Senior Cloud Architect (GCP)
Searchstone Ltd
Nottingham, United Kingdom
4 days ago
Role details
Contract type
Permanent contract Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours) Working hours
Regular working hours Languages
English Experience level
SeniorJob location
Nottingham, United Kingdom
Tech stack
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Cloud Computing
DevOps
Github
Performance Tuning
Reliability Engineering
Zero Trust Network Access
Datadog
Autoscaling
Grafana
Kubernetes
Infrastructure Automation Frameworks
Nintex
Terraform
Microservices
Job description
- Architect and deploy cloud-native infrastructure (GCP preferred)
- Own Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform / CDK) and define reusable "golden path" templates
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD)
- Design for auto-scaling, resilience, and failure testing (chaos engineering)
- Manage container orchestration (Kubernetes / GKE / EKS)
- Implement observability, monitoring, and performance tuning
Requirements
- Strong experience with AWS or GCP at production scale (multi-AZ, auto-scaling systems)
- Deep expertise in Terraform (or similar IaC tools)
- Hands-on with Kubernetes / containerised microservices
- Experience building CI/CD pipelines and observability stacks (e.g. Datadog, Grafana)
Nice to have: N8N or workflow tooling, zero-trust security, regulated environments (FinTech / PropTech)
