Cloud Platforms Architect

1 month ago

Newbury, United Kingdom VODAFONE LIMITED Full time
What you'll do

The Cloud Platforms Architect plays a pivotal role within the Platforms Technology team, driving the successful implementation of our cloud strategy and associated reference architectures. This role focuses on creating comprehensive playbooks and blueprints, enabling solution designers and operational teams to seamlessly adopt and manage cutting-edge technologies. As a technical leader, the Cloud Platforms Architect is instrumental in supporting our strategic initiatives on cloud platforms, ensuring alignment between the Architecture and Strategy function and the rest of the organisation. By doing so, they enable Vodafone Technology to effectively realise the defined target state architecture, ensuring a seamless transition to a highly optimized and innovative cloud-based infrastructure.

This role will help accelerate cloud adoption through simplifying the ability for solution owners to incorporate the technology into their designs while also allowing them to explain the strategic benefits of doing so.

The Cloud Platforms Architect is a senior technical subject matter expert and design authority for Cloud services, tooling and platforms. They will peer with Product, Platform, Engineering and Infrastructure teams and create a continuous feedback process that enables the target architecture to adjust and maintain its desired state or achieve new required goals.

Who you are

Key accountabilities and decision ownership:

  • Work with engineering teams to define and develop a library of deployable and documented cloud design patterns, blueprints and templates, based on the Vodafone application portfolio, as a basis for the repeated deployment of services to the cloud
  • Development of innovative, effective cloud platform components ensuring consistency of approach between similar vendor technologies
  • Be a trusted advisor to the wider organization for cloud end-to-end architecture, including Azure, AWS, GCP and future providers, networking, provisioning, and management
  • Advocate the cloud architecture vision, including internal and external platforms, tools, and systems across stakeholder and consumer communities alongside the facilitation and assurance of technical decisions - in line with our platforms & cloud strategy


Core competencies, knowledge and experience:

  • Proven experience in communicating complex technical strategy up to C-Level leadership
  • Deep knowledge of cloud architecture and implementation features (OS, multi-tenancy, virtualization, orchestration, elastic scalability). Experience with Azure is essential with AWS, GCP and Hybrid implementations also preferred.
  • Experience in FinOps concepts and an ability to communicate economic benefits of cloud which is essential for adoption.
  • Ability to take ownership of problems, ask relevant questions, be proactive, take initiative, and drive for improvements and changes in approach
  • Ability for driving decisions collaboratively, resolving conflicts and ensuring follow through with exceptional verbal and written communication skills.


Must have technical / professional qualifications:

  • Azure certification (AZ-400 or AZ-305 preferred) and strong on the job experience.
  • CI/CD & DevOps practices, configuring tools "as-code";
  • Infrastructure and Platform components (network, load balancers, VMs, Kubernetes) and Microservice architectures;
  • Cloud Security, IAM, Cloud Authentication;
  • SAFe Agile methods including use of associated collaboration tools (Jira, Confluence, ADO etc)
  • Strong interest in Generative AI adoption


Not a perfect fit?

Worried that you don't meet all the desired criteria exactly? At Vodafone we are passionate about Inclusion for All and creating a workplace where everyone can thrive, whatever their personal or professional background. If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align exactly with every part of the job description, we encourage you to apply as you may be the right candidate for this role or another role, and our recruitment team can help you see how your skills fit in.

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/adoption leave: 52 weeks out of which the first 13 weeks are fully paid followed by 26 weeks of half pay and 6 months - working 4 days, getting paid 5
  • Paternity leave: 16 weeks fully paid
  • 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

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Vodafone is committed to attracting, developing and retaining the very best people by offering a motivating and inclusive workplace in which talent is truly recognised and rewarded. We are committed to promoting Inclusion for All with the belief that diversity plays an important role in the success of our business. We actively encourage everyone to consider becoming a part of our journey.

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