AWS Cloud Architect: Scalable, Secure & Cost-Efficient

Freelio; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days vacation per year

Private medical insurance

Extra days leave for charity

Job summary

Accenture is a global professional services company delivering cloud, security and AI solutions. The AWS Architecture Specialist role in Manchester focuses on designing and implementing scalable cloud workloads, with emphasis on security, resilience and cost efficiency.

You will work with serverless, containerised and microservices patterns, tailor CI/CD pipelines, and collaborate with client teams to translate business needs into robust architectures, ensuring high availability and measurable

Qualifications

• Significant hands-on experience designing and implementing solutions using AWS cloud services.
• AWS Professional and/or Associate certification (e.g., Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer) is desirable.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement AWS workloads using modern cloud patterns such as serverless, containerised, and microservices architectures.
• Develop scalable application solutions aligned with best practice for performance, resilience, and cost efficiency.
• Configure and maintain CI/CD pipelines and automation frameworks to support rapid delivery.
• Apply cloud security principles, including identity and access management, encryption, and compliance controls.
• Optimise architectures for scalability, reliability, and operational excellence.
• Produce high-quality design documentation and contribute to architecture reviews.
• Execute testing strategies for functional and non-functional requirements (performance, security, reliability).
• Collaborate with clients and internal teams to deliver robust, cloud-first solutions.

Skills

AWS design

Serverless

CI/CD pipelines

DevOps practices

Cloud security

Architecture reviews

Performance optimization

Education

CS/Software Eng degree

Tools

CI/CD tools

AWS Console

Job description

Accenture is a global professional services company delivering cloud, security and AI solutions. The AWS Architecture Specialist role in Manchester focuses on designing and implementing scalable cloud workloads, with emphasis on security, resilience and cost efficiency.

You will work with serverless, containerised and microservices patterns, tailor CI/CD pipelines, and collaborate with client teams to translate business needs into robust architectures, ensuring high availability and measurable