Senior Architect - Private Cloud

Senior Architect Private Cloud (Banking and Finance client) Location: Sheffield, UK(Hybrid, 2 days in a week) 6 months contract 10+ years of experience Skills: Kubernetes, Kafka, VMware, Virtualization Responsibilities: Define and drive Private Cloud architecture aligned with Client Cloud Strategy Provide hands on technical leadership across virtualization containers Kubernetes, Kafka and microservices platforms Review architecture designs and ensure solutions are secure scalable resilient and cost effective Establish engineering standards reference architectures reusable patterns and platform guardrails Lead the design and evolution of private cloud platform components including compute storage networking orchestration and platform services Drive platform consistency across development testing and production environments Translate business and technology requirements into actionable platform engineering roadmaps Own Kubernetes architecture decisions including cluster design multitenancy ingress service mesh secrets management observability upgrade strategies and workload onboarding Establish GitOps CICD automation and configuration management standards Provide technical leadership for Kafka and EventDriven Architecture adoption Define Kafka governance partitioning strategies resiliency patterns schema management monitoring and capacity planning Guide engineering teams on microservices architecture domain design resiliency API contracts and operational readiness Improve ..... full job details .....