Private Cloud Senior Architect

Requirements: Proven experience as an Architect/Engineer/Lead Engineer/Senior Staff Engineer (or equivalent) in large-scale, regulated, enterprise environments. Strong background in private cloud/platform engineering, including solid depth in at least two of: Virtualisation technologies (eg, VMware or equivalent), Containers andamp; Kubernetes (cluster operations, upgrades, networking, multi-tenancy, policy), Kafka/event streaming platforms (architecture, operations, governance) Strong engineering fundamentals: distributed systems, networking concepts, performance tuning, fault tolerance and capacity planning. Automation mindset with experience in Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD practices (tooling can vary). Strong operational and risk awareness: security controls, change management, and production readiness practices. Desirable skills: Service mesh, API gateways, secrets management, policy-as-code. Observability platforms (metrics/logs/traces) and practical incident leadership. Experience building platform as a product capabilities (service catalogue, self-service, developer portals). Experience with multi-region/active-active design considerations and resilience testing. Key responsibilities: Architectural design decisions in line with Cloud Strategy Set 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 ..... full job details .....