Technical Architect - Azure

Technical Architect - on site

Active SC or DV Clearance Required
On-site 5 Days per Week (Travel/Accommodation supported through Methods)
Salary up to £88,000 + Benefits

Methods is supporting a client operating within a highly secure environment who is seeking an experienced Technical Architect to join a team delivering enterprise-scale infrastructure and cloud solutions.

This role would suit a technically strong architect with broad enterprise IT experience and deep expertise in Microsoft Azure, capable of bringing together multiple technology domains into a coherent end-to-end architecture.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build and support enterprise-scale Azure environments, including landing zones, governance and security controls.
• Architect hybrid cloud solutions spanning Azure and on-premises infrastructure.
• Lead technical workshops with customers and stakeholders to understand requirements and define solutions.
• Design Azure networking solutions including hub-and-spoke architectures, ExpressRoute, VPNs and network security.
• Design and support containerised workloads using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
• Create high and low-level technical designs (HLDs/LLDs) and guide engineering teams through implementation.
• Review customer environments against Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) and Well-Architected Framework (WAF) best practices.
• Provide architectural guidance across identity, networking, storage, data platforms and cloud governance.
• Support the adoption of Infrastructure as Code (IaC), DevSecOps and GitOps delivery methodologies.

Essential Experience

• Proven experience as a Technical Architect, Cloud Architect, Infrastructure Architect or Platform Architect.
• Deep expertise in Microsoft Azure.
• Strong understanding of Azure landing zones, governance and cloud security.
• Experience designing and supporting hybrid cloud environments.
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes, ideally Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
• Experience with Microsoft Entra ID/Active Directory.
• Knowledge of Azure networking including virtual networks, ExpressRoute, VPN and network security.
• Experience producing technical design documentation including HLDs and LLDs.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and customer-facing consultancy experience.

Desirable Experience

• Terraform or Bicep.
• VMware Cloud Foundation.
• DevSecOps, GitOps and CI/CD delivery practices.
• Experience working within government, defence or secure environments.

Clearance Requirements

Candidates must hold active SC or DV clearance due to the nature of the work.