Cloud Infrastructure Architect - Manager

Position Overview :

The Cloud Infrastructure Architect is responsible for designing, governing, and assuring end-to-end infrastructure architectures spanning on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments. The role focuses on creating secure, resilient, scalable, and cost optimised platforms that enable modern applications, data platforms, and integration workloads.

Skills, Experience and Competencies

Core Skills and Expertise :

• Deep knowledge of Azure, AWS, and GCP infrastructure services.
• AI-ready infrastructure foundations designing for scalable compute (including accelerators where required), high-throughput networking, secure data access, and platform services to support modern analytics and AI workloads.
• Hybrid networking and connectivity patterns (connectivity, routing, segmentation, firewalls, and load balancing).
• Identity, security, and access integration across on-premises and cloud.
• Landing zones and platform foundations (accounts/subscriptions, environments, zoning, and policy).
• High availability, disaster recovery (DR), and business continuity design.
• Cost optimisation and operational governance (FinOps).

Experience :

• 12–18+ years of overall information technology (IT) experience.
• 8–12+ years in infrastructure, cloud, or hybrid architecture roles.
• Experience designing infrastructure for AI use cases, including machine learning (ML) platforms, workload placement considerations, data access patterns, and controls to support safe and reliable operation.
• Strong experience in consulting or systems integration organisations.
• Proven track record designing on-premises and cloud hybrid platforms, including large-scale enterprise and regulated environments.
• Experience of designing and implementing Recovery Time and Recovery Point objectives.