https://jobs.co.uk/job/senior-architect-private-cloud-randstad-technologies-recruitment--e2703b7f-9ac5-4877-bfb7-ec68efee80b3 RSS feed for Senior Architect Private Cloud at Randstad Technologies Recruitment. en-gb Fri, 04 Sep 2026 22:41:22 GMT https://jobs.co.uk/job/senior-architect-private-cloud-randstad-technologies-recruitment--e2703b7f-9ac5-4877-bfb7-ec68efee80b3 https://jobs.co.uk/job/senior-architect-private-cloud-randstad-technologies-recruitment--e2703b7f-9ac5-4877-bfb7-ec68efee80b3 Thu, 03 Sep 2026 23:00:00 GMT Location: Sheffield | Salary: £500 - £550/day Inside IR35 via Umbrella | Type: Contract | Role: Senior Architect - Private Cloud Location: Sheffield, UK (Hybrid: 2 days/week on-site) Duration: 6 Months (Inside IR35) Experience Level: 10+ Years Role Overview We are seeking a Senior Private Cloud Architect to define, design, and drive the evolution of our enterprise private cloud infrastructure. You will provide hands-on technical leadership across container platforms, event streaming architectures, and virtualization environments, ensuring our platforms are secure, resilient, scalable, and developer-friendly. Key Responsibilities Architectural Strategy & Standards: Define the private cloud roadmap aligned with broader enterprise goals. Establish reference architectures, engineering standards, reusable design patterns, and platform guardrails. Kubernetes Platform Leadership: Own the end-to-end Kubernetes ecosystem, including cluster topology, multi-tenancy, ingress, service mesh, secrets management, observability, and seamless workload onboarding. Event-Driven Architecture: Direct the adoption and governance of Apache Kafka, covering partitioning strategies, schema management, resilience patterns, capacity planning, and security. Platform Eng... Contract