CLOUD ARCHITECT - VOIS

## Who we are VOIS (Vodafone Intelligent Solutions) is a strategic arm of Vodafone Group Plc, creating value for customers by delivering intelligent solutions through Talent, Technology & Transformation. As the largest shared services organisation in the global telco industry with 30,000 FTE, our portfolio of next-generation solutions and services are designed in partnership with customers across Vodafone Group, local markets, and partner markets to simplify and drive growth. With our strategic partner Accenture, we work alongside our Vodafone customers, other Telco and tech companies to drive transformation, meet the challenges of our industry and ensure we stay relevant and resilient. This partnership is a unique, industry-first model which brings together the best of in-house and 3rd party capability. We work with customers across 28 countries from 10 VOIS locations: Albania, Egypt, Hungary, India, Romania, Spain, Turkey, UK, Germany, Ireland, and with a network of teams in Czech Republic, Italy, Greece, and Portugal. #VOIS #BeUnrivalled #CreateTheFuture ## About this Role We are seeking an experienced Cloud Architect to govern, review, and continuously enhance the local market’s application and cloud architecture landscape. This role plays a critical part in shaping cloud-native adoption and application modernisation, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, resilient, cost-efficient, and aligned to business needs. Working across multiple delivery teams, the individual will provide architectural leadership with a strong focus on AWS, containerisation, and Amazon EKS, while influencing engineering standards and long-term technology direction. ## What you’ll do * Assess existing applications and cloud implementations to identify technical debt, architectural risks, and modernisation opportunities. * Define and drive application modernisation strategies, including refactoring, re-platforming, and re-architecture. * Review and approve High-Level and Low-Level Designs, ensuring alignment with architectural standards and best practices. * Design and govern enterprise-grade architectures across monolithic and microservices-based systems. * Define, validate, and assure Non-Functional Requirements such as scalability, availability, performance, and security. * Review API designs, including REST standards, versioning, security, and integration patterns. * Guide containerisation standards and validate Kubernetes and Amazon EKS deployment models. * Ensure production-ready Kubernetes configurations, including autoscaling, namespaces, and resource management. * Provide architectural oversight for CI/CD pipelines, GitOps, and DevSecOps practices. * Design and validate scalable, secure, and resilient AWS solutions, including disaster recovery and high availability. * Recommend cost optimisation and performance improvement strategies across cloud platforms. * Own final architectural decisions, including patterns, service decomposition, and integration approaches. * Collaborate with engineering, DevOps, platform, cloud infrastructure, and security teams, and contribute to SAFe PI planning and architectural runway discussions. ## Who you are * An experienced application and solution architect with deep expertise in cloud-native and distributed system design. * Highly skilled in AWS architecture, including services such as EKS, EC2, RDS, S3, IAM, ALB/NLB, and WAF. * Proficient in Kubernetes, Docker, and container lifecycle management within enterprise environments. * Knowledgeable in Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform and/or CloudFormation. * Experienced in reviewing CI/CD pipelines, automation strategies, and observability frameworks. * Comfortable working in large-scale, cross-functional, and Agile (SAFe) delivery environments. * Confident influencing stakeholders and technical teams without direct authority. * An effective communicator with strong documentation and presentation capabilities. *...