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Lead Azure Cloud Architect - SC Clearance

IBM, City of Westminster

Lead Azure Cloud Architect - SC Clearance

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IBM, City of Westminster

  • Full time
  • Permanent
  • Remote working

Posted 4 days ago, 26 Sep | Get your application in now to be included in the first week's applications.

Closing date: Closing date not specified

Job ref: 3e5f06dc691b4f209289ba9c75d0e9f0

Location ref: City of Westminster

Full Job Description

  • Participating in various customer projects, from new infrastructure builds and migrations to audits and big data
  • Implementing configuration management infrastructure
  • Coaching and leading the small team of architects and engineers, leading delivery engagements, and supporting presales and sales architecture
  • People line management such as appraisals, holiday approval, allocating work resources, day to day people management
  • You will become a trusted advisor for high-profile enterprise businesses and jointly manage the customer relationship and roadmap with the wider Sales team
  • You'll have a selection of different 'hats' to put on and have the luxury of following customer projects from start to release

    Required technical and professional expertise
  • Hands-on experience with Cloud Architecture Design and/or Cloud Architectural Patterns for Development
  • Experience leading other Cloud Architects and leading delivery engagements
  • Advanced knowledge of Azure or AWS (multiple cloud providers is a plus)
  • Solid engineering/technical background/hands-on experience with conceptualizing, strategizing, and architecting cloud solutions.
  • Windows and/or Linux sys op background
  • Previous experience in the design and delivery of systems based on IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS offerings, as well as exposure to different architecture models
  • DevOps skills for leading the team and consulting the customer
  • Experience with building CI/CD pipelines
  • Knowledge of security, network, virtualization, load balancer, storage, and database
  • Container technologies experience (e.g. Kubernetes, OpenShift)
  • Hands-on experience with IaaC for managing the cloud
  • Coding/scripting skills (Bash, Python, Powershell, or similar)
  • Active customer consultant and pre-sales attitude are a must
  • Fluent communication skills in English
    • All applicants must have the right to work in the UK and must meet the criteria & be willing to go through Security Clearance.

    At IBM Consulting UK FutureNow, you'll build a career at the forefront of hybrid cloud and AI, working with leading clients across the public and private sectors. You'll collaborate with top industry professionals, gain hands on experience with cutting edge technologies, and deliver solutions that create real business impact. From day one, you'll work on meaningful, high profile programmes that stretch your skills and accelerate your growth. We invest heavily in you-supporting continuous learning, in demand skills development, and long term career progression. You'll thrive in a flexible, inclusive environment that values curiosity, encourages reinvention, and recognises what makes you unique.

    Tools and policies to support your work-life balance from flexible working approaches, sabbatical programs, paid paternity leave, maternity leave and an innovative maternity returners scheme More traditional benefits, such as 25 days holiday (in addition to public holidays), private medical, dental & optical cover, online shopping discounts, an Employee Assistance Program, life assurance and a group pension plan through salary sacrifice.

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https://www.jobs24.co.uk/job/lead-azure-cloud-architect-sc-clearance-127468724

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