Responsibilities
- Cloud solution design
- Design scalable, secure and highly available architectures using AWS services such as EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, IAM, VPC and CloudFront
- Choose services based on business requirements, performance needs and cost
- Architecture governance and standards
- Define and enforce cloud architecture best practices, patterns and standards
- Make sure solutions follow security frameworks, compliance rules, IAM principles and the AWS Well-Architected Framework
- Technical leadership
- Give technical direction to engineering teams, developers, DevOps engineers and data specialists
- Review solution designs, perform architectural assurance and guide teams through implementation challenges
- Security and compliance
- Implement security controls including IAM policies, encryption, network segmentation, monitoring and threat detection
- Ensure compliance with GDPR, ISO27001 and PCI DSS through AWS-native tools and architectural controls
- Infrastructure as Code
- Lead adoption of IaC using Terraform, CloudFormation or CDK
- Standardise reusable templates and modules for consistent, repeatable deployments across environments
- Performance and cost optimisation
- Monitor workloads with CloudWatch, Trusted Advisor and Cost Explorer
- Optimise for performance, reliability, cost efficiency and operational excellence
- Cloud migration and modernisation
- Define migration strategies including rehosting, refactoring, replatforming and containerisation
- Design modern architectures involving microservices, serverless, APIs and event-driven patterns
- Stakeholder engagement
- Act as the technical counterpart to product owners, business stakeholders and delivery managers
- Explain complex cloud concepts in clear, non-technical language
- Troubleshooting and escalation
- Provide advanced support for complex issues across application, infrastructure and integration layers
- Lead root cause analysis for high-priority incidents involving AWS workloads
- Continuous improvement and innovation
- Stay current with new AWS services and architectural trends
- Find opportunities to modernise, automate, simplify or improve existing cloud environments
Rate:
£761/day
Location:
United Kingdom
IR35 Status:
Inside
Remote Status:
Remote
Industry:
Data & Analytics
Seniority Level:
Senior