Technical Architect
UK Remote
Salary £95,000
SC Clearance eligibility required
We’re looking for an experienced Technical Architect to join our Cloud Engineering and Platforms practice. This hands-on leadership role involves designing and building secure, automated, and scalable cloud platforms, with a primary focus on Microsoft Azure and a growing multi-cloud footprint across AWS and GCP.
This is an ideal opportunity for a pragmatic architect with strong engineering depth and a clear architectural mindset—someone who can articulate what excellence looks like and bring it to life through modern DevOps, automation, and infrastructure-as-code patterns.
Key Responsibilities
* Translate business needs into secure, scalable architectures using WellArchitected Frameworks
* Lead platform architecture and embed NFRs
* Build automated cloud platforms using IaC
* Develop CI/CD pipelines and reusable modules, guardrails, and policyascode to support secure, consistent cloud adoption.
* Apply end-to-end security across identity, networking, encryption, secrets, MFA, and zerotrust.
* Implement automated security scanning (SAST/DAST), dependency checks, and secure pipeline patterns, aligning platforms with organisational and regulatory standards.
* Work across the full project lifecycle.
About You:
* Experienced in designing and building secure cloud solutions (ideally Azure, with awareness of AWS or GCP) and cloudready, distributed, scalable architectures
* Skilled at leading technical discussions and articulating architectural decisions,
* Advanced knowledge of IaC automation (Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation) with strong DevOps skills across CI/CD pipelines, automation, and modern development practices
* Knowledgeable in cost analysis, optimisation, ROI modelling
Knowledge and Experience of the following would be advantageous:
* Consulting or client facing project leadership experience
* Experience with .NET or Python
* Familiar with cloud-native security tooling
If you are looking to join a leading consultancy specialising in Digital, Security and AI solutions then this is the role for you.
Bright Purple is an equal opportunities employer: we are proud to work with clients who share our values of diversity and inclusion in our industry.