Senior Architect Private Cloud

Job Title: Senior Architect Private Cloud
Location: Sheffield (Hybrid) 2 days a week in the office
Day rate: £600 per day inside IR35
Start Date: 7th September

We're working on an exciting contract opportunity for a Senior Architect Private Cloud to join a major global financial organisation, leading the design and evolution of a private cloud platform at significant scale in Sheffield.

• Define and drive Private Cloud architecture aligned with Client Cloud Strategy
• Provide hands on technical leadership across virtualization containers Kubernetes, Kafka and microservices platforms
• Review architecture designs and ensure solutions are secure scalable resilient and cost effective
• Establish engineering standards reference architectures reusable patterns and platform guardrails
• Lead the design and evolution of private cloud platform components including compute storage networking orchestration and platform services
• Provide technical leadership for Kafka and Event Driven Architecture adoption
• Establish Git Ops CICD automation and configuration management standards

• Proven experience as a Senior Architect Lead Engineer Staff Engineer Platform Architect or equivalent
• Strong Private Cloud and Platform Engineering background
• Deep expertise in at least two of the following
• VMware or Virtualization Technologies
• Kubernetes and Container Platforms
• Kafka Event Streaming Platforms