Job Vacancy Cloud Infrastructure Architect

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.

About you:

Requirements:

• 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

Grow with Acorn

We bring over 40 years of specialist insurance expertise to the table. From humble beginnings, we've grown into a national leader, now employing 1,700+ people across the UK.

We're growing fast, with new opportunities emerging every week. That growth is largely due to the values we share:

• We run through walls for our customers and each other
• We challenge the status quo
• We succeed when we help those around us succeed
• We decide quickly when the smart thing to do is use our judgement

Benefits:

• 35 days' holiday (including bank holidays) with additional buy/sell options
• 24/7 mental health support & free counselling available
• Grow with us: 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:

Earn recognition and accreditation from leading organisations that share our commitment to people and growth:

• 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

Before applying, please know:

If your application is successful, we will run relevant employment checks prior to your employment with us. These will include a standard criminal record check and an insolvency register check.

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.

We're Here to Support You

We're committed to creating an inclusive, supportive workplace where everyone can flourish. If you need any adjustments during the recruitment process-or once you're part of the team-we'll work with you to make sure you can do your best work.

Please click the APPLY button to submit your CV for this role.

Candidates with experience or relevant job titles of; Cloud Infrastructure Administrator, IT Architect, Systems Developer, Software Architect may also be considered for this role.