SENIOR CLOUD ARCHITECT

The role of  Senior Cloud Architect:

• Lead technical discovery with clients, translating business outcomes into secure, scalable cloud and hybrid architectures.
• Support pre-sales and bid activities, shaping solution options, estimates and technical approaches.
• Engage in defining scope and approach, documenting key risks, assumptions and dependencies, and aligning them with stakeholders.
• Define target architectures, reference patterns and guardrails (including landing zone principles) to enable consistent, repeatable delivery.
• Design security-by-design solutions, covering IAM, key/secrets management, network segmentation, logging/monitoring and policy enforcement.
• Architect reliable platforms and workloads with appropriate resilience, backup, disaster recovery and operational runbooks (RTO/RPO aligned).
• Enable delivery teams through Infrastructure as Code standards, automated pipelines, and repeatable build-and-release practices.
• Provide architecture assurance: review designs, manage technical risks, and ensure solutions remain aligned to scope, cost and security requirements.
• Support cloud financial management (FinOps): cost models, tagging/chargeback principles, and optimisation opportunities.
• Mentor engineers and consultants, contributing to knowledge sharing, standards and continuous improvement.

What we are looking for:

• Proven track record designing and delivering cloud and hybrid architectures in a consultancy or multi-client environment.
• Strong understanding of networking, connectivity and segmentation patterns, including secure ingress/egress and private connectivity concepts.
• Strong security foundations: identity and access management, least privilege, encryption, key/secrets management, vulnerability management, and audit/monitoring.
• Experience designing resilient multi-region or multi-site architectures, with clear disaster recovery strategies and defined RTO/RPO.
• Automation-first mindset with Infrastructure as Code, configuration management and CI/CD pipeline practices.
• Excellent communication skills, able to present options and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, and to produce high-quality architecture documentation (HLD/LLD and decision records).

Technologies

• Public cloud and hybrid platforms; compute (virtual machines, autoscaling, containers/Kubernetes).
• Networking (segmentation, DNS, load balancing, private connectivity).
• Identity and security (IAM, MFA, key/secrets management, encryption, policy enforcement).
• Data and storage (object/block/file storage, backup/archiving, replication).
• Resilience (multi-region design, disaster recovery)
• Automation (Infrastructure as Code, configuration management, pipelines, scripting).
• Observability (logging, metrics, tracing, SIEM integration).

Key outcomes/measures of success

• Clear target architecture and roadmap agreed with stakeholders, including decisions and trade-offs captured.
• Secure cloud/hybrid foundations established (guardrails, identity, networking, logging/monitoring) that teams can reuse.
• Workloads delivered/migrated successfully with measurable improvements in resilience, operability and cost transparency.
• Delivery teams enabled through patterns, automation and mentoring, reducing rework and increasing consistency.

Typical deliverables

• Architecture diagrams and narrative (HLD) with documented assumptions, dependencies and risks.
• Detailed designs (LLD), build standards, patterns and decision records.
• Security design artefacts (IAM model, network segmentation, logging/monitoring approach) aligned to client governance.
• Infrastructure as Code modules/blueprints and deployment pipelines aligned to delivery standards.
• Operational handover pack: runbooks, monitoring/alerting, backup/DR procedures and support model.

Why Quorum?

Quorum is an Employee Owned company providing IT managed services, projects, and professional services to a diverse range of clients from enterprise scale clients to small/medium business within both the private and public sectors.

We offer highly competitive salaries with an excellent benefits package including contributory Pension, Private Health Care, the ability to buy and sell holidays, as well as paying for your home broadband, excellent training and development opportunities with the ability to earn annual bonus on Microsoft Accreditations, and an annual personal technical budget to ensure you stay up to date with the latest technologies.

Still not convinced? We encourage personal development and have a highly collaborative working culture with high levels of employee retention. We have won awards for our Family Friendly Working and pride ourselves on our ability to manage employees individual needs to make work-life fit around personal life. We believe our culture is our strength and want to work with likeminded individuals who love technology as much as we do.

If you enjoy solving complex technical challenges and delivering outcomes for clients, please apply today.