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# Cloud & Infrastructure Platform Consultant

- **Company:** Sword Group
- **Location:** Edinburgh, UK
- **Contract:** Contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Engineering, Private Cloud Environment, Vmware
- **Published:** May 22, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.co.uk/jobad/gb6ab21cbb8d4041e139439a3afa6389b5

## About the Role

* Strong experience designing and delivering platforms across private cloud, public cloud, and physical infrastructure technologies such as Azure, AWS, VMware or equivalent.

 * Broad infrastructure knowledge spanning compute, storage, hosting, virtualisation, and core platform services.

 * Experience in highly regulated sectors such as financial services, insurance, or professional services, with a clear understanding of compliance, risk, and security considerations.

 * Experience supporting mergers and acquisitions or large-scale integration programmes. Comfortable dealing with fragmented or inherited technology estates.

 * Proven ability to operate at both a deep technical level and with senior stakeholders. Able to influence decisions and provide clear direction.

 * Experience defining governance frameworks across cloud and infrastructure environments, including cost control, operational standards, and security guardrails.

 * Strong consultative approach. Able to challenge stakeholders constructively and shape outcomes rather than simply deliver requirements.

 * Commercial awareness. Understand how technical decisions impact cost, risk, and integration timelines.

 * Comfortable working in ambiguity. Able to make progress in evolving environments where not everything is defined upfront.

## Description

To support significant M&A and Integration projects across a range of domain sectors, this ongoing contract opportunity will operate across private cloud, public cloud, and physical infrastructure environments. A technical leadership role with a strong consultative dimension, you will work directly with senior stakeholders to deliver best in-class technology outcomes.

 * Lead the strategy, design, and delivery of platforms and infrastructure across private cloud, public cloud, physical infrastructure, and hybrid environments.

 * Drive platform and infrastructure integration across acquisitions. Standardise estates, reduce complexity, and accelerate onboarding of new businesses.

 * Define guardrails covering security, compliance, cost management, and operational resilience within regulated environments.

 * Act as the technical authority across cloud architecture, core infrastructure, automation, and platform services. Set direction and ensure consistency across delivery teams.

 * Lead the assessment, integration, and rationalisation of inherited infrastructure environments, including compute, storage, hosting, and virtualisation platforms.

 * Engage stakeholders across business and technology functions. Translate commercial and operational goals into structured integration roadmaps.

 * Establish repeatable integration patterns that enable future acquisitions to be onboarded with speed and control.

 * Build and lead platform and infrastructure capability across internal teams and delivery partners.

 * Deliver measurable outcomes, including reducing time-to-integration for newly acquired businesses through standardised platform and infrastructure onboarding and integration patterns.


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