Cloud Platform Architect (68020)
Hitachi, Ltd.2 months ago
London, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, implementation, and operational excellence of the organization’s cloud platform across private and public clouds.
- Architect and implement IaC-based provisioning using Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, or Bicep across multi-cloud and private cloud environments.
- Automate infrastructure lifecycle management, including provisioning, patching, updates, scaling, and decommissioning.
- Build policy-as-code governance guardrails to enforce security, cost, and compliance standards.
- Implement FinOps practices such as rightsizing, reserved instance management, waste detection, and cost allocation tagging.
- Lead CI/CD pipeline engineering for infrastructure deployments with automated testing, security scanning, and approval gates.
- Design self-service infrastructure portals for compliant environment provisioning.
- Mentor and coach two Cloud Platform Engineers, establish coding standards, conduct architecture reviews, and promote knowledge sharing.
- Collaborate with SRE and Security teams to embed reliability, observability, and compliance into the platform.
- Create architectural decision records, runbooks, and platform documentation.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in cloud or infrastructure engineering, including 3+ years in a senior or lead capacity.
- Proven experience delivering large-scale infrastructure-as-code transformations and cloud migration programs.
- Expert-level IaC proficiency with Terraform preferred, or CloudFormation, Pulumi, or Bicep.
- Deep experience with at least two major cloud platforms, including AWS, Azure, GCP, or VMware private cloud.
- Strong experience with Kubernetes, container orchestration, and platform services.
- Configuration management experience with Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or SaltStack.
- Experience with Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or Azure DevOps for infrastructure pipelines.
- Experience with policy-as-code frameworks such as OPA/Rego, HashiCorp Sentinel, Azure Policy, or AWS Config Rules.
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools including Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, CloudWatch, or Dynatrace.
- Knowledge of VPC/VNet design, load balancers, DNS, CDN, and hybrid connectivity.
- Strong leadership, mentoring, stakeholder management, communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Relevant certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect Professional, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, CKA/CKAD, or Terraform Associate/Professional are preferred.
- Experience with FinOps frameworks, cloud cost optimization, platform engineering product management, internal developer platforms, GitOps workflows, or service mesh is desirable.
Benefits
- Industry-leading benefits, support, and services for holistic health and wellbeing.
- Flexible working arrangements, depending on role and location.
- A culture offering belonging, autonomy, freedom, ownership, and knowledge sharing.
- Equal opportunity employment and reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process.
Tech Stack
AnsibleAWSAzureChefDatadogGitHub ActionsGitLab CI/CDGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaIstioJenkinsKubernetesPrometheusPuppetTerraform
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