM is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all permanent and temporary staff to share this commitment. This role is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and all successful candidates will be subject to Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks along with other relevant employment checks.

As well as a competitive salary and our core benefits package which includes private medical healthcare, life assurance and a Group Personal Pension Plan with higher contribution levels available. There are lots of voluntary benefits too. You could buy additional annual leave, join our dental plan, sign up for a health assessment, or take part in our cycle to work scheme. You could even earn yourself an extra bonus for successfully recommending a friend or family member for a position within RM.

To better reflect the society that we serve, we're committed to building a diverse workforce and creating an inclusive and welcoming environment for all. To achieve this, we create teams of talented people from different backgrounds and experiences and strive to be a business where our people can bring their whole selves to work, we also want to make the recruitment process as inclusive as possible for everyone. Should you require additional support with your application or through the interview process, please contact us at [e-mail].

Unfortunately, we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.