Senior AWS Cloud Architect (SC Cleared) — Remote

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

Job summary

SR2 | Socially Responsible Recruitment | Certified B Corporation seeks an experienced SC Cleared AWS Cloud Architect to lead secure AWS platform design and integration across identity, security, and DevSecOps. You will produce architecture artefacts, guide engineering teams, and ensure compliant, resilient cloud solutions in a remote-first, London-on-site context.

Key capabilities include IAM with Microsoft Entra ID, Terraform IaC, and threat monitoring.

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 and access-control policies.
• Terraform and IaC expertise with DevSecOps in CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience in cloud logging, monitoring and threat detection.
• Ability to design clear architecture decisions and communicate them.
• SC (essential) & NPPV3 clearance desirable.

Responsibilities

• Provide architectural leadership across an AWS-hosted platform.
• Translate business needs into technical and security requirements.
• Produce high-level designs and supporting documentation.
• Review designs, proposals and technical notes.
• Lead resolution of architecture, integration and platform issues.
• Design secure integration between Microsoft Entra ID and AWS.
• Embed automated security controls into Terraform and CI/CD pipelines.
• Develop monitoring and threat-detection capabilities.

Skills

AWS cloud architecture

Security architecture

Identity & access management

Terraform

DevSecOps

CI/CD pipelines

Threat monitoring

Architecture governance

Stakeholder management

Tools

Terraform

AWS

Keycloak

Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Job description

SR2 | Socially Responsible Recruitment | Certified B Corporation seeks an experienced SC Cleared AWS Cloud Architect to lead secure AWS platform design and integration across identity, security, and DevSecOps. You will produce architecture artefacts, guide engineering teams, and ensure compliant, resilient cloud solutions in a remote-first, London-on-site context.

Key capabilities include IAM with Microsoft Entra ID, Terraform IaC, and threat monitoring.