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# Lead Azure Cloud Architect - SC Clearance

- **Company:** IBM
- **Location:** Leicester, UK (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Microsoft Windows, Amazon Web Services, Architectural Patterns, Microsoft Azure, Bash Shell, Big Data, Software as a Service, Cloud Computing, Cloud Engineering, Configuration Management, Databases, Linux, DevOps, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Python (Programming Language), OpenShift, Platform as a Service (PAAS), Windows PowerShell, Cloud Services, Virtualization Technology, Scripting, Load Balancing, SC Clearance, Containerization, Kubernetes
- **Published:** August 5, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/4DFC70CB2C3C481D90A078553B6D95CB/job/

## About the Role

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.

## 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


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