Cloud Architect, Engineering, Defence & Security (DV clearance required)
Contract Job Title: Cloud Architect, Engineering, Defence & Security (DV clearance required)
Contract Start Date: March 2026
Contract Length: 12 months, with potential extension
Contract Classification: Inside IR25
Contract Location: London, Bristol or Manchester with hybrid working (2/3 days in the office)
** Mandatory requirement: Must have DV Clearance **
Role Overview:
We are proud of the impact we have with our Defence & Security clients, the strength of our relationships, and the variety of our skills and expertise that we bring to help them achieve their mission. We’re growing our teams across all of Technology and Transformation.
If you are cleared DV level, we are very keen to hear from you.
Are you able to guide defence users through complex technology
challenges, and rapidly develop new solutions to meet defence needs? We are looking for an experienced
senior hire to help digitise defence with new thinking on technology
capabilities and adoption processes, and someone who is sensitively able to
combine the latest thinking with traditional military functions.
The future is full of possibility, agility and Cloud. Do you want to
shape the future of cloud experiences? So do we. Deloitte Cloud Transformation
imagines, delivers and runs innovative Cloud solutions for the UK's most
prominent companies using a combination of open-source software, cloud-native
technologies, thought leadership and a focus on business value. We pride
ourselves on the quality of our staff and offer unique opportunities to learn,
grow and lead in exciting new areas such as infrastructure-as-code, DevOps,
containers, platform-as-a-service, CI/CD and micro-services
You will guide our clients through their cloud journey from strategy
through to a working and breathing environment supporting their most critical
services. You will help to build robust and scalable cloud platforms that
enable teams to deliver modern micro-services based and digital solutions and
continuously improve environments through automation and
infrastructure-as-code.
You will focus on helping our clients design and implement modern, agile
Cloud environments. Responsibilities will include delivering across a broad
range of activities from technical and solution architecture design to
operations, prototyping, developing and testing (depending on the size of the
project and the client needs).
You will be collaborating with cloud thought leaders across disciplines
to innovate together contributing to RFP responses and other business
development activities and building lasting relationships with clients and
colleagues.
Required Skills & Experience:
- All applicants must hold UK security clearance to Developed Vetting level
- Cloud
Architecture & Engineering
- Cloud
technologies and services (AWS / Azure / Google Cloud Platform / OCI).
- Container
technologies (e.g. Docker, Rocket) and their associated orchestration
engines (Kubernetes / OpenShift / Rancher / Swarm).
- Infrastructure
as code development (Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, ARM, GCP CDM).
- Running and
using Cloud automation tooling including Continuous Integration &
Deployment.
- DevOps
philosophies and toolchains such as continuous integration and delivery.
- Linux and
windows system implementation and management using automation frame works
such as Ansible, Salt Stack, Puppet, PowerShell etc.
- Application
deployment and testing tool chains such as Jenkins, SVN, GitHub.
- Knowledge of
security and performance considerations and approaches for digital
systems, and exposure to security and performance testing process.
- Experience
helping clients define technical and non-functional requirements.
- Cloud
environment design and implementation.
- Cloud
Consulting
- Defining and delivering a Cloud Strategy and Operating Model
that aligns to and underpins business, technology and/or digital
strategies.
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