Platform Architect

TN United Kingdom; City of Edinburgh; Remote; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading digital consultancy is seeking a skilled Platform Architect to design and deliver cloud solutions. This role involves evaluating client needs, creating reliable designs, and ensuring security integration. The position offers remote working flexibility and a competitive salary package.

Benefits

Car allowance

Performance bonus

Flexible working arrangements

Competitive pension scheme contributions

Qualifications

• Proven experience in secure design of cloud environments.
• Experience in security optimization and threat monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate clients’ needs to recommend cloud solutions.
• Design solutions that meet SLAs and address non-functional requirements.
• Ensure security is integrated into all architecture aspects.

Skills

Cloud services

Security optimization

Operational optimization

DevSecOps

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

Job description

Platform Architect - UK Remote (with occasional travel to Glasgow or Reading)

We are looking for a skilled and forward-thinking Platform Architect to join a high-performing digital consultancy. You will be responsible for planning, designing, and delivering solutions built on Cloud services including Azure, AWS, and GCP.

What’s on Offer:

• Salary up to £90,000 depending on experience
• Car allowance and performance bonus
• UK remote working with flexible arrangements
• Competitive pension scheme contributions and more

About the Role:

1. Evaluate clients’ business needs, digital environments, and aspirations to recommend suitable cloud solutions. Provide expertise on cloud-based software development and deployment tools.
2. Create designs using current design patterns such as microservices architecture, with proficiency in Infrastructure as Code.
3. Design solutions that are reliable, meet Service Level Agreements, and address non-functional requirements, including Disaster Recovery.
4. Design services that optimize cloud resources, tuning, and scalability.
5. Ensure security is integrated into all architecture aspects, including network security, encryption, multi-factor authentication, authorization, identity management, and intrusion detection/prevention.

About You:

1. Proven experience in the secure design of cloud platform environments, including selecting appropriate cloud services and native products.
2. Experience with cloud readiness assessments and understanding key dependencies.
3. Ability to develop software using cloud native services.
4. Experience in security optimization, including threat monitoring.
5. Skills in operational optimization, including monitoring and continuous assessment.
6. Development of solutions within a DevSecOps framework.
7. Demonstrable experience designing solutions following frameworks such as Microsoft Azure/AWS Well-Architected Framework or Google Cloud Architecture Framework.
8. Experience conducting cost and ROI analyses of solutions.

Bright Purple is an equal opportunities employer. We are proud to work with clients who value diversity and inclusion in our industry.