Senior AWS Migration Architect

Cititec; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 129,000 - 166,000; Full time

Job summary

Cititec is seeking a senior AWS Migration Architect for a 5-month contract in the UK. The role involves leading a large-scale VMware-to-AWS migration, modernising legacy Ingres/OpenROAD components, and delivering a secure, private AWS serverless architecture. Travel occasional; BPSS eligibility preferred.

You will lead design sessions, coordinate engineering teams and manage customer stakeholders to establish a repeatable migration approach and ensure successful delivery.

Qualifications

• Extensive AWS architecture and large-scale migration experience.
• Strong AWS networking, VPC, Direct Connect and landing zone design.
• Serverless architecture and relational database modernization.

Responsibilities

• Lead the migration of VMware-based infrastructure to AWS for a large public-sector program.
• Design and deliver a secure, private AWS serverless architecture.
• Establish a repeatable migration and modernization approach and lead engineering teams and stakeholders.

Skills

AWS architecture

Large-scale migration

Networking (VPC Direct Connect)

Serverless architecture

Stakeholder leadership

Public-sector experience

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

I'm working on a senior contract opportunity with a major public-sector transformation programme, requiring an experienced AWS Migration Architect to lead a large-scale migration from VMware to AWS.

• 5-month initial contract, with a strong possibility of extension
• UK-based, predominantly remote with occasional travel
• Immediate start (1–2 weeks)
• SC clearance preferred, or eligibility to obtain (BPSS required from day one)

The programme:

• Migration of approximately 200 Linux VMs from VMware to AWS across 50 VLANs.
• Modernisation of approximately 30 legacy Ingres database and OpenROAD applications.
• Design and delivery of a secure, private AWS serverless architecture.
• Establishing a repeatable migration and modernisation approach.

Key experience required:

• Extensive AWS architecture and large-scale migration experience.
• Strong AWS networking, VPC, Direct Connect and landing zone design.
• Serverless architecture and relational database modernisation.
• Experience leading technical design, engineering teams and customer stakeholders.

Desirable: Ingres, OpenROAD, Terraform, Ansible and AWS modernisation tooling experience.

I'm keen to speak with senior AWS architects who have led complex migration and modernisation programmes.

Please get in touch for further details.