Job Description

AWS Technical Architect

+6 months +

+Fully remote

+SC cleared role - current active clearance is essential

As an AWS Technical Architect, you'll take high-level customer requirements and turn them into practical, secure, and production-ready AWS solutions.

You'll work closely with CloudOps, DevOps, engineering teams, and customer stakeholders to design cloud platforms that are scalable, resilient, secure, and cost-effective.

This is a hands-on role but also highly collaborative and strategic - ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex technical problems while guiding teams and influencing architecture decisions.

• Solution Design: Architecting cloud solutions on AWS according to business requirements, covering infrastructure design, application architecture, security, and integration patterns.
• DevOps Automation and IaC: Champion an automation-first mindset, ensuring all scalable architectures are driven by Terraform Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and modern automation tools.
• Cloud Migration: Assisting in migrating on-premises infrastructure and applications to AWS cloud with minimal disruption and optimal performance.
• Security and Compliance: Implementing security best practices and compliance standards within AWS environments, including identity and access management, encryption, and network security.
• Network Architecture: Establish central AWS transit and network infrastructure, acting as the core gateway for all inter-account communication and outbound traffic to external services.
• Cost Optimization: Designing cost-effective solutions by selecting appropriate AWS services and implementing cost management strategies.
• High Availability and Disaster Recovery: Designing architectures for high availability and disaster recovery using AWS services.
• Performance Optimization: Tuning configurations and leveraging AWS services for optimal performance of applications and infrastructure.
• Monitoring and Logging: Implementing monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions using AWS CloudWatch and CloudTrail to ensure the health, performance, and security of AWS environments.
• Technical Leadership and Collaboration: Providing leadership, guidance, and mentorship to team members, collaborating with cross-functional teams.
• Continuous Learning and Innovation: Staying updated with the latest AWS services and best practices, driving innovation for improved efficiency and reliability of AWS solutions.

Experience required:

• Proven track record as an AWS Technical Architect
• Hands-on experience across AWS/public cloud environments
• Strong practical AWS knowledge across infrastructure, networking, security, and cloud operations
• Experience working closely with DevOps and CloudOps teams
• Proficiency in deploying Landing Zone, particularly Secure Landing Zone/PALZ and expertise in Control Tower and AWS Organizations.
• Practical experience in designing and implementing Continuous Integration and Deployment utilizing tools like GitHub Actions.
• Expertise in managing and maintaining secure AWS cloud environments and various AWS security services.
• Experience with authentication and authorization protocols such as OAUTH2, SAML2.0, and OIDC.
• Proficiency in designing and implementing cloud-native solutions, including serverless applications, containerised applications, CI/CD pipelines, Network Infrastructures like Transit Gateway and Direct Connect, Identity and Access Management, and programmable infrastructure.
• Knowledge and experience in infrastructure as code solutions using tools like Terraform, GitHub Actions, Python, Bash or PowerShell.
• Experience with network concepts such as VPC, Transit Gateways, Gateway Load Balancers, AWS Private Link, Endpoint Services, Route 53, IPAM, CIDR management, and hybrid networks.
• Proficiency in tools like Git/GitHub, Confluence, Jira, and ServiceNow.

If you'd like to discuss the AWS Technical Architect role in more detail, please send your updated CV to (url removed) and I will get in touch.