Cloud Platform Architect
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Job Description
Cloud Platform Architect - SaaS & IDP Focus
Im currently supporting a client in the networking tech space seeking a Cloud Platform Architect to lead the design of a cloud-native multi-tenant SaaS platform and internal developer tooling. This is a strategic hands-on contract role ideal for someone who can balance architectural clarity with delivery momentum.
About the Engagement
You will be working with a high-trust engineering-led team building a SaaS solution for managing and monitoring networking devices. The platform is microservices-based Kubernetes-native and designed for scale security and observability. Youll also lead the buildout of an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) to streamline provisioning secrets management service mesh SSO integration and centralised metrics.
What You Will Be Driving
- Architecture for scalable secure multi-tenant SaaS
- IDP features: rapid environment provisioning automated cert/secrets rotation service mesh SSO (OIDC/SAML) centralised logging
- Cloud standards patterns and best practices
- Platform scalability tooling selection and DevOps workflows
- Multi-tenant security and compliance
- Mentoring engineers in Kubernetes GitOps and cloud-native tooling
Toolkit
- Kubernetes: Production-grade ops (upgrades scaling DR)
- AWS: EKS RDS IAM CloudWatch; multi-cloud familiarity welcome
- IaC: Terraform OpenTofu Pulumi
- CI/CD & GitOps: GitHub Actions GitLab CI ArgoCD Flux
- Networking & Security: VPCs ingress RBAC pod security zero-trust
- Observability: Prometheus Grafana Loki Jaeger OpenTelemetry
- Secrets & Identity: Vault AWS Secrets Manager OAuth2 OIDC
Bonus Experience
- CNCF ecosystem: Crossplane Kyverno OPA Backstage
- IDP design and developer experience
- Networking products or telemetry pipelines
- FinOps and SaaS compliance (ISO27001 SOC2)
- DR HA and scaling strategies
Contract Details
- Type: Contractor (full-time preferred part-time negotiable)
- Duration: 2 - 6 months
- Location: On-site or remote-friendly
If you are a pragmatic architect with a hands-on mindset and a track record of delivering impact in complex cloud environments we would love to hear from you. This is a great opportunity to shape platform foundations while collaborating with a thoughtful delivery-focused team. Reach out via CodeMatch to express interest or request more detail.
Employment Type
Full Time
