Senior Cloud Architect (AWS) (Multiple)

Job Overview

We're seeking an experienced Cloud Architect with AWS expertise to join our team in Central London. This is a hybrid position requiring 1-2 days per week onsite, with some customers requiring up to 4 days per week. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience designing and operating enterprise-scale landing zones within AWS.

Compensation

Salary: £120,000-£140,000

This senior-level position offers a competitive salary package commensurate with experience and qualifications.

Key Responsibilities

Cloud Architecture & Design

• Understanding complex requirements and designing secure, scalable and resilient platforms on AWS
• Designing and providing the technical governance over the delivery of significant workloads on the cloud
• Architecting complex systems and platforms, enabling them to run seamlessly at scale, including defining the infrastructure, network, and security design
• Designing solutions to prevent, detect and remediate key security risks that are present when using AWS

Enterprise Cloud Strategy

• Developing and owning the enterprise cloud architecture; evaluating trends and technology
• Leading client CCoE transformation, establishing RACI models and operational governance
• Leading the client's cloud control strategy, aligning metrics, observability, and governance across business
• Ensuring adherence to Well Architected principles across the client's enterprise solutions
• Overseeing the client's cost optimization strategy, whilst ensuring the development of a cost-aware culture
• Ensuring the client's enterprise security strategy, managing risks, compliance, and threat mitigation

Technical Standards & Leadership

• Setting the technical standards that define what good looks like for all services and put checks in place to ensure their compliance
• Designing and delivering workloads using a wide range of AWS services including; AWS Organizations, CloudTrail, SecurityHub, GuardDuty, IAM and IAM Identity Center
• Providing technical leadership to cross-functional teams, defining technical direction and strategy of teams and systems

Requirements

Technical Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing and operating enterprise-scale landing zones within AWS
• Strong understanding of key security risks present when operating workloads within AWS
• Expertise in designing best practice landing zones to mitigate security risks
• Opinionated approach to IaC structure and modularisation, controls and guardrails, network patterns
• Ability to architect appropriate and scalable Cloud solutions with the capacity to assess trade-offs with design options

Clearance Requirements

• SC clearance is required for customer facing teams
• Active SC clearance not required initially as checks will be undertaken upon joining
• Must be eligible to pass SC clearance
• DV clearance may be required in future; ability/willingness to pass DV clearance is advantageous but not essential

About the Company

We are experts in AWS landing zones, cloud risk mitigation and cloud operating models; thought leaders working with public and private sector enterprise organisations to help them unlock the true value of cloud.

Our Culture

We care about our people and truly believe that high-performing teams are created through openness, collaboration and trust. We ensure that there are opportunities both inside and outside of work to collaborate, share ideas and build connections.

We recognise that everyone brings their own unique skills and experiences, so we regularly collaborate across all teams and functions, to build a truly inclusive culture, including team socials, quarterly company days, and monthly "town halls".

Professional Development

Recognising that everyone brings their own unique skills and experiences, our learning and development opportunities are bespoke to each individual; helping you to advance through our transparent career development pathways and achieve your career goals.

Benefits

• Discretionary bonus scheme
• 25 days' annual leave + 5 additional days for training/exams or volunteering
• Travel and accommodation expensed where eligible in line with our expenses policy
• Life Assurance
• Long Term Disability cover
• Employee Assist Programme for employee advice and support (including legal and counselling helpline)
• Health, Mental Health, Wellbeing, Financial and Legal support
• 24/7 GP access
• Public holiday opt-out scheme giving you the option to work on public holidays creating the flexibility to enjoy your time off when it suits you
• Individual training and development plans with online training and exam costs covered
• Recruitment referral scheme – referral bonus if you introduce us to someone we then hire
• Customer referral scheme – referral bonus if you introduce us to a new customer
• Cycle To Work Scheme
• Dog friendly office