Principal Architect - Private Cloud

Iomart; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Job summary

Iomart is seeking a Principal Architect - Private Cloud to lead the design and governance of VMware-based private and public cloud platforms. You will guide technology roadmaps, make high‑level decisions, and ensure solutions align with corporate strategy and partner ecosystems.

In this role you will shape reference architectures, validate requirements, and drive productisation efforts. You will collaborate across product, technology, and security teams, evangelise cloud platforms, and own our

Qualifications

• Experience designing private cloud platforms in an MSP environment.
• Ability to translate business requirements into technically feasible solutions.
• Experience documenting roadmaps and high/low level designs.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain a research and development roadmap aligned with technology and product objectives.
• Translate customer requirements into reference architectures and validate functional/non-functional requirements.
• Prototype and validate new capabilities in lab/pre-production environments.
• Act as contributor and decision maker within the design authority.
• Justify investments with business case development for portfolio strategies.
• Explain how VMware, Broadcom, and Iomart tech ecosystems operate together.
• Collaborate with networking, security, and storage architects to co-develop platforms.
• Provide market intelligence on cloud trends and VMware roadmaps for competitive awareness.
• Evangelise VMware technologies and best practices across the business.
• Own architecture standards, patterns, documentation, and QA/acceptance testing frameworks.
• Approve Go-Live readiness for services and major changes.
• Maintain collaboration across product practices within the Group.

Skills

VMware

Cloud architecture

Education

VMware Certified Advanced Professional - VMware Cloud Foundation Architect

VMware Certified Advanced Professional - VMware Cloud Foundation Networking/Storage/Automation/Operations

Job description

What you’ll be doing:

As our Principal Architect - Private Cloud you’ll be part of our private cloud centre of excellence, supporting the development of VMware-based private and public cloud platforms. From technology and product roadmap requirements, you’ll provide guidance and act as a decision maker on behalf of technical leadership on the adoption and investment of go-forward technologies and identify, validate, and design solutions for our product portfolio.

What you’ll be doing:

As our Principal Architect - Private Cloud you’ll be part of our private cloud centre of excellence, supporting the development of VMware-based private and public cloud platforms. From technology and product roadmap requirements, you’ll provide guidance and act as a decision maker on behalf of technical leadership on the adoption and investment of go-forward technologies and identify, validate, and design solutions for our product portfolio.

Additional responsibilities include:

• Working closely with Product Management, the Technology office, and voice of the customer stakeholders to create and maintain a research and development roadmap that aligns with internal technology, product, and strategic alliance partner objectives.
• Translate customer and business requirements into technically feasible solutions by producing reference architectures, and validating functional and non-functional requirements of chosen technologies.
• Prototype and validate new capabilities in lab or pre-production environments, providing recommendations for productisation and operationalisation.
• Act as a contributor and decision maker within the extended centre of excellence and technical design authority.
• Justify, through business case development, the investments required by the business to realise corporate and portfolio strategies.
• Understand and inform the business on how cloud technologies, primarily VMware by Broadcom, will operate alongside Iomart’s extended technology ecosystems.
• Work beyond the remit of cloud and contribute to the development of adjacent technologies by working closely with architects responsible for networking, security, and storage and take shared accountability for the development of our platforms.
• Actively engage with market intelligence sources to provide current and forward thinking thought leadership on cloud technology trends and market drivers, particularly VMware’s development roadmap to provide competitive awareness to the business.
• Act as an evangelist for our cloud solutions, supporting communication and training within the business on VMware technologies and best practices.
• Own and maintain solution architecture standards including design patterns, documentation (reference architectures, HLD, LLD), and quality assurance and acceptance testing frameworks.
• Act as an approver and decision maker for the Go Live readiness of services and major service changes.
• Ensure there is ongoing collaboration and transparency between product practices across the Group, removing silos

You’ll be critical to Iomart retaining and maximising its VMware Pinnacle VCSP status, and remaining at the front of the market for scalable, secure hybrid cloud managed services

We want to hear from you if you:

• Have experience either from product development or technology within a managed services provider
• Have experiencing designing private cloud platforms in an MSP environment, including the design of networking (ACI, VMware NSX), storage (fibre-channel, vSAN), data protection (backup and recovery) and security (secure by design best practice, network security, IdAM).
• Have proven experience designing and implementing VMware-based cloud solutions across VMware Cloud Director, legacy vSphere solutions, and VMware Cloud Foundation 9.x.
• Have experience actively participating in VMware’s partner forums including the VMware User Group, Broadcom Knights, or VMware vExpert Programme.
• Are experienced in documenting technical roadmaps, implementation plans, and high-level/low-level designs.
• Can contribute to business case development and decision making rationale to senior (C-suite, director) stakeholders.

Qualifications/Credentials required:

• VMware Certified Advanced Professional - VMware Cloud Foundation Architect
• VMware Certified Advanced Professional - VMware Cloud Foundation Networking / Storage / Automation / Operations.

What’s in it for me?

• ttractive package

Who you’ll be doing it for:

Iomart is the UK’s leading Secure Cloud Managed Services Provider. We are passionate about delivering Hybrid Cloud, Data Protection, Cyber Security and Secure Connectivity to over 9,000 organisations in the UK and globally.

• We have over 25 years expertise in data centre and cloud services
• Over 600 skilled professionals and turnover over £143m
• Our HQ is in Glasgow and offices across the UK.
• We provide critical services across all public and private sectors

This particular role will be part of the Product & Innovation function with a peer group of principal architects covering our other practices.

We are a Broadcom Pinnacle VCSP, a Microsoft Azure Expert MSP, and a Commvault Elite MSP - we use industry leading, cutting- edge technology to deliver high value, integrated services to organisations across the globe.

We’re an equal opportunities employer and want our vacancies to be available to all, so if you need us to make any reasonable adjustments during the process then just let us know.