AWS Devops Lead/Architect

Join; Greater London; On-site; GBP 129,000 - 203,000; Full time

Job summary

Join is seeking a Senior AWS DevOps Lead (Architect) for a London-based, 3-month engagement. You will lead discovery workshops, assess existing environments, and define modernization roadmaps to migrate workloads to AWS.

The role demands hands-on architecture work and client-facing leadership across multiple geographies. The ideal candidate will design scalable AWS architectures, implement IaC with Terraform and CloudFormation, and drive CI/CD pipelines while guiding security, monitoring, and

Qualifications

• Senior AWS DevOps Architect with hands-on design experience and ability to lead discovery, assessment, solutioning, and implementation.
• Experience in cloud transformation programs across large enterprises is essential.
• Proven ability to engage client architects, infrastructure teams, and CXO stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery workshops and infrastructure assessments for cloud transformation programs.
• Define modernization roadmaps for on-premise and cloud environments.
• Design scalable, secure, resilient, cost-optimized AWS architectures.

Skills

AWS architecture

Landing Zone

Infrastructure discovery

Migration & modernization

Terraform

CloudFormation

Kubernetes (EKS)

Docker

CI/CD

Networking

Security

Monitoring

Tools

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Azure DevOps

Job description

Tasks

Job Title : Senior AWS DevOps Lead (Architect)

Experience :10+ Years Overall Experience

Location: London,

Duration: 3 months

Key Responsibilities

• Lead discovery workshops and infrastructure assessments for cloud transformation programs.
• Analyze existing on-premise and cloud environments and define modernization roadmaps.
• Design scalable, secure, resilient, and cost-optimized AWS architectures.
• Create high-level and low-level designs (HLD/LLD) for infrastructure and platform solutions.
• Lead migration planning, dependency analysis, and workload onboarding to AWS.
• Define Infrastructure as Code (IaC) standards using Terraform and CloudFormation.
• Design and implement CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Provide technical leadership across infrastructure, DevOps, security, and operations teams.
• Drive platform standardization, governance, and operational best practices.
• Act as a trusted advisor for customers during architecture reviews and solutioning discussions.

Requirements

Mandatory Skills

• AWS Architecture and Solution Design
• AWS Landing Zone & Multi-Account Strategy
• Infrastructure Discovery & Assessment
• Cloud Migration & Modernization
• Terraform (Mandatory)
• CloudFormation
• Kubernetes / Amazon EKS
• Docker
• CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps)
• Networking (VPC, Transit Gateway, VPN, Direct Connect)
• Security (IAM, Security Hub, GuardDuty, WAF)
• Monitoring (CloudWatch, Grafana, Prometheus)

Preferred AWS Services

• EC2, VPC, IAM, Route53
• ECS, EKS, Lambda
• S3, EFS, FSx
• RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB
• CloudWatch, CloudTrail
• Systems Manager
• AWS Organizations
• Control Tower

Certifications

• AWS Solutions Architect Professional (Preferred)
• AWS DevOps Engineer Professional
• AWS Security Specialty (Good to Have)

Ideal Candidate Profile

• Strong hands-on architect with the ability to perform discovery, assessment, solutioning, and implementation.
• Comfortable engaging with client architects, infrastructure teams, and CXO stakeholders.
• Able to define migration strategies, architecture patterns, and DevOps operating models.
• Hands-on technical expert, not just a coordinator or project manager.
• Experience supporting large enterprise cloud transformation programs across multiple geographies.