Senior Cloud Platform Architect - Hybrid and Scalable

Grand Parade; Kraków; Hybrid; PLN 260,000 - 380,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Gym discounts

Cycle to work

Health & wellbeing programs

Pension and bonus schemes

Discounts at retailers

Job summary

Grand Parade, part of William Hill, Kraków, is seeking a Principal Cloud Engineer to provide technical leadership across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments. You will design secure, scalable platforms and drive CI/CD and observability improvements, while mentoring engineers and collaborating with cybersecurity and operations teams.

The role requires extensive hands-on experience with AWS, Kubernetes, VMware, and Infrastructure as Code, and the ability to translate regulatory requirements

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing, implementing, and operating enterprise-scale cloud and infrastructure platforms.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS services and cloud architecture.
• Deep knowledge of Kubernetes and containerized production environments.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and infrastructure automation.
• Broad IT infrastructure understanding, including networking, storage, compute, virtualization and security fundamentals.
• Admin/troubleshooting across Windows and Linux operating systems.
• Experience with VMware and hybrid cloud environments.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines.
• Monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability practices.
• Ability to operate highly available production systems in regulated environments.
• Ability to use AI tools effectively in engineering workflows.
• Strong technical documentation skills and ability to communicate architectural decisions.
• Professional proficiency in English.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and evolution of secure, scalable, resilient cloud and infrastructure solutions.
• Provide technical leadership for AWS, Kubernetes, VMware, OS, networking, storage, and hybrid infrastructure.
• Design and implement infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code principles and tools.
• Resolve complex issues across cloud platforms, infrastructure, applications, and production environments.
• Produce architecture documents, implementation plans, and operational documentation.
• Improve deployment processes and CI/CD adoption.
• Strengthen monitoring, logging, alerting, observability, and capacity management.
• Support production systems, incident response, root-cause analysis, and prevention.
• Identify automation opportunities in provisioning, configuration, deployment, and operations.
• Use AI-assisted engineering tools to improve productivity and automation.
• Lead technical discussions and design reviews across teams.
• Communicate complex topics to senior management and non-technical stakeholders.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity, enterprise architecture, compliance, and operations.
• Mentor engineers and raise cloud engineering standards.

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes

IaC

CI/CD

VMware

Windows

Linux

Hybrid cloud

English proficiency

Tools

VMware

Job description

Grand Parade, part of William Hill, Kraków, is seeking a Principal Cloud Engineer to provide technical leadership across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments. You will design secure, scalable platforms and drive CI/CD and observability improvements, while mentoring engineers and collaborating with cybersecurity and operations teams.

The role requires extensive hands-on experience with AWS, Kubernetes, VMware, and Infrastructure as Code, and the ability to translate regulatory requirements