Cloud Architect
Remote
London, United Kingdom
Freelance
28-02-2025
Job Specifications
Senior Azure Solutions Architect
Contract Inside IR35
Location: Remote/1 day per week in the City of London
Primary Responsibilities
We are looking for a highly motivated, driven, and passionate Cloud Solutions Architect to lead, manage, and deliver solutions across the portfolio.
The primary responsibility of the Cloud Solutions Architect is to define and provide cloud solutions to meet business requirements. You will partner with business application teams, as well as technical and security services teams, to describe and ensure alignment with agreed strategies, policies, principles, and patterns.
Must have strong technical documentation and requirements gathering experience.
Key Responsibilities:
Lead the migration of 20 projects into Microsoft Azure, ensuring a structured and efficient transition.
Act as an incubator for the modernisation of applications, technical infrastructure, and security services through cloud-native solutions.
Partner with Enterprise Architecture to implement a highly scalable, automated, and available cloud platform, aligned with the future-state cloud-first strategy.
Drive adoption and migration from traditional infrastructure to public cloud services.
Create and implement self-service DevOps, support, maintenance, and governance processes for the cloud platform.
Recommend tools and methodologies to support Cloud Platform operations, including the implementation of SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) practices.
Work closely with Development, Cybersecurity, Support, and Enterprise Architecture teams to maintain a robust cloud platform with associated DevOps practices.
Break down large, complex systems into manageable subsystems and components, ensuring scalability and efficiency.
Develop automation practices for provisioning and optimizing systems, facilitating infrastructure orchestration and self-service.
Transform InfraOps into DevOps, implementing CI/CD pipelines and automation for application deployment.
Ensure that systems and applications have efficient and actionable monitoring, with Service Level Objectives (SLOs) aligned with business goals.
Key Skills & Experience Required
Expert-level knowledge of Microsoft Azure and its cloud service models (IaaS, PaaS, Serverless, Containerisation).
Strong technical documentation and requirements gathering experience.
Proven experience building fault-tolerant, scalable, and secure cloud solutions.
Strong experience in leading DevOps practices within mission-critical environments.
Hands-on experience with Agile methodologies and Scrum management.
Deep knowledge of CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), and cloud governance.
Passion for innovation and leading technological change.
Ability to foster a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performance environment for teams.
This is an exciting opportunity for a Senior Cloud Solutions Architect to play a key role in a large-scale cloud migration initiative, working with senior stakeholders across the business to drive digital transformation.
About the Company
At WNTD, we specialise in delivering expert people-based services for data centre and GPUaaS environments, designing and building high-performing sales and technical teams. Our focus is on supporting businesses in technology infrastructure to transform and grow through cutting-edge digital solutions. Since our inception, WNTD has amassed extensive experience in providing data centre talent and rapid deployment of project resources for companies facing ongoing hiring challenges. We understand the complexities of these indust... Know more
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