Remote AWS Cloud Architect – SC Cleared DevSecOps Lead

SR2 | Socially Responsible Recruitment | Certified B Corporation; Basingstoke; Hybrid; GBP 101,000 - 111,000; Full time

Job summary

SR2 | Socially Responsible Recruitment | Certified B Corporation is seeking an SC-cleared AWS Cloud Architect for a 6-month contract with remote-first flexibility and occasional London onsite. This senior role focuses on secure cloud platform development, identity security, DevSecOps and technical assurance.

You will lead architecture across AWS, collaborate with engineering and security teams, and produce artefacts, designs and security integration plans to strengthen platform resilience and

Qualifications

• Strong AWS cloud and security architecture experience.
• Experience designing secure, resilient enterprise cloud platforms.
• Excellent knowledge of identity and access management, including Microsoft Entra ID.
• Experience with privileged identity management, conditional access and access-control policies.
• Strong IaC experience, particularly Terraform.
• Knowledge of DevSecOps practices and security automation within CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience designing cloud logging, monitoring and threat-detection capabilities.
• Ability to create architecture designs and communicate technical decisions clearly.
• Strong stakeholder-management and technical-assurance experience.
• SC (essential) & NPPV3 Clearance (desirable)

Responsibilities

• Provide architectural oversight across an AWS-hosted platform.
• Translate business needs into traceable technical and security requirements.
• Produce high-level designs, architecture decisions and supporting technical documentation.
• Review solution designs, supplier proposals and technical notes.
• Lead the resolution of architecture, integration and platform-level issues.
• Identify technical risks, security weaknesses and areas of technical debt.
• Design secure integration between Microsoft Entra ID and AWS.
• Develop conditional-access, privileged-access and approval policies.
• Improve the resilience and availability of identity services, including Keycloak and OTP solutions.
• Embed automated security controls into Terraform and CI/CD pipelines.
• Design security monitoring using services such as AWS Security Lake, CloudWatch and Microsoft Defender for Cloud.
• Support threat detection through centralised logging, tailored alerts and anomaly monitoring.
• Share knowledge and provide technical guidance to engineering teams.

Skills

IAM & Entra ID

Security architecture

Architecture design

Threat monitoring

Stakeholder mgmt

Communication of decisions

SC clearance

DevSecOps mindset

Technical assurance

Cloud identity integration

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Keycloak

Microsoft Entra ID

CloudWatch

Security Lake

Defender for Cloud

Job description

SR2 | Socially Responsible Recruitment | Certified B Corporation is seeking an SC-cleared AWS Cloud Architect for a 6-month contract with remote-first flexibility and occasional London onsite. This senior role focuses on secure cloud platform development, identity security, DevSecOps and technical assurance.

You will lead architecture across AWS, collaborate with engineering and security teams, and produce artefacts, designs and security integration plans to strengthen platform resilience and