Principal Cloud Architect (AWS)

at  Cloudscaler

PRINCIPAL CLOUD ARCHITECT (AWS) - DEFENCE/SC CLEARED

Location: We are based in Aldgate, London. Our customers are based across the UK. Circa 2 days per week onsite in London is required, or less frequently for customers outside London.
Salary: £130,000 – £145,000

DEFENCE/SC CLEARANCE REQUIREMENTS:

Cloudscaler work with highly-secure private defence and government customers on mission-critical programmes of work. This means that SC clearance is required. Upon joining Cloudscaler we will undertake SC clearance checks so you must be eligible to pass SC clearance. In future, DV clearance is likely to be required, so the ability/willingness to pass DV clearance is advantageous but not essential.

ABOUT US

We are experts in AWS landing zones, cloud risk mitigation and cloud operating models; thought leaders working with public and private sector enterprise organisations to help them unlock the true value of cloud.

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

We are looking for experienced Cloud Architects who can define cloud and platform strategy, enterprise-wide cloud operating models and cloud control frameworks, and set the strategic operational direction and governance.
We are thought leaders, so our Architects need to be opinionated about cloud and platform best practice, and influence industry best practices. Strong stakeholder management is essential, with the ability to speak credibly to business CXO leaders as well as hands-on technical teams.

You will be working closely with our customers’ key stakeholders, designing and providing the technical governance over the delivery of significant workloads on the cloud. You could be working with customers to define and deliver any of the following:

• Cloud and platform strategy and architecture
• Enterprise-wide cloud operating models and setting the strategic operational direction and governance
• Enterprise-wide cloud control frameworks and integrating governance
• Strategic direction for the client’s landing zones, platforms, and workload migration across their organisation
• Strategic direction for workload migration and modernisation across the client organisation
• Well Architected principles and practices across the client organisation
• Enterprise-wide cloud cost optimisation strategy, promoting a cost-conscious culture
• Strategic security direction and organisation-wide security practices
• Identity and access management direction, ensuring enterprise-wide alignment and compliance
• Enterprise-wide cloud networking strategy, ensuring alignment with business and technical requirements
• Enterprise-wide strategies for AI in cloud provisioning, drives adoption of AI-enhanced cloud infrastructure best practices, influences industry trends in AI for cloud environments