At a Glance
- Tasks: Design and optimise secure, scalable cloud platforms for enterprise workloads.
- Company: Acorn Insurance, a forward-thinking company in Liverpool.
- Benefits: 35 days holiday, mental health support, flexible working, and career growth opportunities.
- Other info: Hybrid working options available to support your work-life balance.
- Why this job: Join a dynamic team and shape the future of cloud infrastructure.
- Qualifications: Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP is essential.
Location: Liverpool City Centre on a Hybrid working basis
Salary: Up to £75,000 per annum DOE
Job Type: Permanent, Full Time
Working Hours: 37.5 hours per week, Monday-Friday 9.00am - 5.30pm
Acorn is looking for a passionate Cloud Infrastructure Architect who will be responsible for designing, implementing, and optimising secure, scalable, and highly available cloud platforms.
Responsibilities:
- Develop end-to-end cloud architectures, supporting enterprise workloads, including compute, storage, networking, identity, and automation.
- Develop a close working relationship with Platform Engineering to ensure robust design and delivery across our cloud platforms.
- Create reference architectures, design patterns, and technical standards for cloud environments.
- Design hybrid and multi-cloud strategies leveraging platforms such as Azure, AWS, and GCP.
- Lead the design and implementation of core cloud infrastructure components: virtual networks, identity and access, monitoring, encryption, resilience, and backup strategies.
- Support migration of workloads from on-premise to cloud platforms following best-practice frameworks.
- Ensure cloud designs adhere to security standards, regulatory requirements, and architectural governance.
- Implement Zero Trust principles, network segmentation, encryption, key management, and secure access control models.
- Partner with SecOps teams to ensure monitoring, logging, and incident response capabilities are embedded.
- Develop automation and service optimisation strategies to improve performance, cost efficiency, and availability.
- Conduct capacity planning, resilience engineering, disaster recovery design, and performance tuning.
- Mentor engineers across cloud, DevOps, and infrastructure teams.
Requirements:
- Extensive experience designing and supporting cloud infrastructure on Azure, AWS, or GCP.
- Strong understanding of networking (VNETs/VPCs, routing, DNS, load balancing, firewalls).
- Knowledge of infrastructure-as-code and automation tooling.
- Proven experience building scalable, resilient, and secure cloud architectures.
Benefits:
- 35 days' holiday (including bank holidays) with additional buy/sell options.
- 24/7 mental health support & free counselling available.
- Flexible benefits, including early access to salary via our internal platform.
- Hybrid working options to support work-life balance and individual needs.
- Recognition awards, social events & more.
Our Commitment to our colleagues:
- Earn recognition and accreditation from leading organisations that share our commitment to people and growth: Mindful Employer, Disability Confident Level 1 & 2, Menopause Friendly accredited, Armed Forces Covenant signatory.
Before applying, please know: These will include a standard criminal record check and an insolvency register check.
Visa Requirements: We can only consider applicants who have at least one year remaining on their Graduate or Post-Study Work visa.
AWS Cloud Infrastructure Architect employer: Acorn Insurance
Acorn Insurance is an excellent employer, offering a supportive work culture that prioritises employee well-being and growth. With flexible working hours and comprehensive mental health support, our team members thrive in a dynamic environment where they can develop their skills and advance within the insurance industry. Join us in Liverpool for a rewarding career where your contributions truly matter.
