At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead the design and delivery of secure cloud platforms on Azure and AWS.
- Company: Dynamic tech company focused on cloud innovation and transformation.
- Benefits: Competitive daily rate, flexible working, and potential for contract extension.
- Other info: Collaborative environment with opportunities for professional growth.
- Why this job: Shape enterprise-scale cloud strategies and make a real impact in tech.
- Qualifications: 8-12+ years in cloud engineering with strong Azure and Terraform expertise.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
3 Month initial contract, scope for extension Inside IR35, 550-600 a day.
Location: Southampton - 2 x a week on site.
Role Overview:
We are seeking an experienced Principal Cloud Platform Engineer with strong DevOps leadership capability to support the design, delivery and continuous improvement of secure, scalable and resilient cloud platforms across Azure and AWS environments. The role will focus on building and governing cloud architecture patterns, landing zones, infrastructure standards and automation practices, while working closely with engineering, security, product and delivery teams.
The successful candidate will provide manager-level technical leadership across:
- DevOps
- Cloud platforms
- Infrastructure as Code
- CI/CD
- Networking
- Security
- Observability
- Reliability engineering
They will help shape enterprise-scale transformation, hybrid cloud strategy and platform services aligned to the Azure Well-Architected Framework, ensuring solutions are robust, cost-effective and operationally ready.
Responsibilities include:
- Own and evolve Azure & AWS cloud architecture, platform patterns, guardrails, and design principles.
- Provide architectural oversight across Terraform modules, CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions), networking patterns, and compute/storage design.
- Evaluate platform changes including major provider upgrades (AzureRM / Cloudflare), DR and high availability improvements, cost optimisation strategies, and observability frameworks.
- Lead technical designs for large-scale refactoring and provider upgrades, environment creation pipelines, secure container registry access, identity integration and Zero Trust patterns, and event-driven architectures with caching strategies.
- Drive Cloudflare integration (CDN, WAF, edge, traffic management) aligned to Azure networking and security architecture.
- Provide engineering governance through review of RFCs, design documents, and technical decisions, and collaborate with delivery teams, security, shared services, and product groups to maintain aligned architecture.
Requires:
- 8-12+ years in cloud engineering/architecture, with deep expertise in Azure architecture (networking, App Services, Functions, APIM, PaaS, ACR, VNets, Private Endpoints, identity/security).
- Strong Terraform experience (modules, pipelines, state management).
- Strong CI/CD background.
- Experience designing for SRE (DR, failover, monitoring, logging, autoscaling, resilience) and working across multiple engineering teams.
- Previous Cloudflare experience preferred.
- Architecture-led platform role (not a pure Solution Architect); deep scripting expertise not a primary requirement.
Locations
Principal Cloud Architect in Hampshire, Portsmouth employer: TXP
Join a forward-thinking organisation in Southampton that values innovation and collaboration, offering a dynamic work culture where your expertise as a Principal Cloud Architect will directly influence enterprise-scale transformations. With competitive daily rates and the flexibility of hybrid working, you will have ample opportunities for professional growth while contributing to cutting-edge cloud solutions across Azure and AWS environments. The company fosters a supportive environment that encourages continuous learning and development, making it an excellent choice for those seeking meaningful and rewarding employment.
