CLOUD ARCHITECT - VOIS

Job Description

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.
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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.
• Qualified with a bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, with extensive overall IT experience and significant exposure to AWS architecture.
• AWS Solutions Architect and Kubernetes certifications are preferred, with SAFe certification considered an advantage.

Not a perfect fit?

Concerned you may not meet every requirement? Vodafone is committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive. If you are excited about this role but your experience does not align exactly with every aspect of the job description, you are encouraged to apply. You may be the right candidate for this or another opportunity, and the recruitment team will support you in exploring where your skills fit best.

What's in it for you

• The opportunity to influence large-scale cloud and application architecture within a global organisation.
• Exposure to complex, enterprise-level AWS and Kubernetes environments.
• Collaboration with diverse, highly skilled teams across multiple markets.
• A role with clear architectural ownership and strategic impact on technology direction.
• An environment that supports continuous learning, innovation, and professional growth.

What skills you will learn

• Advanced cloud governance and architectural decision-making at enterprise scale.
• Deeper expertise in cloud cost optimisation, resilience engineering, and security-by-design.
• Enhanced stakeholder engagement and architectural leadership within SAFe environments.
• Broader exposure to modern DevSecOps, GitOps, and platform engineering practices.

VOIS Equal Opportunity Employer Commitment

Vodafone recognises and celebrates the value of diversity in building a workforce that reflects the customers and communities it serves. No form of discrimination is tolerated. This includes, but is not limited to, discrimination based on race, colour, age, veteran status, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, pregnancy, maternity or parental status, ethnicity, disability, religion or belief, political affiliation, trade union membership, nationality, citizenship, indigenous status, medical condition, HIV status, neurodiversity, social origin, cultural background, marital or civil partnership status, or socio-economic background.

Join Us

At Vodafone, we’re working hard to build a better future. A more connected, inclusive and sustainable world. As a dynamic global community, it's our human spirit, together with technology, that empowers us to achieve this.
We challenge and innovate in order to connect people, businesses, and communities across the world. Delighting our customers and earning their loyalty drive us, and we experiment, learn fast and get it done, together.
With us, you can truly be yourself and belong, share inspiration, embrace new opportunities, thrive, and make a real difference.

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