GCP Cloud Architect

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The Role:

GCP Cloud Platform Architect

Location:

Bristol, Leeds, Halifax, Manchester, Edinburgh, UK

Position Type:
Contract Inside IR35

Remote work option Available:
Hybrid (2 Days onsite in a week)

Job Description:

We're looking to recruit Senior Cloud Platform Architect to be part of our Public Cloud Platform and help achieve our mission to provide compliant and efficient Google Cloud Infra, product and Dev Ops capabilities for the Group and drive innovation to enable customers to have rapid and seamless Google Cloud Adoption and build their business journeys more scalable, resilient and efficient .

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, modern ways of Cloud Engineering. You'll learn new skills, technologies and approaches to software development as well as benefiting from a culture that celebrates diversity, equal opportunity.

• Architect and optimize 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 standardize Infrastructure as Code (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.
• Optimize cloud resource utilization 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.

Essential skills/knowledge/experience:

• 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 optimization 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).

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