Cloud Architect - Tech Consultancy - Defence & Security - Deloitte

Basic information

Location

Bristol, London, Manchester

Business Line

Technology & Transformation

Job Type

Permanent / FTC

Date published

31-Jul-2026

Req #

24462

Job description

Connect to your opportunity

• Role: Cloud Architect
• Base Office Location: Bristol, London or Manchester
• Mandatory Requirement: Active UK Developed Vetting (DV) security clearance.

Are you able to guide defence users through complex technology challenges, and rapidly develop new solutions to meet defence needs? We are looking for an experienced senior hire to help digitise defence with new thinking on technology capabilities and adoption processes, and someone who is sensitively able to combine the latest thinking with traditional military functions.

The future is full of possibility, agility and Cloud. Do you want to shape the future of cloud experiences? So do we. Deloitte Cloud Transformation imagines, delivers and runs innovative Cloud solutions for the UK's most prominent companies using a combination of open-source software, cloud-native technologies, thought leadership and a focus on business value. We pride ourselves on the quality of our staff and offer unique opportunities to learn, grow and lead in exciting new areas such as infrastructure-as-code, DevOps, containers, platform-as-a-service, CI/CD and micro-services.

In this role, you can expect to:

• Guide our clients through their cloud journey from strategy through to a working and breathing environment supporting their most critical services.
• Help to build robust and scalable cloud platforms that enable teams to deliver modern micro-services based and digital solutions and continuously improve environments through automation and infrastructure-as-code.
• Focus on helping our clients design and implement modern, agile Cloud environments.
• Deliver across a broad range of activities from technical and solution architecture design to operations, prototyping, developing and testing (depending on the size of the project and the client needs).
• Collaborate with cloud thought leaders across disciplines to innovate together contributing to RFP responses and other business development activities and building lasting relationships with clients and colleagues.

Connect to your skills and professional experience

All applicants must hold a DV (Developed Vetting) clearance to apply.

We are currently looking for candidates with proven ability to apply knowledge and expertise in a range of client scenarios, focusing on high quality even in high pressured, time critical situations, and with skills across the following areas:

Problem Solving & Delivery:

• Providing thought-through, clearly articulated, pragmatic solutions and recommendations to complex business problems.