Senior Cloud Engineer

Hybrid Cloud Consultant/Architect (Higher Education)
Initial 3-month contract outside of IR35/Liverpool

Our client is working with a third party to assess their current estate to develop a strategic plan for modernising their platforms and cloud adoption approach.
They are looking to an Infrastructure focused Hybrid Cloud Specialist at Architectural level to work with their technical teams and this partner as a linchpin to ensure that the assessment, recommendations, and proposed roadmap are fully aligned with their operational needs and longer-term initiatives.

It is essential that the individual has experience of working within the Higher Education sector.

As part of you remit you will:

• You will act as a technical representative for our client with the third-party partner and ensure that their recommendations are technically sound, feasible, and aligned with our client's strategy
• Provide our client with an informed, independent oversight of architectural design and hybrid cloud direction
• Support the development of a modern, scalable, secure hybrid cloud vision and roadmap
• Support uplift in cloud capabilities so that internal teams can confidently adopt, operate and evolve hybrid cloud foundations

• Extensive hands-on experience in a hybrid cloud engineering or architectural role with experience of designing and evaluating hybrid and multi cloud architectures, including integration of on premises, IaaS, PaaS, and cloud native services
• Experience of working within the Higher Education sector
• Azure and or AWS Certifications (Azure Solutions Architect Expert, AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional or equivalent) and experience with both platforms
• Be able to evidence having worked on large-scale cloud transformation programmes, ideally in environments with complex Legacy estates and confident in the ability to develop strategies
• Expertise in designing and evaluating hybrid and multi cloud architectures, including integration of on premises, IaaS, PaaS, and cloud native services
• Sound knowledge of Cloud Adoption Framework and Well-Architected Framework
• Experience with hybrid network design including ExpressRoute, VPN, private endpoints, and network architectures, including micro-segmentation.
• Experience of stretching Data Centres to the Cloud and hybrid DNS
• Experience of Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, Bicep) and experience in designing and reviewing CI/CD pipelines, cloud deployment patterns, automation workflows, and hybrid operational tooling