AWS Technical Architect — Remote, SC Cleared, London

Contract: +6 months +

Fully remote

Outside IR35

£550 - £650 a day

SC cleared role – current active clearance is essential

• Architect high‑level customer requirements into practical, secure, and production‑ready AWS solutions.
• Work closely with CloudOps, DevOps, engineering teams, and customer stakeholders to design scalable, resilient, secure and cost‑effective cloud platforms.
• Lead solution design covering infrastructure, application architecture, security and integration patterns.
• Champion an automation‑first mindset with Terraform IaC and modern automation tools.
• Assist with cloud migration of on‑premises infrastructure and applications to AWS.
• Implement security best practices and compliance standards within AWS environments, including identity and access management, encryption and network security.
• Establish central AWS transit and network infrastructure, acting as the core gateway for inter‑account communication and outbound traffic.
• Design cost‑effective solutions by selecting appropriate AWS services and implementing cost management strategies.
• Design architectures for high availability and disaster recovery using AWS services.
• Tune configurations and leverage AWS services for optimal performance.
• Implement monitoring, logging and alerting with AWS CloudWatch and CloudTrail.
• Provide technical leadership, guidance and mentorship to team members while collaborating with cross‑functional teams.
• Stay updated with the latest AWS services and best practices, driving innovation for improved efficiency and reliability.

• Proven track record as an AWS Technical Architect.
• Hands‑on experience across AWS/public cloud environments.
• Strong practical AWS knowledge spanning 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 designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines using 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 cloud‑native solutions, including serverless applications, containerised applications, CI/CD pipelines, network infrastructures like Transit Gateway and Direct Connect, IAM and programmable infrastructure.
• Knowledge of infrastructure as code solutions with 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 with tools like Git/GitHub, Confluence, Jira and ServiceNow.