Cloud Architect

Cloud Architect Duration - 6-12 months London - Remote £700 - £795 per day inside IR35 - umbrella Active SC cleared or eligible candidates will be considered Role overview/requirements:

Design and maintain secure, scalable, resilient, and highly available AWS cloud architectures.<br />Define and implement Zero Trust architecture principles, including identity-centric access, least privilege, strong authentication, network segmentation, and continuous verification.<br />Design and govern multi-account AWS environments, including account structures, organisational units, guardrails, Service Control Policies, security controls, and account provisioning.<br />Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code best practices.<br />Develop reusable Terraform modules, automation patterns, and deployment standards.<br />Support and enhance enterprise landing zone capabilities, preferably using AWS Landing Zone Accelerator (LZA).<br />Design AWS networking solutions including VPCs, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, VPN, routing, DNS, firewalls, private connectivity, and network segmentation.<br />Work with AWS Organizations, Control Tower, IAM, SCPs, security services, logging, and compliance controls.<br />Integrate infrastructure automation with CI/CD pipelines and engineering delivery processes.<br />Work closely with engineering teams to troubleshoot issues, solve technical problems, and turn architectural designs into working solutions.<br />Take an active role in delivery and implementation, rather than operating solely at a high-level architecture or advisory level.<br />Participate in technical design reviews, proof-of-concepts,solution validation, and platform improvements.<br />Present architecture, technical designs, recommendations, and trade-offs clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.<br />Communicate complex technical concepts in a clear, practical, and outcome-focused manner.<br />Review existing AWS environments and recommend improvements across security, resilience, performance, operability, and cost optimisation.<br />Produce architecture documentation, standards, reference patterns, decision records, and technical roadmaps.

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