Solution Architect (Infrastructure & Cloud)

TL;DR

Solution Architect (Infrastructure & Cloud): Designing and maintaining cloud infrastructure and roadmaps for a health and social care regulator with an accent on Azure migration and digital transformation. Focus on building scalable reference architectures, implementing IaC, and overseeing the transition from legacy systems to modern cloud platforms.

Location: Remote (occasional travel to London required)

Salary: £75,000 - £85,000

Company

An organisation playing a pivotal role in safeguarding and improving the quality of health and social care services across England through data, technology, and innovation.

What you will do

• Develop and maintain infrastructure and cloud roadmaps, including migration paths for legacy systems and decommissioning obsolete platforms.
• Define and maintain cloud reference architectures to ensure consistency, reusability, and alignment with organisational standards.
• Act as the design authority for hosting, networking, identity, and platform services across projects and workstreams.
• Champion the use of Infrastructure as Code (IaC), automation, and DevOps practices for efficient infrastructure delivery.

Requirements

• Proven experience designing and delivering cloud and infrastructure solutions (Azure essential) within complex organisations.
• Deep knowledge of cloud landing zones, governance models, cost optimisation, and hybrid-cloud approaches.
• Strong expertise in networking, hosting, and identity services, including Active Directory, identity federation, firewalls, and VPNs.
• Experience with IaC and automation tools such as Terraform, ARM, Bicep, or Ansible.
• Knowledge of containerisation and orchestration technologies, specifically Docker and Kubernetes.
• Must be able to travel occasionally to London.