Senior Cloud Architect

• Role: Cloud Infrastructure Architect
• Location: HYBRID ( London /Newbury)
• Resourcing Lead : Raj Galagali

What you’ll do

Key Responsibilities

• Cloud Infrastructure Expertise: Provide expert knowledge to ensure successful cloud adoption by translating cloud strategy into efficient, resilient, and secure implementations.

• Thought Leadership: Lead in cloud engineering areas, focusing on Compute and Data, offering innovative solutions and best practices.

• Mentorship & Architecture Support: Mentor architects on new cloud solutions by analyzing requirements, supporting design, development, testing, and ensuring readiness for ongoing support.

• Cloud Migration: Lead cloud migration projects by analyzing requirements, identifying migration techniques, developing artifacts, and ensuring smooth execution and ongoing support.

• Infrastructure Automation: Design, build, and enhance cloud infrastructure solutions, leveraging automation strategies like IaC, policy-as-code, CI/CD, and DevOps methodologies.

• Innovation & Prototyping: Research and prototype new tools to improve cloud platforms, reduce manual tasks, and mentor others in automation best practices.

• Reliability & Scalability: Collaborate with product and SRE teams to ensure cloud infrastructures are reliable, scalable, and meet non-functional requirements such as data protection, disaster recovery, and high availability.

• IaaS and PaaS Subject Matter Expertise: Respond to escalated incidents, provide support, and build reusable artifacts for cloud deployments.

• Community Engagement & Learning: Elevate cloud engineering competencies through active participation in communities of practice, hackathons, and mentoring, while fostering continuous learning and improvement.

• Planning & Optimization: Engage in activities to optimize capacity, reliability, cost, and performance engineering across cloud environments.

• Security Collaboration: Work closely with security teams to design, implement, and test security controls, ensuring alignment with best practices.

• Logging & Monitoring: Design and implement comprehensive logging, monitoring, and observability solutions to support cloud operations.

• Infrastructure Integration: Optimize integration across single cloud, multicloud, and hybrid environments, tailoring solutions based on specific use cases.

• Cloud Communication: Clearly convey the advantages and disadvantages of cloud services to stakeholders with varying levels of experience, offering alternative solutions when cloud is not the best fit.

• Vendor & Supplier Management: Collaborate with third-party suppliers and lead engagements with vendor technical support when needed.

• Problem Management: Lead post-incident reviews, offering technical insights, documented findings, and recommendations for root cause analysis.

• Resilience & Disaster Recovery: Support resilience efforts through disaster recovery planning, performance testing, and tabletop exercises to ensure business continuity.

Who you are

Key Skills and Experience

• Cloud Architecture & Collaboration: Support teams on cloud best practices, working with developers and SREs to plan, design, and operationalize cloud workloads.

• Infrastructure Support & Cloud Migration: Experience in infrastructure support and cloud migration projects, ensuring smooth execution and security.

• DevOps & Automation: Proficiency in DevOps, using tools like Ansible, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines for automation, infrastructure-as-code, and workflow optimization.

• Agile Practices: Experience in Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban), proposing standards, and continuous improvement.

• Technical Expertise: Proficiency in AWS, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, VMware, Python, Windows/Linux, databases, and cloud networking/security.

• Resilience & Cost Optimization: Implement highly available systems, optimize resources, and analyze cloud spending.

• Communication & Mentorship: Strong communication, mentoring, and knowledge-sharing skills, with a continuous learning mindset.

• Compliance & Governance: Collaborate on governance controls, ensuring alignment with organizational policies and standards.

What's in it for you

• Discretionary yearly bonus: 10%
• Annual leave: 28 days + bank holidays + the opportunity to buy/sell/carry over 5 days/year
• Charity days: 5 days/year
• Maternity leave: 52 weeks out of which 39 weeks are fully paid + 13 weeks half pay and 6 months - working 4 days, getting paid 5
• Private pension: You can contribute up to 5% of your basic pay with 2:1 matching from Vodafone up to 10%.
• Access to: private medical, private dental, free health assessments, share save scheme
• Additional discounts: Vodafone retail, gym, cinema, cycle to work, season ticket loan

Who we are

You may have already heard of Vodafone - We're a leading Telecommunications company in Europe and Africa. But what you might not know is that we are continuously investing in new technologies to improve the lives of millions of customers, businesses and people around the world, creating a better future for everyone.

As part of our global family, whether that's Vodafone, Vodacom or _VOIS, you'll feel a sense of pride and purpose as you contribute to our culture of innovation. We pursue equality of opportunity and inclusion for all candidates through our employment policies and practices. We recognise and celebrate the importance of diversity and inclusivity in our workspace and we do not tolerate any form of discrimination especially related to but not limited to race, colour, age, veteran status, gender identification, sexual orientation, pregnancy, ethnicity, disability, religion, political affiliation, trade union membership, nationality, indigenous status, medical condition, HIV status, social origin, cultural background, social, or marital status.

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