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Acorn Insurance is seeking a Cloud Infrastructure Architect to design, implement, and optimize secure, scalable, and highly available cloud platforms. This role involves providing technical leadership across cloud strategy, architecture governance, infrastructure modernization, and operational excellence, partnering with various teams to align cloud environments with organizational goals.

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cloud infrastructure
Azure
AWS
GCP
networking
infrastructure
system administration
container platforms
serverless architectures
identity and access management
FinOps principles

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Required Previous Experiences: Extensive experience designing and supporting cloud infrastructure on Azure, AWS, or GCP
Strong understanding of networking (VNETs/VPCs, routing, DNS, load balancing, firewalls).
Deep 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
Preferred Qualifications: Develop end-to-end cloud architectures that support enterprise workloads, including compute, storage, networking, identity, and automation.
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 (IaC) 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 Security Operations and SOC 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.
Act as a subject-matter expert and trusted advisor for cloud strategy and infrastructure initiatives.
Mentor engineers and contribute to capability uplift across cloud, DevOps, and infrastructure teams.
Communicate technical concepts clearly to executives, project managers, and non-technical stakeholders.

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