AWS Architect Cheltenham

CloudSecure Ltd.; Cheltenham; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Options scheme

Job summary

CloudSecure Ltd. is seeking a senior cloud architect in the United Kingdom to design and deliver cloud environments using Amazon Web Services, addressing critical security and performance challenges.

You will lead architectural discussions, work across greenfield and brownfield projects, and build strong relationships with customers and partners. The role emphasizes pragmatic engineering tradeoffs, hands-on design, and mentoring teams, with opportunities for certification and career growth in a

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading large AWS implementations or migrations.
• Hands-on design of cloud environments running critical workloads.
• Strong presentation and knowledge sharing across internal and external organisations.
• Ability to influence roadmaps and challenge established thinking when needed.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver cloud environments to address customers' challenges.
• Lead architectural discussions and design exercises.
• Develop, observe and critique cloud security practices.
• Build deep customer relationships and drive discussions with their technical and operational teams.
• Work with customers and other suppliers to gather and shape requirements.
• Collaborate on greenfield and brownfield projects across the portfolio.

Skills

AWS architecture

Cloud migrations

Team leadership

Presentation skills

Security practices

Stakeholder management

Tools

AWS

Job description

We are seeking a senior cloud architect to join our team that's building cloud services to support the UK's most pressing and interesting security challenges. The ideal candidate will have in-depth knowledge of Amazon Web Services, experience in large scale cloud migrations and proficiency in working with customers to understand and solve their compute and security challenges.

Responsibilities

Design and deliver cloud environments to address customers' challenges.

Work across a range of greenfield and brownfield projects.

Deliver technical excellence whilst making pragmatic engineering tradeoffs.

Lead architectural discussions and design exercises.

Develop, observe and critique cloud security practices.

Build deep customer relationships in their environment; drive discussions with their technical and operational teams.

Work with customers and other suppliers to gather and shape requirements.

Requirements

Proven experience leading large Amazon Web Services implementations or migrations in high-security environments.

Hands-on expertise in designing and building cloud computing environments running critical workloads.

Strong presentation and knowledge sharing skills with the ability to work effectively across internal and external organisations.

Able to build relationships with customers, influence their roadmap and challenge established thinking when needed.

Consulting skills to solve customer problems, and the ability to manage ambiguity.

Team leadership.

UK NATIONAL

AWS Certifications at Associate or above.

Competitive salary, bonus and options scheme.

Opportunities for further training and certification.

Collaborative and low bureaucracy work environment.

Flexible working arrangements.

About Us

CloudSecure specialise in developing software and cloud infrastructure for customers with critical security and performance needs. Our culture is high-agency, low-bureaucracy and encourages creative thinking. We are intensely meritocratic - if you add value you will be appropriately remunerated and given increased responsibility. By extension we reward intellectual curiosity; if there's a technology or role you're interested in, we'll help you get there.

We're growing fast but are founder owned so aren't beholden to investor targets, financial hurdles or trend chasing. One of our directors sums CloudSecure up by saying "We build cool stuff, for cool customers." People are the lifeblood of our business so if what we've written resonates, we'd love to hear from you.