Salary: £41,500 - 69,500 per year
Requirements
- Expert-level infrastructure-as-code proficiency: Terraform (strongly preferred), CloudFormation, Pulumi, or Bicep
- Deep experience with at least two major cloud platforms: AWS, Azure, GCP, or VMware private cloud
- Strong experience with Kubernetes (EKS/AKS/GKE), container orchestration, and platform services
- Configuration management expertise: Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or SaltStack
- CI/CD tooling experience: Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or Azure DevOps for infrastructure pipelines
- Policy-as-code frameworks experience: OPA/Rego, HashiCorp Sentinel, Azure Policy, or AWS Config Rules
- Monitoring and observability experience: Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, CloudWatch, or Dynatrace
- Networking fundamentals: VPC/VNet design, load balancers, DNS, CDN, and hybrid connectivity
- Strong leadership and mentoring ability
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills across all levels
- Strategic thinking with the ability to balance technical depth and business outcomes
- Proven ability to drive change, influence without authority, and build consensus
- Strong analytical and problem-solving mindset with attention to detail
- Ability to manage competing priorities across multiple workstreams simultaneously
- 7+ years in cloud/infrastructure engineering with 3+ years in a senior or lead capacity
- Proven track record of delivering large-scale IaC transformation and cloud migration programmes
- Relevant certifications: AWS Solutions Architect Professional, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, CKA/CKAD, or Terraform Associate/Professional
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience
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 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 SRE and Security teams to embed reliability, observability, and compliance into the platform from the ground up
- Produce architectural decision records, runbooks, and platform documentation for operational excellence
Technologies
- AWS
- Ansible
- Architect
- Azure
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- CloudWatch
- Datadog
- DevOps
- Dynatrace
- GCP
- GitHub
- GitLab
- Grafana
- Support
- Jenkins
- Kubernetes
- Prometheus
- Pulumi
- Puppet
- Security
- Terraform
- VMware
- ASP.NET
- ArgoCD
- GitOps
- Istio
- Network
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We are Hitachi Digital Services, a global digital solutions and transformation business with a people-centric mission to power good and future-proof urban spaces, conserve natural resources, protect rainforests, and save lives. We are looking for a Cloud & Data Engineering professional to lead the design, build, and operational excellence of our cloud platform across private and public cloud environments in London, United Kingdom. We offer industry-leading benefits, support, and services focused on holistic health and wellbeing, flexible arrangements where role and location allow, and a culture of belonging, autonomy, freedom, and ownership. We are committed to an inclusive, merit-based environment and welcome applicants from all backgrounds.
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Cloud Platform Architect in London employer: Hitachi
At Hitachi Energy, we pride ourselves on being an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work environment in Birmingham that fosters collaboration and innovation. Our commitment to employee growth is evident through continuous training opportunities and a culture that values diversity and inclusion, ensuring every team member can thrive while contributing to a sustainable energy future. Join us to be part of a global team dedicated to making a meaningful impact in the energy sector.
