Senior Cloud Platform Architect; GCP and Azure

Senior Cloud Platform Architect (GCP and Azure)

Location:

Bristol, Leeds, Halifax, Manchester, Edinburgh — 2 days/week onsite

Duration: 6 months+ Contract Inside IR35

Rate: 500 GBP/Day

We’re looking to recruit a Senior Cloud Platform Architect to be part of our Public Cloud Platform and help achieve our mission to provide compliant and efficient Google Cloud infrastructure, product and Dev Ops capabilities for the Group, driving innovation and enabling customers to adopt Google Cloud rapidly and seamlessly. Your role will be part of a cross‑disciplinary feature team in addition to being a highly experienced member of our wider Lloyds engineering team delivering change.

Your role as a Cloud Platform Architect involves supporting teams with modern Dev Ops solutions, curating scalable GCP cloud products as IaC, defining cloud patterns, and modern ways of cloud engineering. You will learn new skills, technologies and approaches to software development while benefiting from a culture that celebrates diversity and equal opportunity.

• Architect and optimise Cloud Landing Zones for GCP and Azure environments ensuring scalability, security, and compliance.
• Design and implement multi‑cloud platform solutions leveraging GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine) and AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service).
• Define and enforce cloud governance frameworks, including identity, access management, and network security policies.
• Refactor and standardise IaC templates using Terraform / Terraform Cloud for reusable, modular deployments.
• Implement policy‑as‑code guardrails for compliance using Sentinel or OPA.
• Drive Kubernetes cluster architecture, workload orchestration, and service mesh integration (Istio).
• Collaborate with Dev Ops teams to integrate CI/CD pipelines for automated infrastructure and application deployments.
• Optimise cloud resource utilisation and cost through proactive monitoring and architectural improvements.
• Develop automation scripts and workflows using Python for operational efficiency.
• Lead migration of legacy workloads into modern cloud‑native architectures.
• Provide technical leadership and best practices for Cloud Platform Engineering across GCP and Azure ecosystems.

• Proven experience as a Cloud Architect with hands‑on expertise in GCP and Azure.
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes, GKE, and AKS for container orchestration.
• Expertise in Landing Zone design and optimisation for enterprise‑scale deployments.
• Advanced skills in Terraform / Terraform Cloud for IaC and automation.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Git Hub Actions, Harness).
• Proficiency in Python scripting for automation.
• Understanding of policy‑as‑code frameworks (OPA, Sentinel) and cloud governance.
• Certifications:
  
  GCP Professional Cloud Architect, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Kubernetes Certified.
• Good to have:
  Experience with IDE platforms for Cloud Engineering (e.g., Backstage).

• Looking for senior engineering skills as GCP Cloud SMEs who have also contributed as a technical consultant in guiding design, architecture and strategy, bringing thought leadership in driving innovation and best practices.
• Good communicator, collaborator and leader with experience working with multiple organisational stakeholders.

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