Job Title: Cloud Infrastructure Architect
Location: Liverpool City Centre on a Hybrid working basis
Salary: Up to £75,000 per annum DOE
Job Type: Permanent, Full Time
Working Hours: 37.5 hours per week, Monday-Friday 9.00am - 5.30pm
Acorn is looking for a passionate Cloud Infrastructure Architect who will be responsible for designing, implementing, and optimising secure, scalable, and highly available cloud platforms. This role requires technical leadership across cloud strategy, architecture governance, infrastructure modernisation, and operational excellence. The architect partners closely with business areas to ensure the cloud environment supports organisational goals and meets enterprise standards.
Responsibilities
* Develop end-to-end cloud architectures, supporting enterprise workloads, including compute, storage, networking, identity, and automation.
* Develop a close working relationship with Platform Engineering to ensure robust design and delivery across our cloud platforms.
* Create reference architectures, design patterns, and technical standards for cloud environments.
* Design hybrid and multi-cloud strategies leveraging platforms such as Azure, AWS, and GCP.
* Evaluate new cloud services, tools, and technologies to guide technical direction.
* Lead the design and implementation of core cloud infrastructure components: virtual networks, identity and access, monitoring, encryption, resilience, and backup strategies.
* Define infrastructure-as-code patterns using tools such as Terraform, Bicep, or ARM.
* Support migration of workloads from on-premise to cloud platforms following best-practice frameworks.
* Ensure cloud designs adhere to security standards, regulatory requirements, and architectural governance.
* Implement Zero Trust principles, network segmentation, encryption, key management, and secure access control models.
* Partner with SecOps teams to ensure monitoring, logging, and incident response capabilities are embedded.
* Develop automation and service optimisation strategies to improve performance, cost efficiency, and availability.
* Conduct capacity planning, resilience engineering, disaster recovery design, and performance tuning.
* Mentor engineers across cloud, DevOps, and infrastructure teams.
Qualifications
* Proven experience across several disciplines; networking, infrastructure, cloud platform and system administration.
* Extensive experience designing and supporting cloud infrastructure on Azure, AWS, or GCP.
* Strong understanding of networking (VNETs/VPCs, routing, DNS, load balancing, firewalls).
* Knowledge of infrastructure-as-code and automation tooling.
* Experience with container platforms (AKS, EKS, GKE, Kubernetes) and serverless architectures.
* Strong background in identity and access management (Azure AD, IAM, RBAC).
* Proven experience building scalable, resilient, and secure cloud architectures.
* Solid understanding of cloud cost optimisation and FinOps principles.
Benefits
* 35 days' holiday (including bank holidays) with additional buy/sell options.
* 24/7 mental health support & free counselling available.
* Growth opportunities through career fairs, leadership programs, and learning on the go.
* Flexible benefits, including early access to salary via our internal platform.
* Hybrid working options to support work-life balance and individual needs.
* Recognition awards, social events & more.
Our Commitment to our colleague's
* Mindful Employer.
* Disability Confident Level 1 & 2 – creating accessible, inclusive opportunities.
* Menopause Friendly accredited.
* Armed Forces Covenant signatory.
* Great Places to Work 2024/25.
* Best Place to Work for Development.
* Best Place to Work for Women.
Visa Requirements: We can only consider applicants who have at least one year remaining on their Graduate or Post-Study Work visa. At the moment, we’re not able to offer visa sponsorship.
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