TIEVA

Cloud Solution Architect

TIEVA

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Reading • United Kingdom

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Tech Stack

AzureCloudTerraformVMware

About the role

  • Own solutions end-to-end — from pre-sales through to delivery
  • Act as design authority, shaping what gets sold and how it’s delivered
  • Work across Azure migrations, landing zones, and modern cloud platforms
  • Influence standards, frameworks, and reusable offerings
  • Join a collaborative team where pre-sales and delivery are genuinely aligned
  • Sit at the intersection of pre-sales, architecture, and hands-on delivery
  • Lead technical pre-sales engagements, ensuring solutions are deliverable, scalable, and commercially sound
  • Run customer discovery workshops and cloud assessments across infrastructure, security, identity, and governance
  • Translate findings into clear recommendations, roadmaps, and executive-level outputs
  • Produce high-quality artefacts including SOWs, high-level designs (HLDs), and effort estimates
  • Act as technical sign-off authority for solutions before they are presented to customers
  • Support bids, RFPs, and customer presentations as the trusted technical expert
  • Lead delivery of complex Azure projects including migrations, landing zones, and platform builds
  • Design and implement Azure environments aligned to Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) best practices
  • Own technical quality from project kick-off through to service transition
  • Act as the escalation point for technical issues, risks, and dependencies
  • Ensure delivery stays aligned to agreed scope, timelines, and effort
  • Mentor junior engineers and contribute to a strong technical culture
  • Contribute to repeatable service offerings, frameworks, and best practices
  • Build reusable artefacts including assessment tools, templates, and reference architectures
  • Stay current with Azure and Microsoft technology developments and share knowledge internally

Requirements

  • Proven experience in a Cloud Solutions Architect, Pre-Sales Architect, or Senior Consultant role
  • Strong experience across the full lifecycle: discovery, design, SOW creation, and delivery
  • Hands-on delivery experience with Azure migrations, landing zones, and cloud platforms
  • Ability to balance technical excellence with commercial awareness (scope, effort, margin)
  • Confidence leading customer workshops and engaging with both technical and business stakeholders
  • Technical expertise in: Azure architecture (IaaS & PaaS)
  • Networking, identity, and security (Entra ID, Conditional Access, networking design)
  • Azure migration tools and approaches (Azure Migrate, wave planning)
  • Governance and monitoring (Policy, Log Analytics, Azure Monitor)
  • Infrastructure as Code (Bicep, Terraform, or similar)
  • Desirable: Experience with hybrid cloud (Azure Arc, VMware, etc.)
  • Exposure to security and compliance tooling (Defender, Sentinel, Purview)
  • Understanding of FinOps or cost optimisation practices
  • Certifications: AZ-305 (Azure Solutions Architect Expert) — preferred or working towards AZ-104 (Azure Administrator Associate) — strongly desirable
Benefits
  • Financial
  • Life Insurance
  • Pension
  • Car allowance (subject to role)
  • £1000 refer a friend bonus.
  • Generous uncapped commission scheme (sales role)
  • Profit share bonus scheme (non-sales, subject to T&C’s)
  • Free will-writing service
  • Long Service Awards (financial and time rewards)
  • Electric Car Scheme (salary sacrifice)
  • Cycle to Work Scheme (salary sacrifice)
  • IT Purchase / Loan Scheme
  • Financial Wellbeing Tool
  • Pension Surgery (consultation with a financial advisor)
  • Discount scheme (retail, experience days etc.)
  • Navan Buying holidays (salary sacrifice)
  • Childcare voucher scheme
  • Health and Wellbeing
  • Private Medical Insurance
  • Employee Assistance Programme -for you and your family (Counselling, legal advice, career coaching, financial support)
  • Digital GP
  • Wisdom Well-Being Platform
  • Gym membership contribution
  • Gym time
  • Yoga –Free onsite yoga
  • Eye tests
  • Flu jabs
  • Fruit basket –per floor stocked weekly
  • Mental Health First Aiders
  • Time off
  • Holidays –above statutory increasing with service, plus 8 bank holidays
  • Birthday benefit -Have your birthday off on us!
  • Enhanced Maternity Pay
  • Enhanced Paternity Pay
  • Compassionate Leave
  • Jury Duty
  • Funeral Leave
  • Volunteering Days
  • Welcome goodie bag.
  • Company apparel
  • Free staff parties
  • Incentives –Competitions and prizes including trips.
  • Staff awards
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
Azure architectureIaaSPaaSAzure migrationslanding zonesInfrastructure as CodeBicepTerraformAzure migration toolsGovernance and monitoring
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationcollaborationcustomer engagementmentoringtechnical excellencecommercial awarenessproblem-solvingstakeholder managementworkshop facilitation
Certifications
AZ-305AZ-104