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Job Title: Cloud Platform Architect
Location: London 3/4x a week
Salary/Rate: £600/700 Daily
Start Date: In the next week
Job Type: Initial 6 month contract Inside IR35
Company Introduction:
We have an exciting opportunity now available with one of our sector-leading consultancy clients! They are currently looking for a cloud Platform Architect to join their team for an initial six-month contract.
You'll be brought in too lead the design, build, and operational excellence of the organisation’s cloud platform across private and public cloud environments. Own the end-to-end IaC-based provisioning, configuration management, patch orchestration, and cloud governance framework. Drive the transformation from manual infrastructure operations to a fully automated, self-service, policy-governed cloud platform that delivers speed, security, cost efficiency, and reliability.
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Mandatory Skills:
- Plat Engineering for on-premises & cloud
- IaC
- CI/CD pipeline & tools
- Security
- Network
- Landing zones
- Observability
- Self-servicing
- DB automation
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Key Responsibilities:
- Architect and implement IaC-based cloud provisioning using Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi 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 (OPA, Sentinel, Azure Policy) 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 with SRE and Security teams to embed reliability, observability, and compliance into the platform from the ground up
- Produce architectural decision records (ADRs), runbooks, and platform documentation for operational excellence
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