Senior Cloud Architect & Tech Lead (AWS/Azure)

Parallel Consulting; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly options

Job summary

Parallel Consulting is seeking aSenior Technical Cloud Specialist to join a Glasgow-based client delivery team. The role combines cloud architecture, hands-on engineering, and technical leadership to design and deliver cloud solutions while supporting client stakeholders and engineering teams.

You will act as a trusted technical advisor, providing guidance across cloud projects, managed services, and platform technologies, with a focus on security, scalability, and reliability.

Qualifications

• Experience as a Cloud Architect, Senior Cloud Engineer, Platform Engineer or similar.
• Experience designing and implementing enterprise cloud solutions.
• Strong Terraform and Infrastructure as Code knowledge.
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions.
• Understanding of networking, security, identity, storage and compute services.
• Technical leadership or mentoring experience.
• Strong troubleshooting and communication skills.
• Cloud Managed Services experience.
• Experience leading technical teams or platform areas.
• Knowledge of both AWS and Azure.
• Platform engineering, automation, or DevOps experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and support cloud infrastructure solutions.
• Work hands-on across cloud projects and managed services.
• Translate business and technical requirements into cloud solutions.
• Review and improve cloud designs to ensure security, scalability, and reliability.
• Troubleshoot complex cloud issues.
• Act as a technical lead and key client contact.
• Provide guidance and support to engineering teams.
• Help drive best practices across cloud and platform technologies.
• Lead technical teams or platform areas.
• Support cloud strategy in collaboration with client stakeholders.

Skills

Terraform

Cloud architecture

GitHub Actions

DevOps

Networking

Security

Platform engineering

Automation

Tools

AWS

Azure

Job description

Parallel Consulting is seeking aSenior Technical Cloud Specialist to join a Glasgow-based client delivery team. The role combines cloud architecture, hands-on engineering, and technical leadership to design and deliver cloud solutions while supporting client stakeholders and engineering teams.

You will act as a trusted technical advisor, providing guidance across cloud projects, managed services, and platform technologies, with a focus on security, scalability, and reliability.