AWS Architect

Salary: £100,000 - 100,000 per year

Requirements:

• Significant commercial experience designing AWS cloud architectures.
• Proven experience delivering large AWS implementations and/or migrations.
• Strong hands-on understanding of cloud infrastructure supporting critical workloads.
• Experience working within high-security, defence, government or similarly regulated environments.
• Strong understanding of AWS security architecture and cloud security principles.
• The ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong customer-facing / consulting skills.
• Experience influencing technical roadmaps and challenging existing approaches where appropriate.
• Leadership capability and the confidence to take ownership of technical decisions.
• AWS certification at Associate level or above would be advantageous.
• Current Enhanced Developed Vetting (eDV) clearance is essential; we will consider DV candidates willing to undergo eDV.

Responsibilities:

• Design and deliver secure AWS cloud environments supporting business-critical and highly sensitive workloads.
• Lead architectural discussions, technical workshops and design exercises.
• Work across both greenfield and brownfield cloud programmes.
• Support and lead large-scale AWS implementations and cloud migrations.
• Understand customer requirements and translate them into pragmatic technical solutions.
• Work closely with engineering, security and operational teams.
• Review and challenge cloud security approaches and architectural decisions.
• Help customers shape technical roadmaps and make sensible engineering trade-offs.
• Build strong relationships with senior technical and operational stakeholders.
• Provide technical leadership across complex cloud programmes.

Technologies:

• AWS
• Cloud
• Support
• Security
• Architect

More:

We are a rapidly growing UK technology business delivering cutting-edge solutions into some of the countrys most complex and security-sensitive environments. We operate with very little bureaucracy, giving technically capable people genuine autonomy and influence. We offer a package including a £100,000 to £120,000 salary, discretionary bonus, benefits, further training and certification, flexible/hybrid working, exposure to highly complex AWS environments, and significant technical autonomy and influence. This is an opportunity to join an ambitious, technically led company working on next-generation national defence and security technologies where good ideas carry weight and strong performers are trusted to get on with their jobs.

last updated 34 week of 2026