Senior Cloud Architect (AWS)

Cloudscaler Limited; London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Cloud Architect specialized in AWS to lead transformative cloud projects. This role involves designing secure and scalable cloud architectures while ensuring compliance with best practices. You'll work closely with clients, providing technical governance and defining standards for cloud solutions. Join a forward-thinking company that values collaboration and innovation, offering bespoke development opportunities and a supportive work environment. If you're passionate about cloud technology and eager to make a significant impact, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Discretionary bonus scheme

25 days annual leave + 5 additional days for training

Life Assurance

Long Term Disability cover

24/7 GP access

Cycle To Work Scheme

Dog friendly office

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in AWS landing zones and cloud architecture.
• Strong understanding of security risks in AWS environments.

Responsibilities

• Design and govern the delivery of significant workloads on AWS.
• Architect secure, scalable, and resilient platforms for clients.

Skills

AWS Cloud Architecture

Infrastructure Design

Security Risk Mitigation

Technical Governance

IaC Structure

Client Engagement

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS Organizations

CloudTrail

SecurityHub

GuardDuty

IAM

Job description

Senior Cloud Architect (AWS)

Location: Central London – Hybrid. Onsite requirements can vary from one customer to another; however, 1-2 days per week onsite is normal for our teams, with some customers requiring up to 4 days per week onsite.

Salary: £120,000-£140,000

SC Clearance Requirements:

Due to working with a number of government bodies, SC clearance is required for our customer-facing teams. You do not need active SC clearance as we will undertake checks upon you joining, but you must be eligible to pass SC clearance. In future, DV clearance may be required, so the ability/willingness to pass DV clearance is advantageous but not essential.

About Us

We are experts in AWS landing zones, cloud risk mitigation, and cloud operating models; thought leaders working with public and private sector enterprise organisations to help them unlock the true value of cloud.

Why you should join us

We care about our people and truly believe that high-performing teams are created through openness, collaboration, and trust. We ensure that there are opportunities both inside and outside of work to collaborate, share ideas, and build connections. We recognise that everyone brings their own unique skills and experiences, so we regularly collaborate across all teams and functions, to build a truly inclusive culture, including team socials, quarterly company days, and monthly "town halls". Our learning and development opportunities are bespoke to each individual; helping you to advance through our transparent career development pathways and achieve your career goals.

What We're Looking For

We are looking for AWS Cloud Architects with extensive landing zone knowledge. For us, this means experience of designing and operating enterprise-scale landing zones within AWS. It also means you need an understanding of the key security risks that are present when operating workloads within AWS and how to design a best practice landing zone to mitigate these risks.

We are thought leaders, so our Architects need to be opinionated about IaC structure and modularisation, controls and guardrails, network patterns, and how to architect appropriate and scalable Cloud solutions with the ability to assess trade-offs with design options.

What You'll Be Doing

You will be working closely with our customers’ key stakeholders, designing and providing the technical governance over the delivery of significant workloads on the cloud.

You will be defining the infrastructure, network, and security design, along with the design of platform tooling services, and will set the technical standards that define what good looks like for all services, putting checks in place to ensure compliance.

• Understanding complex requirements and designing secure, scalable, and resilient platforms on AWS.

• Designing and providing the technical governance over the delivery of significant workloads on the cloud.

• Architecting complex systems and platforms, enabling them to run seamlessly at scale, including defining the infrastructure, network, and security design.

• Designing solutions to prevent, detect, and remediate key security risks that are present when using AWS.

• Developing and owning the enterprise cloud architecture; evaluating trends and technology.

• Leading client CCoE transformation, establishing RACI models and operational governance.

• Leading the client’s cloud control strategy, aligning metrics, observability, and governance across business.

• Ensuring adherence to Well-Architected principles across the client’s enterprise solutions.

• Overseeing the client’s cost optimisation strategy, whilst ensuring the development of a cost-aware culture.

• Ensuring the client’s enterprise security strategy, managing risks, compliance, and threat mitigation.

• Setting the technical standards that define what good looks like for all services and putting checks in place to ensure their compliance.

• Designing and delivering workloads using a wide range of AWS services including AWS Organizations, CloudTrail, SecurityHub, GuardDuty, IAM, and IAM Identity Center.

• Providing technical leadership to cross-functional teams, defining technical direction and strategy of teams and systems.

Benefits

• Discretionary bonus scheme.

• 25 days’ annual leave + 5 additional days for training/exams or volunteering.

• Travel and accommodation expensed where eligible in line with our expenses policy.

• Life Assurance.

• Long Term Disability cover.

• Employee Assist Programme for employee advice and support (including legal and counselling helpline).

• Health, Mental Health, Wellbeing, Financial, and Legal support.

• 24/7 GP access.

• Public holiday opt-out scheme giving you the option to work on public holidays creating the flexibility to enjoy your time off when it suits you.

• Individual training and development plans with online training and exam costs covered.

• Recruitment referral scheme – referral bonus if you introduce us to someone we then hire.

• Customer referral scheme – referral bonus if you introduce us to a new customer.

• Cycle To Work Scheme.

• Dog friendly office.

Interview Process

• Screening call with our Talent Acquisition team.

• 1st Interview - 30 minute remote interview with our hiring team.

• 2nd Interview - 60 minute remote technical interview with members of our architecture team.

• 3rd Interview - 60 minute in person interview with members of our Senior Leadership Team.

If you would like to join us on our adventure, please apply!

Cloudscaler are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, committed to equal opportunities regardless of gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ancestry, age, marital status, disability, parental status, religion or medical history.

If you require reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please let us know when you speak to our Talent Acquisition team or contact [e-mail] at the earliest opportunity.