Summary: The Cloud Solutions Architect (Azure) role involves leading the design and implementation of cloud solutions tailored to meet business needs, particularly within the financial services sector. The position requires collaboration with various teams to ensure alignment with strategic goals and the adoption of cloud-native technologies. The role is primarily on-site in London for three days a week and is expected to last for 12 months. The position is classified as inside IR35, indicating that it falls under specific tax regulations for contractors.

Key Responsibilities:

• Act as an incubator for modernization of application, technical and security services through adoption of cloud-native solutions.
• Partner with Enterprise Architecture to implement a highly scalable, automated, and available cloud platform, aligned with the future state cloud-first strategy and architecture.
• Drive adoption and migrations from traditional technology platforms to public cloud services.
• Create and implement self-service DevOps, support, maintenance and governance practices and processes for the Cloud Platform.
• Recommend tools and methodologies to support Cloud Platform operations and implement SRE practices and team as part of the Digital transformation process.
• Partner with Development teams, CyberSecurity, Support and Enterprise Architecture teams to deliver and maintain a cloud platform with associated DevOps practices.
• Break large complex systems into manageable subsystems and components, each of which can be managed by individuals or teams in a scalable manner.
• Create the capabilities required to utilize automation practices for initializing, provisioning and optimizing systems, and facilitate infrastructure orchestration - embracing self-service and autonomy.
• Convert the InfraOps practices into DevOps practices, building CI/CD pipelines and automation to deliver and deploy applications to production.
• Ensure systems and application have efficient and actionable monitoring with SLO aligned with business goals.
• Requirement gathering, technical writing and documentation.

Key Skills:

• Expert knowledge of Microsoft Azure products and capabilities.
• Proven experience with all aspects of Cloud service models and application delivery such as PaaS, Serverless and Containerization infrastructure.
• Experience in building fault-tolerant, scalable, and secure systems.
• Proven experience DevOps teams in a mission critical environment.
• Working experience in Agile methodologies and have actively managed Scrums.
• Experience in storage.
• Experience with Ansible, IAC, Terraform, DevOps.
• Previously worked with CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code management and governance.
• Passionate about innovation and love leading technological change.
• Passionate in creating a collaborative, caring and safe environment for all teammates to succeed.

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: City of London

Country: UK

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: inside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT