Hybrid Cloud Architect

**Position Overview**:
The Hybrid Cloud Architect is a key member of the Architecture Team, responsible for designing, implementing, optimizing, and governing the organization's hybrid environments across compute, networking, storage, security, and platform automation. This role is hands-on and focused on building scalable, resilient, and cost-effective solutions across AWS and on-prem infrastructure, enabling the business to innovate securely and efficiently. The Hybrid Cloud Architect works closely with Platform Engineers, Security, Developers, and Architects to deliver infrastructure solutions aligned with business and compliance requirements

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Own the design and delivery of secure, scalable, and cost-effective infrastructure solutions, with a strong focus on maintainability and efficiency across cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments.
- Own the end-to-end design and implementation of secure, scalable, and cost
- optimized on-prem infrastructure, leveraging cloud whenever is adequate.
- Perform cloud migrations and modernizations, defining roadmaps and execution strategies.
- Perform on-prem migrations and modernizations, performing cost benefit analysis, cloud alternative evaluations, creating roadmaps, developing and rolling out execution strategies.
- Develop and enforce governance policies around cloud provisioning, cost management, tagging, and lifecycle.
- Troubleshoot incidents or misconfigurations of services deployed on both cloud and on-prem setups.
- Evaluate and integrate new technologies and tools to enhance performance and reliability on both on-prem and cloud.
- Support the integration of on-prem and cloud environments, including hybrid connectivity, workload placement, and identity federation strategies
- Architect, implement and maintain both on-prem and cloud networking topologies, including VPCs, VPNs, Transit Gateways, subnets, routing, DNS, and load balancers.
- Implement IAM policies, security groups, RBAC, and encryption in line with Zero Trust principles.
- Collaborate with security teams to ensure compliance with GDPR and gaming regulations.
- Integrate threat detection, auditing, and remediation into the platform
- Manage container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes (EKS, GKE, ),including lifecycle, scaling, and monitoring.
- Partner with platform teams to enhance CI/CD infrastructure and ephemeral environments.
- Ensure high availability, performance, and disaster recovery for production workloads.
- Lead the continuous improvement of monitoring and observability for on prem infrastructure, including deep investigations of complex issues and contributing to the evaluation and selection of observability tooling
- Monitor cloud usage and implement FinOps best practices to control spend and maximize ROI.
- Build Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or CloudFormation.
- Automate provisioning, patching, scaling, and teardown of infrastructure components.
- Implement tagging and observability tools to improve visibility into operations and cost drivers.
- Be the expert across the organization, advising engineers and stakeholders on best practices.
- Provide technical guidance and mentoring to teams adopting cloud-native solutions, on-prem solutions and hybrid solutions.
- Develop and maintain documentation and internal standards for cloud/ on-prem usage
- Lead proof-of-concepts and evaluate emerging technologies relevant to cloud platforms and automation.
- Stay current with industry trends in on-prem/cloud architecture, platform tooling, and platform security.
- Identify opportunities for architectural and operational improvements in the on prem/cloud ecosystem, balancing cost, reliability, performance and stability of the related platforms

**Requirements**:

- Cloud, Platform, or Infrastructure architecture
- Certified AWS Solutions Architect Associate (Professional is a plus)
- Proven experience with AWS (multi-account architecture, VPCs, IAM, EKS, etc.); Azure or GCP is a plus.
- Experience working in hybrid environments with both cloud and on-prem infrastructure. Demonstrated ability to design, maintain, and migrate workloads between these environments.
- Strong background in networking, security, and automation (Terraform,
Python, Bash).
- Hands-on experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes) and CI/CD tooling.
- Familiarity with cloud cost optimization and observability practices
- The above duties provide a generic description of the Employee’s day to day responsibilities but should in no way be deemed to be an exhaustive list. Additional related, duties may be assigned by the Line Manager in line with business exigencies and continuity._

**Why Work With Us?**:
At Silverspin, we’re not just about work—we’re about passion, innovation, and community. Joining us means you’ll be part of a team that celebrates creativity, supports professional growth, and values every voice. We’re committed to making Silverspin a place where you’ll