Senior AWS Cloud Architect – Public Sector & Security

International Business Machines Corporation; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working approaches

25 days holiday

Private medical

Dental & optical cover

Employee Assistance Program

Group pension plan through salary Sacr

Job summary

IBM is seeking an experienced AWS Solutions Architect to support its UK Public Sector account, delivering secure, scalable and resilient cloud solutions across government and defence environments. The role will play a key part in designing and implementing cloud architectures that support digital transformation, application modernisation and the delivery of mission-critical services.

Working closely with public sector clients, technical teams, security specialists and delivery stakeholders, the

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing secure, scalable AWS cloud architectures in UK public sector or defence environments.
• Strong knowledge of AWS core services and security governance requirements.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, cloud migrations and Well-Architected Framework.
• UK SC Security Clearance or ability to obtain is required.

Responsibilities

• Design secure, scalable AWS cloud architectures across government and defence environments.
• Translate complex requirements into robust technical designs aligned with security standards.
• Lead infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines and migration efforts.
• Collaborate with security specialists, delivery teams and client stakeholders.

Skills

AWS

Cloud architecture

Security

Terraform

CI/CD

Containerization

VPC networking

CloudFormation

EC2

ECS/EKS

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

AWS Config

CI/CD pipelines

GuardDuty

Job description

IBM is seeking an experienced AWS Solutions Architect to support its UK Public Sector account, delivering secure, scalable and resilient cloud solutions across government and defence environments. The role will play a key part in designing and implementing cloud architectures that support digital transformation, application modernisation and the delivery of mission-critical services.

Working closely with public sector clients, technical teams, security specialists and delivery stakeholders, the