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Cloud and Infrastructure Architect, Azure
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Cloud and Infrastructure Architect, Azure
Location: London, City
Type: Hybrid
Salary: Competitive base with bonus and excellent Benefits
Estimated: circa £130k
About the Role
Lead Infra and Cloud Architect is sought by a prestigious and leading City based global financial services organisation. This is a unique opportunity to play a key role in shaping and evolving the hybrid on-prem/Azure environment.
This role focuses on platform architecture rather than application design and truly modern architecture. You will help define and implement the core Azure infrastructure foundations that support enterprise workloads across the organisation.
Key Responsibilities
- Designing Azure Landing Zones and platform architecture
- Defining Azure networking architecture (hub-spoke, segmentation, private connectivity)
- Designing hybrid connectivity between on-premises environments and Azure
- Develop comprehensive cloud and infrastructure solutions, including hybrid and multi-cloud environments, in line with organisational goals.
- Lead the deployment and configuration of infrastructure platforms (e.g., Azure, VMware, Cisco), ensuring seamless integration with existing systems.
- Monitor and analyse infrastructure performance, recommending improvements and proactively resolving issues.
- Optimise resource utilisation to control costs, including budgeting, forecasting, and vendor management.
- Work closely with the DevOps, security, and operations teams to support deployments and ongoing infrastructure projects.
- Evaluate emerging technologies, driving adoption where beneficial to the organisation.
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Key Requirements
- Significant experience designing distributed enterprise Cloud Native systems in hybrid environments.
- Both Cloud (Azure) and currently on-prem experience
- Technologies: VMware, Cisco, Azure
- Expertise in Azure IaaS and PaaS services, and virtualisation technologies.
- Strong understanding of networking, storage, security, and disaster recovery.
- Proven track record in using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Ansible and Terraform
- Experience with Configuration as Code, Policy as Code and Architecture as Code.
- Proven ability in strategic planning and cloud transformation initiatives.
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Desirable
- Diagrams as code, i.e., C4 Modelling and Structurizr, Mermaid, Plantuml,
- Threat Modelling and Secure by design principles.
- Understanding of ZTNA.
This opportunity offers the chance to influence the design and evolution of large-scale Azure infrastructure platforms within a prestigious, global organisation.
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