AWS Cloud Solution Architect — Strategic & Practical

Total Marketing Support Limited; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 95,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

DS Smith in London seeks an experienced AWS Cloud Domain Solution Architect to lead enterprise cloud design within the Solution Architecture & Design team. You will translate business needs into secure, scalable AWS architectures and collaborate with stakeholders, technology teams and partners to drive cloud transformation.

You’ll govern architecture documentation, provide technical oversight for third-party suppliers and guide engineers in IaC using Terraform and CloudFormation, with a

Qualifications

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect certification required.
• Proven experience designing cloud-based solutions on AWS.
• Experience across cloud, infrastructure, networking, data and DevSecOps.
• Strong security principles in cloud architecture.
• Experience delivering solutions in multinational organisations.
• Ability to translate business requirements into technical architecture.
• Experience with IaC tooling (Terraform or CloudFormation).

Responsibilities

• Acting as AWS domain SME across the enterprise.
• Designing secure, scalable, cost-effective AWS solutions aligned with business objectives.
• Maintaining a security-first approach across architecture activities.
• Providing architecture documentation, high-level and low-level designs.
• Overseeing third-party suppliers delivering cloud and digital services.
• Leading technical workshops and knowledge-sharing sessions.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Communication

Cloud architecture

AWS

DevSecOps

IaC concepts

Education

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate or Professional

Tools

Terraform

AWS CloudFormation

EC2

S3

Lambda

RDS

VPC

IAM

Job description

DS Smith in London seeks an experienced AWS Cloud Domain Solution Architect to lead enterprise cloud design within the Solution Architecture & Design team. You will translate business needs into secure, scalable AWS architectures and collaborate with stakeholders, technology teams and partners to drive cloud transformation.

You’ll govern architecture documentation, provide technical oversight for third-party suppliers and guide engineers in IaC using Terraform and CloudFormation, with a