Cloud Architect in London

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You’ll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you’ll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long‑term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.

In this role, you’ll work in one of our IBM Consulting FutureNow Centers, where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

Your role and responsibilities:

• Participating in various customer projects, from new infrastructure builds and migrations to audits and big data.
• Implementing configuration management infrastructure.
• Giving workshops and designing recommendations for a technical team.
• Becoming a trusted advisor for high‑profile enterprise businesses and jointly manage the customer relationship and roadmap with the Nordcloud Sales team.
• Having a selection of different ‘hats’ to put on and have the luxury of following customer projects from start to release.

Required education: None

Required technical and professional expertise:

• Hands‑on experience with Cloud Architecture Design and/or Cloud Architectural Patterns for Development.
• Advanced knowledge of AWS platform.
• Being able to see the bigger technical picture to drive the technical direction of a platform.
• Create low level designs that engineers can work from.
• Designing complex multi‑tenant systems aligned to best practice.
• Designing, deploying and operating AWS landing zones (Landing Zone Accelerators).
• Championing infrastructure as code and opinionated about IaC structure and modularisation.
• Scoping container/microservices to design Cloud solutions.
• Designing container‑based solutions such as ECS, EKS, OCP.
• Mitigating security risks in AWS and supporting a mature Cloud Security Model.

Technically, you need to have considerable hands‑on experience designing and implementing enterprise‑scale cloud environments. This role is of considerable technical difficulty so experience working in an enterprise‑scale cloud platform engineering environment is essential. You won’t primarily be coding but shouldn’t be totally adverse to being hands on committing code to turn some of their designs into reality (with the help of the cloud engineers). You should be AWS certified with certifications such as the AWS Solutions Architect Associate or Professional.

Preferred technical and professional experience:

• Cloud Migration Expertise: Exposure to cloud migration projects, including assessment, design, and execution, with a focus on deploying and managing essential AWS resources.
• Container Orchestration Skills: Proficiency in setting up and managing Kubernetes clusters through Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), enabling container orchestration and scaling.
• Automation Tools Knowledge: Experience with automation tools like AWS CloudFormation or Terraform, and DevOps practices such as continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD).

Job Details:

• City / Township / Village: London
• State / Province: London, City of
• Country: United Kingdom
• Work arrangement: Hybrid
• Area of work: Software Engineering
• Employment type: Regular
• Position type: Professional
• Hybrid remote: up to 80% or 4 days a week (home on weekends – based on project requirements)
• Company: IBM
• Shift: General (daytime)

IBM is proud to be an equal‑opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

IBM wants you to bring your whole self to work and for you this might mean the ability to work flexibly. If you are interested in a flexible working pattern, please talk to our recruitment team to find out if this is possible in the current working environment.