Senior Cloud Platform Architect — Lead Multi-Cloud IaC

Hitachi; Greater London; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Industry-leading benefits

Flexible work arrangements

Culture of belonging and ownership

Job summary

Hitachi Digital Services in London, United Kingdom, seeks a Cloud & Data Engineering professional to lead the design, build, and operational excellence of our cloud platform across private and public clouds.

The role demands deep IaC expertise, multi-cloud experience, strong leadership, and the ability to drive governance, FinOps, and security integration, with mentoring responsibilities for two Cloud Platform Engineers.

Qualifications

• Expert-level IaC proficiency across Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, or Bicep.
• Deep experience with at least two major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, or VMware private cloud).
• Strong experience with Kubernetes (EKS/AKS/GKE) and platform services.
• Configuration management expertise: Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or SaltStack.
• CI/CD tooling experience: Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or Azure DevOps for infra pipelines.
• Policy-as-code frameworks: OPA/Rego, HashiCorp Sentinel, Azure Policy, or AWS Config Rules.
• Monitoring and observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, CloudWatch, or Dynatrace.
• Networking fundamentals: VPC/VNet design, load balancers, DNS, CDN, and hybrid connectivity.
• Leadership and mentoring ability; stakeholder management and communication across levels.
• Strategic thinking balancing technical depth and business outcomes; drive change and build consensus.

Responsibilities

• Architect and implement IaC-based cloud provisioning across multi-cloud and private cloud environments.
• Design and automate end-to-end infrastructure lifecycle management: provisioning, patching, updates, scaling, and decommissioning.
• Build and maintain cloud governance guardrails using policy-as-code to enforce security, cost, and compliance standards.
• Implement FinOps practices including automated rightsizing, reserved instance management, waste detection, and cost allocation tagging.
• Lead CI/CD pipeline engineering for infrastructure deployments, integrating automated testing, security scanning, and approval gates.
• Design self-service infrastructure portals enabling development teams to provision compliant environments without manual intervention.
• Mentor and coach 2 Cloud Platform Engineers, establish coding standards, conduct architecture reviews, and drive knowledge sharing.
• Collaborate SRE and Security teams to embed reliability, observability, and compliance into the platform from the ground up.
• Produce architectural decision records, runbooks, and platform documentation for operational excellence.

Skills

IaC expertise

Cloud platforms

Kubernetes

Configuration management

CI/CD tooling

Policy as code

Monitoring & observability

Networking fundamentals

Stakeholder management

Strategic thinking

Change influence

Analytical mindset

Prioritisation across streams

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Pulumi

Bicep

Kubernetes

Ansible

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Azure DevOps

Job description

Hitachi Digital Services in London, United Kingdom, seeks a Cloud & Data Engineering professional to lead the design, build, and operational excellence of our cloud platform across private and public clouds.

The role demands deep IaC expertise, multi-cloud experience, strong leadership, and the ability to drive governance, FinOps, and security integration, with mentoring responsibilities for two Cloud Platform Engineers.