Azure/AWS Infrastructure Architect

Job Description: Azure/AWS Infrastructure Architect

Role Overview The Cloud Infrastructure Engineer is the senior technical owner of Merkle Denmark’s cloud platform architecture. The role focuses on designing, building, and evolving the cloud foundations, guardrails, and platform capabilities that underpin client operations — ensuring environments are reliable, secure, and well-governed. The role is a hands-on specialist position. It sets the direction for how cloud infrastructure is designed, built, and hardened across client accounts, and provides deep technical input on complex incidents, major changes, and architecture-impacting decisions. People leadership, resource allocation, and day-to-day team direction sit with the Engineering Director.

Responsibilities

Cloud Infrastructure Engineering

• Architect and build cloud foundations and platform capabilities across client environments.
• Define secure-by-design patterns, guardrails, and platform standards for Cloud Operations to operate within.
• Design resilience and continuity architecture, including backup/restore strategy and disaster recovery.
• Own and evolve infrastructure-as-code (IaC) practices and tooling standards.
• Drive continuous improvement of the platform approach, ensuring it evolves with client needs and industry practice.
• Provide specialist guidance to Cloud Operations Engineers during complex incident investigations, major changes, and architecture-impacting decisions.