Senior Cloud Architect: AWS, Kubernetes & Secure Containers

Cognizant; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellbeing programs

Job summary

Cognizant Consulting is seeking a Cloud Architect AWS - Kubernetes & Containerization Specialist to design, deploy and manage secure, scalable containerized applications on AWS for the Law Enforcement Cloud Platform (LECP). You will work with the LECP Head of Architecture, an EKS team and government stakeholders.

The role requires 10+ years in AWS, strong EKS and Terraform/CloudFormation skills, and the ability to obtain SC/NPPV3 clearance.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in AWS cloud architecture, with a strong background in government or public sector projects.
• Advanced expertise in core AWS services (EC2, VPC, IAM, Route 53) with emphasis on secure VPC design and IAM policy management.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes (AWS EKS) including cluster management and security policies.
• Terraform or CloudFormation for infrastructure automation and CI/CD pipelines (CodePipeline, Jenkins, GitLab).
• Active SC and NPPV3 clearance, or willingness to obtain it.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement highly available, scalable containerized apps on AWS using Kubernetes (EKS), ECS and Fargate.
• Ensure LECP solutions meet public sector security and compliance requirements (NCSC Cloud Security Principles, GDPR, ISO).
• Develop and maintain infrastructure as code with Terraform and CloudFormation; design automated CI/CD pipelines.
• Serve as a subject matter expert on AWS container services and guide teams on secure cloud operations.
• Set up monitoring and incident response using CloudWatch, ELK, Prometheus to meet SLAs.

Skills

AWS Cloud Architecture

Public sector experience

Security by design

Tools

Kubernetes (AWS EKS)

Terraform

AWS CloudFormation

Jenkins

GitLab

CodePipeline

CloudWatch

Prometheus

ELK/Grafana

Job description

Cognizant Consulting is seeking a Cloud Architect AWS - Kubernetes & Containerization Specialist to design, deploy and manage secure, scalable containerized applications on AWS for the Law Enforcement Cloud Platform (LECP). You will work with the LECP Head of Architecture, an EKS team and government stakeholders.

The role requires 10+ years in AWS, strong EKS and Terraform/CloudFormation skills, and the ability to obtain SC/NPPV3 clearance.