Senior Cloud Platform Architect - Contract - Outside IR35

Summary: The Senior Cloud Platform Architect role focuses on defining and scaling a cloud-native platform environment, primarily on AWS. This position requires a strong architectural background, emphasizing infrastructure design, deployment, and operations. Candidates should have experience in hyperscaler cloud environments, with SAP exposure being a bonus. The role involves collaboration with engineering teams to ensure effective implementation of architectural designs.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define end-to-end cloud platform architecture on AWS
• Design and govern Infrastructure-as-Code approaches (Terraform, Helm)
• Architect Kubernetes-based environments and container deployment strategies
• Embed Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles across the platform
• Define best practices for:
  • Deployment workflows (eg blue/green deployments)
  • Monitoring, alerting, and reliability
  • Scalable and resilient infrastructure
• Translate high-level business and technical requirements into architectural designs
• Work closely with platform engineering teams responsible for execution
• Provide architectural governance and guide engineering teams on implementation

Key Skills:

• Proven experience as a Cloud/Platform Architect in AWS environments
• Strong understanding of:
  • Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform essential)
  • Kubernetes and container orchestration
  • Helm and deployment tooling
• Experience with platform engineering and cloud-native architecture patterns
• Strong knowledge of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) concepts
• Ability to design end-to-end architecture life cycle:
  • From initial request - design - deployment - monitoring - optimisation
• Comfortable operating at both strategic (architecture) and light hands-on level

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: undetermined

Country: England

Working Arrangements: undetermined

IR35 Status: outside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT

Detailed Description From Employer:

Senior Cloud Platform Architect - Contract - Outside IR/35

Role Overview

We are looking for a Senior Cloud Platform Architect to help define and scale a cloud-native platform environment. The role sits at the architectural level, shaping how infrastructure and applications are designed, deployed, and operated across AWS.

This is not an SAP/BTP-first role - candidates should come from a hyperscaler cloud background, with SAP exposure considered a bonus.

Key Responsibilities

• Define end-to-end cloud platform architecture on AWS
• Design and govern Infrastructure-as-Code approaches (Terraform, Helm)
• Architect Kubernetes-based environments and container deployment strategies
• Embed Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles across the platform
• Define best practices for:
  • Deployment workflows (eg blue/green deployments)
  • Monitoring, alerting, and reliability
  • Scalable and resilient infrastructure
• Translate high-level business and technical requirements into architectural designs
• Work closely with platform engineering teams responsible for execution
• Provide architectural governance and guide engineering teams on implementation

Key Requirements

• Proven experience as a Cloud/Platform Architect in AWS environments
• Strong understanding of:
  • Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform essential)
  • Kubernetes and container orchestration
  • Helm and deployment tooling
• Experience with platform engineering and cloud-native architecture patterns
• Strong knowledge of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) concepts
• Ability to design end-to-end architecture life cycle:
  • From initial request - design - deployment - monitoring - optimisation
• Comfortable operating at both strategic (architecture) and light hands-on level

Nice to Have

• Exposure to SAP landscapes or SAP BTP
• Experience working in SaaS or product-led environments
• Understanding of "opinionated platforms" (eg abstractions over hyperscalers like BTP)