Senior AWS Solutions Architect – Public Sector (UK)

International Business Machines Corporation; Leicester; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Private medical

Pension plan

Maternity/paternity leave

Career progression

Job summary

IBM Consulting UK FutureNow 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.

You will translate complex business and technical requirements into robust AWS designs that align with UK government security standards, MOD requirements and cloud architecture best practices, working with clients, security specialists and delivery teams.

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing secure, scalable AWS architectures for public sector workloads.
• Experience delivering cloud solutions in UK public sector/defence contexts.
• Strong security by design and compliance knowledge (UK government/MOD).

Responsibilities

• Design secure, scalable AWS architectures for government and defence workloads.
• Translate requirements into robust AWS designs aligning with government standards.
• Collaborate with security specialists, delivery stakeholders and client teams.

Skills

AWS core services

VPC networking

Terraform

CloudFormation

CI/CD

Security by design

Public sector security

UK SC clearance

MOD requirements

Disaster recovery

ECS/EKS/Lambda

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

KMS

GuardDuty

Security Hub

AWS Config

Direct Connect

Transit Gateway

Job description

IBM Consulting UK FutureNow 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.

You will translate complex business and technical requirements into robust AWS designs that align with UK government security standards, MOD requirements and cloud architecture best practices, working with clients, security specialists and delivery teams.