Senior Cloud Architect
Role Description & Technical Scope
As a recruitment company, DCG understands that every business is powered by experienced professionals. Our management style and partnership approach enable us to meet your needs and provide continuous support. Due to our ongoing growth and the large number of recruitment projects we undertake for our partners, we are currently looking for:
Responsibilities:
- Design scalable, resilient and cost-efficient cloud and hybrid architectures
- Define architecture for complex cross-cloud and on-premises environments
- Support and guide large-scale cloud migration and modernization initiatives
- Develop architecture patterns, standards and technical guidelines for cloud platforms
- Ensure solutions meet requirements related to security, availability, scalability, resilience and cost optimization
- Work closely with engineering, infrastructure, security and architecture teams
- Provide architectural guidance throughout the solution lifecycle, from design through implementation
- Support the adoption of Infrastructure as Code, automation, DevOps and GitOps practices
Requirements:
- Minimum 5 years of professional experience in cloud architecture, including work as a Cloud Architect / Enterprise Cloud Architect in large-scale enterprise environments
- Proven experience designing hybrid architectures combining on-premises infrastructure and at least two cloud providers
- Expert-level knowledge of the architecture and services of at least one major cloud platform: Azure, GCP or AWS
- Strong understanding of cloud networking, IAM, security, governance, resilience, disaster recovery and FinOps
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code, particularly Terraform and/or cloud-native IaC solutions
- Experience designing highly available, resilient and disaster recovery architectures
- Understanding of DevOps, CI/CD, GitOps, cloud operations and SRE principles
- Experience supporting large-scale cloud migration and modernization programs
- Experience within the financial sector or another highly regulated enterprise environment would be highly advantageous
- Fluency in English (both written and spoken)
Nice to have:
- Experience designing advanced cloud-based AI platforms using solutions such as GPT, Claude or Gemini to support complex business processes and use cases
Offer:
- Private medical care
- Co-financing for the sports card
- Constant support of dedicated consultant
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Key Details
- Date Posted: 23 Oct 2026
- Location: United Kingdom
- Employment: Permanent
- Workplace: Hybrid
- Domain: General
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