AWS API Technical Architect

Job Title: AWS API Technical Architect
Rate: £575p/d via Umbrella
Duration: 3-6 months (flexible on end date)
Location: Remote
Clearance required: SC (active and used in the last 12 months)
Nationality requirement: No dual-nationality restrictions

Job Description:

We are looking for an AWS API Engineer/Architect to design secure, scalable, and well-integrated API and microservices architectures across multiple client applications and services.

Key responsibilities are broadly expected to include:

• Design serverless and microservices-based API architectures on AWS
• Define and apply RESTful API design patterns and integration standards
• Support system and data integration across distributed services
• Assess and address technical debt, recommending pragmatic modernisation approaches
• Work closely with product teams to design solutions that align to their roadmap and support their needs
• Support deployment planning, cutover activities, and post go live stabilisation
• Collaborate with cybersecurity and delivery teams to ensure secure, observable solutions
• Design the integration of applications with identity providers and secure access patterns

The services used across these systems are likely to include:

• AWS Services (ie API Gateway, Lambda, Aurora RDS Postgres, EKS, ECR, STS, Route 53, VPC)
• Kubernetes
• CI/CD (eg GitHub, Jenkins)
• Prometheus, Grafana
• ELK
• Apollo GraphQL, TypeScript
• AWS Config, AWS Macie, AWS Guard Duty, AWS Security Hub, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon CloudTrail