Private Cloud Senior Architect

Private Cloud Senior Architect Location: Sheffield Work Setup: 60% office 40% home Duration: 25-Dec-26 (chance for extension)Rate £515 CONTRACTOR MUST BE ELIGIBLE FOR BPSS MUST BE PAYE THROUGH UMBRELLARole Description: In this role, you will: As a Senior Architect in Private Cloud, you''ll provide hands-on technical leadership across the clients private cloud platform, shaping and improving our virtualisation, container and Kubernetes capabilities, and enabling resilient, secure, high-performing services (including Kafka-based event streaming and microservices platforms). Reporting to the Head of Private Cloud, you''ll partner closely with Product Owners, architects and engineering teams across CTO to turn strategy into practical, well-engineered outcomes.Key responsibilities:Architectural design decisions in line with the clients Cloud StrategySet engineering direction for private cloud capabilities spanning virtualisation, containers, Kubernetes, Kafka/event streaming, and microservices enablement.Act as a senior technical authority, review designs, challenge assumptions, and ensure solutions are supportable, secure, and cost-effective.Define and promote engineering standards, reference architectures, patterns and guardrails (think: "paved roads", not "speed bumps").Lead the end-to-end design and evolution of private cloud platform components (compute, storage, networking, orchestration, platform services).Drive consistent platform capabilities across environments ..... full job details .....