AWS Solutions Architect

Salary: £38,500 - 66,500 per year

Requirements:

• 3 to 5 years of experience in a solutions architecture, cloud engineering, or technical consulting role, with a strong focus on AWS.
• Demonstrable experience designing and delivering cloud migration projects, including lift-and-shift, re-platforming, and hybrid connectivity scenarios.
• Solid grounding in AWS networking: VPCs, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, route tables, security groups, and hybrid network design.
• Working knowledge of AWS security services and best practices, including IAM, GuardDuty, Security Hub, and CloudTrail, with experience designing for compliance in regulated environments.
• Hands-on experience with containerised workloads on AWS, including EKS or ECS, and familiarity with modern application deployment patterns.
• Experience contributing to pre-sales activities, including scoping, estimating, and producing technical proposals or SOWs.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present technical concepts clearly to a range of audiences.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect at Associate level as a minimum. Professional level certification is strongly preferred.
• Willingness to travel across the UK and Ireland to support client engagements.
• Right to work in the UK or Ireland.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with the sales team on pre-sales engagements, leading discovery sessions, shaping technical solutions, and producing architecture proposals and statements of work.
• Design and deliver AWS cloud solutions across migration, modernisation, networking, and security workstreams, ensuring architecture decisions are grounded in client requirements and best practice.
• Lead or contribute to cloud migration projects, including workload assessment, migration planning, tooling configuration (MGN, DMS), and cutover execution.
• Architect secure, well-governed environments covering landing zones, IAM frameworks, network topology, and compliance controls, particularly for clients in regulated industries.
• Work with clients on container and modern application architectures, advising on EKS, ECS, and serverless patterns where appropriate.
• Produce clear, accurate technical documentation, including architecture diagrams, design decisions, runbooks, and handover materials that the client and delivery team can actually use.
• Act as a trusted technical advisor throughout the engagement lifecycle, managing client expectations and flagging risks early.
• Support more junior engineers and architects on the team, sharing knowledge and helping build collective capability.
• Stay current with the AWS platform and contribute to Presidios internal practice through reusable assets, lessons learned, and technical community participation.

Technologies:

• AI
• AWS
• Architect
• Cloud
• DMS
• IAM
• Support
• Network
• Security
• Serverless
• CTO

More:

We are Presidio, a trusted technology partner helping organizations across industries with AI-driven analytics, cloud solutions, cybersecurity, networking, digital transformation, and cloud computing. We are looking for an AWS Solutions Architect to join our UKI team, working across client engagements from early-stage solutioning through hands-on delivery. You will work closely with architects, engineers, and sales professionals, reporting to the Pre-sales & Cloud Engineering Director. We offer a culture of trailblazers and collaborators, a commitment to hiring from all backgrounds, and a focus on innovation, inclusion, and real impact. Our work supports clients globally, and applications are accepted on a rolling basis.

last updated 36 week of 2026