Job Title: Cloud Platform Architect
Location: London 3/4x a week
Salary/Rate: £600/700 Daily
Start Date: In the next week
Job Type: Initial 6 month contract Inside IR35
Company Introduction:
We have an exciting opportunity now available with one of our sector-leading consultancy clients! They are currently looking for a cloud Platform Architect to join their team for an initial six-month contract.
You'll be brought in too lead the design, build, and operational excellence of the organisation’s cloud platform across private and public cloud environments. Own the end-to-end IaC-based provisioning, configuration management, patch orchestration, and cloud governance framework. Drive the transformation from manual infrastructure operations to a fully automated, self-service, policy-governed cloud platform that delivers speed, security, cost efficiency, and reliability.
Mandatory Skills:
Plat Engineering for on-premises &cloud, IaC, CI/CD pipeline & tools, security, network, landing zones, observability, self-servicing, DB automation
Key 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 (OPA, Sentinel, Azure Policy) 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 with SRE and Security teams to embed reliability, observability, and compliance into the platform from the ground up
• Produce architectural decision records (ADRs), runbooks, and platform documentation for operational excellence