Cloud Architect

Company: Elwood Roberts – Your Trusted Recruitment Partner
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Location: Greater London
Job Description:

Location: Hybrid – 3 days per week in the office (West London)

Type: permanent

We’re hiring for an experienced Cloud Architect who combines strong architectural capability with a genuinely hands-on approach to software engineering.

This is not a pure governance, strategy, or ivory-tower architecture role. We’re looking for someone who can design complex distributed systems and still write production-grade code themselves.

Our client is focused on quality over quantity and wants to see a small number of exceptional engineers, not a high volume of average-fit profiles.

What you’ll need

  • Strong AWS architecture and development experience
  • Hands-on software development in Python, Java, or .NET
  • Experience building event-driven systems using Kafka, EventBridge, or similar
  • Strong Infrastructure as Code experience with Terraform
  • Proven experience with microservices architecture
  • Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases
  • Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
  • Experience with containers, including Docker and Kubernetes

The key requirement

Candidates must be able to both architect solutions and build them hands-on.

We’re especially interested in professionals who are:

  • A senior engineer or architect who still codes daily
  • Able to operate effectively in large enterprise environments
  • Strong communicators who can influence technical direction
  • Ideally some exposure to the aviation or travel technology
  • Exposure to AI / ML frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, or scikit-learn
  • Ideally some experience with observability tools such as Datadog, New Relic, or CloudWatch
  • Multi-cloud experience across Azure or GCP would be ideal.
  • AWS certifications

Important

The client is specifically looking for top technical experts, not generalist cloud engineers.

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Posted: March 31st, 2026