Cloud Test Architect: Migration & Drift Validation

AND Digital; West of England; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Pension 6% + 2%

Aviva healthcare

Flexibenefit £1000

Life Assurance

Income Protection

Eye care

Enhanced parental leave

Job summary

AND Digital is seeking an AWS Cloud Architect for a 12-month fixed-term engagement. You will govern configuration management and design end-to-end testing strategies for colocation migrations, ensuring state consistency across environments and alignment with production specs.

You will lead drift analysis, data masking compliance, and UAT governance while coordinating with business units to deliver stable, auditable cloud-enabled solutions.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in cloud architecture and AWS.
• Navigate ambiguity and solve complex problems collaboratively.
• Willingness to keep learning and stay current with tech.
• Strong communication skills with clients and teammates.
• Pragmatic, adaptable and outcome-focused.
• Enjoy sharing knowledge and helping others grow.
• Value low-ego collaboration within multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Drift analysis: compare migrated environments to identify configuration drift and fix.
• Monolith landing readiness: ensure colocation environment matches production specs.
• Data masking compliance: verify anonymisation rules for non-production data.
• Release coordination: enforce freeze windows and change controls for stability.
• Performance & latency testing: design and execute stress tests for heavy traffic.
• Regression & integration strategy: define test cases for post-migration workloads.
• UAT governance: coordinate business unit sign-offs and audits.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Stakeholder comms

Problem solving

Collaborative work

Learning mindset

Clear communicator

Outcome-focused

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

AND Digital is seeking an AWS Cloud Architect for a 12-month fixed-term engagement. You will govern configuration management and design end-to-end testing strategies for colocation migrations, ensuring state consistency across environments and alignment with production specs.

You will lead drift analysis, data masking compliance, and UAT governance while coordinating with business units to deliver stable, auditable cloud-enabled solutions.