AWS Devops Lead /Architect

Join; Greater London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Join in London is seeking a Senior AWS DevOps Lead (Architect) for a 3+ month engagement. The role focuses on leading cloud transformation efforts, modernizing environments, and delivering scalable, secure AWS architectures. You will drive IaC standards, migration planning, and DevOps practices across teams.

Ideal candidates bring hands-on expertise in Terraform, CloudFormation, EKS, CI/CD, and security tooling, with experience supporting large enterprise transformations globally.

Qualifications

• Experience in AWS architecture design and solution delivery.
• Experience with landing zone and multi-account strategy.
• Proven ability to discover, assess and define cloud modernization roadmaps.
• Hands-on Terraform and CloudFormation implementation and governance.
• Experience in CI/CD pipeline design and deployment automation.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

AWS Architecture

Landing Zone

Infra Discovery

Migration & Modernization

Terraform

CloudFormation

Kubernetes / EKS

Docker

CI/CD

Networking

Security

Monitoring

Job description

Tasks

Job Title : Senior AWS DevOps Lead (Architect)

Location: London

Duration: 3 months+ with possible extension

10+ years of experience

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.