AWS Architect

We're looking for a skilled AWS Architect or experienced AWS Engineer to join our growing team. This is a crucial role where you'll lead the design and implementation of best-practice AWS cloud solutions that support the future direction of our industry-leading recruitment businesses and new enterprises.

As an AWS Architect/Engineer, you will:

Lead technical design and architecture of AWS solutions across multi-account estates
Define, develop, and publish architectural artefacts using Infrastructure-as-Code
Partner with development teams to drive standardisation, automation, and cloud-native adoption
Conduct architecture reviews and continuously improve platform architecture based on AWS advancements
Support engineering teams with optimisation, issue resolution and troubleshooting
Act as a subject matter expert on AWS security, networking, and service adoption

The successful AWS Solution Architect/Engineer will have:

Proven experience shaping cloud architecture strategies
Expertise in AWS reference architectures, patterns, and platform design
DevOps knowledge and experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation tooling
Excellent communication skills, with a confident ability to engage stakeholders at all levels
A strong grasp of AWS security models, policies, and network configurations
Experience working in Agile delivery environments

It would be a bonus if you also have:

AWS certifications (Solutions Architect Associate/Professional or AWS speciality certifications)
Experience of: LZA, DevOps, EKS; Autoscaling/Karpenter; CloudWatch; system and network performance monitoring; cost and performance optimisation; serverless; Aurora and RDS databases; Blue/Green deployments
Experience mentoring engineers

What's in it for you:

Up to £66k salary plus benefits
Ability to work from home and/or in the office
34 days annual leave (including 4 customary days) plus options to buy more annual leave or carry over unused annual leave, plus bank holidays
Generous Defined Benefit (DB) pension scheme
Access to internal communities for wellbeing and innovation, including 1 innovation day per sprint to work on innovative personal projects that align with company goals
Ongoing learning and development
A great work environment with a friendly and supportive team
The opportunity to lead the cloud infrastructure strategy that will underpin our future successes

Person spec

Proactive ownership and accountability traits strong
Independent thinkers and strong self-reliance
Works well in a team
Happy to lead as well as respond to developers and testers and take their requirements and deliver working solutions
Strong strategic and tactical abilities, i.e. experience of writing multi-year cloud strategies as well as 1-6 month roadmaps
Experience of mentoring and coaching people in their team

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AWS Architect

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