Infrastructure Architect (AWS)
Cloud Infrastructure Architect – AWS Edge & Outposts
Location: Central London / Hybrid (2 Days On-Site)
Contract Model: Inside IR35
Day Rate: £800 - £900 / day (depending on experience)
Duration: 12 Months (Phased Multi-Year Transformation)
The Mandate:
Are you an elite AWS Infrastructure Architect looking to design cutting-edge hybrid cloud environments for one of London’s largest, highly complex infrastructure estates?
We are deploying a global, zero-touch deployment factory to modernise high-availability, low-latency edge environments. We need a hands-on Cloud Infrastructure Architect specializing in AWS Outposts, hybrid routing, and automated site provisioning to own the reference architectures and IaC templates driving this rollout.
What You’ll Be Building:
- Edge & Hybrid Architecture: Architecting multi-site AWS Outposts estates seamlessly integrated via Transit Gateway, Local Gateway routing, and custom ENI design.
- Zero-Touch IaC Factories: Designing standard and variable IaC site templates (Terraform / AWS CDK) that turn complex infrastructure provisioning into repeatable pipeline runs.
- High-Performance Storage & Data Planes: Defining storage, replication, and data-plane architectures optimized for ultra-low-latency, mission-critical workloads.
- Operational Excellence: Authoring infrastructure standards, resilience frameworks, and disaster recovery architectures across distributed hardware estates.
What We’re Looking For:
- AWS Edge Mastery: Hands-on experience with AWS Outposts ordering, installation, base configuration, and lifecycle management.
- Advanced Networking: Deep expertise across AWS VPC, Transit Gateway, Local Gateway routing, and ENI design.
- IaC Engine: Advanced proficiency in Terraform or AWS CDK for modular, immutable infrastructure provisioning.
- Certifications (Preferred): AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional or AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty.
- Nice-to-Haves: Exposure to Telco 5G/CNF cloud architecture, Cilium/eBPF pod networking, or ultra-low-latency financial/trading infrastructure.
Why Apply?
This is not an advisory oversight role—it’s a high-impact, practitioner-led engagement delivering mission-critical infrastructure transformation alongside elite engineering teams.