Global Cloud Platform Technical Design Authority
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Global Cloud Platform Technical Design Authority governing AWS and Azure infrastructure for Belron, the vehicle-glass services company. Approving designs, changes, standards, and technical assurance across its global cloud estate.
Responsibilities:
- Act as the global technical authority for cloud infrastructure implementation design across AWS and Azure
- Translate approved High Level Designs, reference architectures, and strategic technology requirements into implementation-ready Low Level Designs and technical specifications
- Determine implementation approaches, design patterns, technical controls, infrastructure configurations, and operational requirements within architectural guardrails
- Make technical decisions on standards, technology selection, design exceptions, and non-standard infrastructure requirements
- Provide technical guidance during major incidents, complex platform changes, service recovery, and significant infrastructure initiatives
- Review technical solutions for availability, resilience, disaster recovery, security, observability, supportability, and cost optimisation
- Operate as the mandatory technical approval gate for cloud infrastructure changes before CAB
- Approve or block technical changes based on compliance, risk, quality, supportability, security, and implementation readiness
- Review technical designs, implementation plans, rollback strategies, verification activities, and supporting change evidence
- Enforce cloud platform standards across networking, identity, security, segmentation, naming, tagging, observability, backup, disaster recovery, and operational controls
- Govern technical exceptions and drive continuous improvement through reusable design patterns, standards enhancement, and automation
- Assure internal and managed-service-provider implementations against approved designs, specifications, quality standards, and acceptance criteria
- Participate in architecture reviews, governance forums, supplier performance reviews, operational reviews, and continuous improvement initiatives
- Communicate technical risks, options, trade-offs, governance outcomes, and decision rationale to technical stakeholders and senior leadership
- Maintain audit-ready technical artefacts, design records, implementation documentation, evidence packs, runbooks, governance records, and service documentation
- Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture, Cloud Architecture, Cyber Security, engineering teams, country IT teams, and managed service providers
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent
- Master’s Degree in Information Systems, Cloud Computing, or Technology Management
- 8+ years of cloud operations or engineering experience in a regulated change environment (ITIL or equivalent)
- Substantial hands-on experience producing and reviewing HLDs and LLDs and providing technical design assurance into CAB/change control
- Demonstrable experience defining and enforcing technical standards and reference architectures
- Experience assuring designs against non-functional requirements across AWS and Azure
- Experience assuring vendor- or managed-service-delivered changes through clear requirements, acceptance criteria, and evidence-based decisions
- One or more of the following given strong consideration: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional; Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305); ITIL v4; TOGAF or equivalent; cloud security or Well-Architected credential; Infrastructure as Code review and controls familiarity
- Deep expertise reviewing and approving HLDs and LLDs and assuring change quality, risk, rollback, and evidence within CAB/change control
- Strong architecture knowledge across AWS and Azure networking, identity, compute, storage, monitoring, and backup/DR; GCP is a bonus
- Knowledge of technical standards, reference architectures, landing zones, ITIL-aligned change control, CAB processes, risk assessment, acceptance criteria, cloud security, compliance, and audit readiness
- Familiarity reviewing Terraform, Bicep/ARM, or CloudFormation, including policy-as-code and IaC scanning
- Working knowledge of ISO 27001, SOC 2, NIST, and awareness of NIS2 and DORA
- Ability to travel as required, including occasional visits to regional offices, data centres, and supplier sites
Benefits:
- Very competitive salary
- Extensive benefits package
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