SC Cleared AWS Cloud Architect — Remote, 6-Month Contract

SR2 | Socially Responsible Recruitment | Certified B Corporation; Stockport; On-site; GBP 101,000 - 111,000; Full time

Job summary

SR2 is seeking an experienced SC Cleared AWS Cloud Architect to lead security-focused architecture across an AWS-hosted platform. The role involves cloud integration, identity security, DevSecOps, threat monitoring and technical assurance within a senior, hands-on capacity.

You will craft architecture artefacts, collaborate with engineering, infrastructure and security teams, and drive secure, scalable designs with emphasis on Entra ID integration and policy development.

Qualifications

• Proven AWS cloud and security architecture experience.
• Experience designing secure, resilient enterprise cloud platforms.
• Strong knowledge of identity and access management (Microsoft Entra ID).
• Experience with privileged identity management and access-control policies.
• Solid Infrastructure as Code experience, especially Terraform.
• Awareness of DevSecOps and security automation in CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience designing cloud logging, monitoring and threat-detection capabilities.
• Ability to create architecture designs and clearly communicate decisions.
• Strong stakeholder-management and technical-assurance experience.
• SC (essential) & NPPV3 clearance desirable.

Responsibilities

• Provide architecture leadership across an AWS-hosted platform.
• Translate business needs into technical and security requirements.
• Produce high-level designs and supporting technical documentation.
• Review solution designs and supplier proposals.
• Lead resolution of architecture and platform-level issues.
• Identify technical risks, security weaknesses and debt.
• Design secure integration between Microsoft Entra ID and AWS.
• Develop conditional-access, privileged-access and approval policies.
• Improve resilience of identity services (Keycloak, OTP).
• Embed automated security controls into Terraform and CI/CD pipelines.
• Design security monitoring with AWS Security Lake and CloudWatch.
• Support threat detection via centralized logging and alerts.
• Share knowledge and provide guidance to engineering teams.

Skills

AWS architecture

Security architecture

Identity & access management

Privileged identity management

Terraform

DevSecOps

Logging & threat-detection

Stakeholder management

SC/NPPV3 clearance

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Keycloak

Microsoft Entra ID

CloudWatch

Defender for Cloud

Job description

SR2 is seeking an experienced SC Cleared AWS Cloud Architect to lead security-focused architecture across an AWS-hosted platform. The role involves cloud integration, identity security, DevSecOps, threat monitoring and technical assurance within a senior, hands-on capacity.

You will craft architecture artefacts, collaborate with engineering, infrastructure and security teams, and drive secure, scalable designs with emphasis on Entra ID integration and policy development.