Senior Architect Private Cloud (Sheffield)
Job Title: Senior Architect Private Cloud
Location: Sheffield (Hybrid) 2 days a week in the office
Day rate: £600 per day inside IR35
Start Date: 7th September
We're working on an exciting contract opportunity for a Senior Architect Private Cloud to join a major global financial organisation, leading the design and evolution of a private cloud platform at significant scale in Sheffield.
Job Responsibilities/Objectives
- Define and drive Private Cloud architecture aligned with Client Cloud Strategy
- Provide hands on technical leadership across virtualization containers Kubernetes, Kafka and microservices platforms
- Review architecture designs and ensure solutions are secure scalable resilient and cost effective
- Establish engineering standards reference architectures reusable patterns and platform guardrails
- Lead the design and evolution of private cloud platform components including compute storage networking orchestration and platform services
- Provide technical leadership for Kafka and EventDriven Architecture adoption
- Establish GitOps CICD automation and configuration management standards
Experience we're looking for
- Proven experience as a Senior Architect Lead Engineer Staff Engineer Platform Architect or equivalent
- Strong Private Cloud and Platform Engineering background
- Deep expertise in at least two of the following
- VMware or Virtualization Technologies
- Kubernetes and Container Platforms
- KafkaEvent Streaming Platforms
If this sounds like your next exciting challenge, we'd love to hear from you. Reach out to find out more and apply today!