Role Description
The Cloud Platform Specialist / Cloud Platform Consultant / Cloud Platform Director develops and improves cloud platforms that support secure, reliable business services. Responsibilities include assessing requirements, improving configurations, supporting automation, and evaluating performance, resilience, and cost.
The Specialist maintains platform capabilities and resolves technical issues. The Consultant recommends architectures and guides implementation or migration, while the Director sets platform strategy, leads teams and providers, and oversees investment, governance, and service performance.
Qualifications
- Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Relevant experience in cloud platforms, infrastructure, platform engineering, or cloud consulting.
- Practical knowledge of AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, or a comparable platform.
- Understanding of networking, compute, storage, identity management, and platform security.
- Familiarity with infrastructure as code, automation, containers, and monitoring.
- Ability to evaluate availability, capacity, recovery, and cost requirements.
- Strong communication and documentation skills for working with technical and business stakeholders.
- For specialist positions, experience configuring services, troubleshooting incidents, and improving platform reliability.
- For consultant positions, experience assessing workloads, designing solutions, and planning migrations or platform improvements.
- For director positions, proven experience setting technology roadmaps, leading teams, managing budgets and vendors, and overseeing platform governance.