Azure Cloud Architect Lead: Hybrid Cloud & AI

IBM; United States; Hybrid; USD 119,000 - 172,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Private medical and dental cover

Group pension with salary sacrifice

Job summary

IBM Consulting FutureNow Centers seek an experienced Cloud Architect to design, lead and deliver cloud solutions across public and private sectors. You will guide delivery engagements, mentor architects, and drive customer success with a strong pre-sales mindset.

This role requires hands-on cloud design, a background in IaaS/PaaS/SaaS, and strong AWS/Azure knowledge. International travel within the UK and Europe may be required.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with Cloud Architecture Design and patterns.
• Experience leading Cloud Architects and delivery engagements.
• Advanced knowledge of Azure or AWS (multi-cloud preferred).
• Background in IaaS, PaaS, SaaS design and delivery.
• Windows/Linux sysadmin background is a plus.
• Experience with IaaC for cloud management.
• CI/CD pipelines experience.
• Security, networking, virtualization, load balancers, storage and DB knowledge.
• Container technologies (Kubernetes, OpenShift).
• Coding/scripting (Bash, Python, PowerShell).
• Strong client-facing and pre-sales mindset.
• Fluent English communication.

Responsibilities

• Participating in customer projects from infrastructure builds to migrations and audits.
• Implementing configuration management infrastructure.
• Coaching and leading architects and engineers; guiding delivery engagements and presales.
• People line management including appraisals and workload planning.
• Acting as a trusted advisor for enterprise customers and managing roadmaps with Sales.
• Handling multiple hats across projects from start to release.
• Willingness to travel within the UK and Europe as needed.

Skills

Cloud architecture design

Lead delivery engagements

Azure or AWS

IaaS/PaaS/SaaS

DevOps

CI/CD pipelines

Security/Network/Virtualization

Container technologies

IaaC

Scripting: Bash/Python/PowerShell

English fluency

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Job description

IBM Consulting FutureNow Centers seek an experienced Cloud Architect to design, lead and deliver cloud solutions across public and private sectors. You will guide delivery engagements, mentor architects, and drive customer success with a strong pre-sales mindset.

This role requires hands-on cloud design, a background in IaaS/PaaS/SaaS, and strong AWS/Azure knowledge. International travel within the UK and Europe may be required.