Senior Cloud Architect

Senior Cloud Architect | Edinburgh (Hybrid Working) | Competitive Salary & Great Benefits

Quorum is looking for a Senior Cloud Architect to join our growing team. This is a hands-on, client-facing role where you’ll design, deliver, and assure secure, resilient cloud and hybrid solutions across leading platforms.

You’ll lead technical discovery, define target architectures, and guide delivery teams to ensure solutions are implemented safely, predictably, and cost-effectively. Alongside this, you’ll play a key role in shaping client strategy, improving delivery standards, and mentoring engineers.

Key Responsibilities of the Senior Cloud Architect

Lead technical discovery, translating business goals into scalable cloud and hybrid architectures

Support pre-sales and bid activities, shaping solution designs, estimates, and technical approaches

Define target architectures, reference patterns, and guardrails (including landing zones)

Design security-by-design solutions (IAM, encryption, secrets management, monitoring, policy enforcement)

Architect resilient platforms with clear backup, disaster recovery, and operational strategies (RTO/RPO aligned)

Enable delivery through Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, and automation best practices

Provide architecture assurance—reviewing designs, managing risks, and ensuring alignment to scope, cost, and security

Support FinOps practices including cost modelling, tagging strategies, and optimisation

Mentor engineers and contribute to continuous improvement and knowledge sharing

What We’re Looking For

Proven experience designing and delivering cloud and hybrid architectures in a consultancy or multi-client environment

Strong knowledge of networking, connectivity, and segmentation (including secure ingress/egress and private connectivity)

Solid security foundations: IAM, least privilege, encryption, secrets management, and monitoring

Experience designing highly available, multi-region architectures with defined disaster recovery strategies

Automation-first mindset with Infrastructure as Code, configuration management, and CI/CD pipelines

Excellent communication skills, with the ability to engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Experience producing high-quality architecture documentation (HLDs, LLDs, decision records)

Technologies & Environment

You’ll work across a modern cloud ecosystem, including

Public cloud & hybrid platforms

Containers/Kubernetes and autoscaling compute

Networking (DNS, load balancing, segmentation, private connectivity)

Security (IAM, MFA, encryption, policy enforcement)

Storage & data services (object/block/file, backup, replication)

Automation (IaC, pipelines, scripting)

Observability (logging, metrics, tracing, SIEM integration)

Why Join Quorum?

Quorum is an employee-owned IT consultancy, delivering managed services, projects, and professional services to organisations across the public and private sectors.

We offer a highly competitive package and a culture that genuinely supports your growth:

Competitive salary

Contributory pension & private healthcare

Buy/sell holiday scheme

Paid home broadband

Annual bonus for Microsoft accreditations

Personal technical development budget

Award-winning, family-friendly working culture

Strong focus on learning, collaboration, and career progression

We pride ourselves on high employee retention and a culture where people can thrive—professionally and personally.