AWS Architect

Talantir; Coventry; Hybrid; GBP 59,000 - 73,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Work from home option

Office or office optional

34 days annual leave

Defined benefit pension

Innovation day per sprint

Ongoing learning and development

Collaborative team environment

Job summary

Talantir is seeking an AWS Architect/Engineer to lead design and implementation of best-practice AWS cloud solutions across multi-account estates. You will publish artefacts using IaC, partner with dev teams to drive standardisation, automation, and cloud-native adoption, and act as an AWS SME on security, networking, and service adoption.

You will drive architecture reviews, support engineers, and oversee cloud infrastructure strategies aligned with AWS advancements, in a hybrid work setup.

Qualifications

• 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

Responsibilities

• 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

Job description

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