Cloud Architect

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Oversee the architecture of both new and existing Microsoft Azure initiatives

• Suggest solutions and evaluate designs to ensure consistent foundations that align with organizational needs and business goals

• Assess infrastructure and applications to pinpoint optimization opportunities, cost-saving strategies, and pathways for cloud migration

• Manage Azure costs, including understanding cost drivers, budgets, alerts, Azure Advisor assessments, and reservation/commitment strategies

• Create and sustain reusable project templates and Infrastructure as Code modules

• Detect and address architecture gaps, risks, and obstacles through ongoing tenant evaluations

• Design, implement, and uphold cloud governance frameworks, security protocols, and compliance standards

• Work in collaboration with DevOps engineers, security experts, business stakeholders, project teams, and IT Operations

• Convert business requirements into solution architectures and revise cloud standards as necessary

• Establish and uphold standards for tagging, naming, and subscription structures

• Collaborate with IT Security and workload teams to ensure and maintain demonstrable compliance with SOC 2, ISO 27001, and HIPAA

• Assess and recommend cloud technologies, tools, and services, including containerization, orchestration, and infrastructure-as-code solutions

• Supervise cloud infrastructure deployments ensuring scalability, reliability, and disaster recovery

• Set best practices for monitoring, performance optimization, and automated provisioning

• Offer technical guidance and mentorship on cloud architecture patterns and cloud-native application design

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive background in IT infrastructure, systems engineering, or cloud architecture

• Significant practical experience in designing and managing Azure environments

• Proven experience in a cloud architecture or senior technical position

• In-depth, hands-on expertise in Azure architecture: landing zones, management groups, networking, identity, storage, compute, and security

• Demonstrated ability to create and build reusable deployment templates utilizing Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Bicep, Terraform, ARM)

• Strong comprehension of Azure cost management, including cost drivers, budgets and alerts, reservations/savings plans, and Azure Advisor

• Experience in defining and enforcing cloud governance frameworks: Azure Policy, management groups, RBAC, and tagging/naming standards

• Proven experience maintaining compliance with SOC 2, ISO 27001, or HIPAA, including control implementation and audit evidence

• Capacity to translate architectural designs into operational requirements and collaborate with IT Operations on support models

• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities

• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills

• Familiarity with GxP and GAMP5 frameworks

• Experience in supporting regulated (validated) cloud systems

• Preferred: experience with multi-cloud strategies and hybrid cloud architectures

• Preferred: knowledge of Kubernetes and container orchestration platforms

• Preferred: understanding of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices

• Preferred: experience with cloud cost optimization and FinOps principles

• Preferred: experience with serverless architectures and microservices design patterns

• Preferred: background in enterprise application migration and modernization initiatives

🏝️ Benefits

• Option for remote work

• Engaging and collaborative team environment

• Opportunity to contribute to providing safe and effective pharmaceutical treatments to patients

• Diverse and inclusive workplace where every voice is valued

• Opportunities for career advancement

• Access to mentorship and technical guidance