At a Glance
- Tasks: Design and improve secure, scalable cloud platforms on Azure and AWS.
- Company: Leading tech firm focused on innovative cloud solutions.
- Benefits: Competitive daily rate, remote work flexibility, and potential for contract extension.
- Other info: Collaborative environment with opportunities for professional growth.
- Why this job: Join a dynamic team shaping enterprise-scale cloud transformations.
- 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 and 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.
- 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), and 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.
Cloud Architect - Fully Remote in Southampton employer: TXP
Join a forward-thinking company that values innovation and collaboration, offering a fully remote Cloud Architect role with the flexibility of working from Southampton two days a week. Our supportive work culture fosters continuous learning and professional growth, providing you with opportunities to lead transformative cloud initiatives while enjoying competitive daily rates and a commitment to work-life balance.
