Technical Architect - eSC/eDV Clearance

IBM; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 123,000 - 177,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Sabbatical programs

Paid parental leave

25 days holiday

Private medical insurance

Dental & Optical cover

Employee discounts

Pension plan

Job summary

IBM Consulting UK FutureNow seeks an experienced AWS Platform Technical Architect. You will design scalable, secure AWS architectures, align them to business needs and drive major platform decisions. You’ll lead cloud migrations, optimize costs and foster DevOps practices across delivery teams.

You will collaborate with development teams, guide automation through Terraform/CloudFormation, and contribute to cloud team growth including Nordcloud recruitment and technical evaluation of candidates.

Qualifications

• Hands-on AWS experience with EC2, S3, VPC, RDS and EKS.
• Terraform and IaC automation experience.
• Experience recruiting or hiring for cloud roles (Nordcloud).
• Strong Linux and VMware knowledge; secure, scalable cloud architectures.

Responsibilities

• Architect scalable, secure AWS solutions aligned to business needs.
• Design and configure core AWS services and monitor environments for HA/DR readiness.
• Lead security, cost optimization, and compliance practices across platforms.
• Drive cloud migration assessments, designs and execution.
• Build automated infrastructure via Terraform or CloudFormation.

Skills

AWS core services

Terraform

CloudFormation

Linux

VMware

DevOps

CI/CD

Security & compliance

Multi-account / landing zone

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

At IBM Consulting UK FutureNow, you’ll build a career at the forefront of hybrid cloud and AI, working with leading clients across the public and private sectors.

You’ll collaborate with top industry professionals, gain hands on experience with cutting edge technologies, and deliver solutions that create real business impact. From day one, you’ll work on meaningful, high profile programmes that stretch your skills and accelerate your growth.

We invest heavily in you—supporting continuous learning, in demand skills development, and long term career progression. You’ll thrive in a flexible, inclusive environment that values curiosity, encourages reinvention, and recognises what makes you unique.

We offer:

• Tools and policies to support your work-life balance from flexible working approaches, sabbatical programs, paid paternity leave, maternity leave and an innovative maternity returners scheme
• More traditional benefits, such as 25 days holiday (in addition to public holidays), private medical, dental & optical cover, online shopping discounts, an Employee Assistance Program, life assurance and a group pension plan through salary sacrifice.

In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

Your role and responsibilities

We’re looking for an AWS Platform Technical Architect to design and lead the delivery of scalable, secure and high‑performing AWS solutions. This is a high‑impact role where you’ll shape cloud architecture, drive major platform decisions and work with cutting‑edge AWS technologies that support mission‑critical services. You’ll also play a key part in recruiting and building strong cloud‑focused teams, including Nordcloud talent, to ensure the platform is delivered and operated to the highest standards.

As an AWS Technical Architect, you will design AWS‑based architectures that align to business requirements, ensuring scalability, reliability and security. You’ll bring deep expertise across core AWS services such as EC2, S3, VPC, RDS and EKS, along with strong experience in Linux and VMware. You will architect infrastructure, guide cloud migrations, optimise costs and ensure platform resilience through HA and DR configurations. Your skills in Terraform, AWS CloudFormation and DevOps practices will enable automated, consistent delivery across environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect scalable, secure and high‑availability AWS solutions aligned to business needs
• Design and configure EC2, S3, VPC, RDS, ELB/ALB and other core AWS services
• Monitor AWS environments, troubleshoot issues and ensure strong HA/DR readiness
• Implement and enforce security standards, compliance controls and best practices
• Optimise AWS spend through right‑sizing, usage analysis and cost‑effective design
• Drive cloud migration assessments, designs and execution
• Build and maintain automated infrastructure using Terraform or CloudFormation
• Collaborate closely with development teams on deployment and integration of AWS solutions
• Contribute to cloud team growth, including Nordcloud recruitment and technical evaluation of candidates
• Build and maintain automated infrastructure using Terraform or CloudFormation
• Collaborate closely with development teams on deployment and integration of AWS solutions
• Contribute to cloud team growth, including Nordcloud recruitment and technical evaluation of candidates
• Promote DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines and modern automation approaches across delivery teams
• Define and implement observability strategies including logging, monitoring and alerting (e.g. CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana)
• Provide technical leadership and governance through design reviews, architecture boards and best practice guidance
• Support incident response, root cause analysis and continuous improvement across platform operations

Required education

None

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Strong, hands‑on expertise with AWS services including EC2, S3, VPC, RDS and EKS
• Experience with Terraform and infrastructure‑as‑code automation
• Experience with Nordcloud recruitment or cloud‑focused hiring processes
• Strong knowledge of Linux and VMware
• Proven ability to design secure, scalable cloud architectures
• Experience operating HA/DR configurations and troubleshooting AWS environments
• Familiarity with DevOps practices and CI/CD workflows
• Experience with cloud migration projects across assessment, design and execution

This role is subject to pre-employment screening in line with the UK Government’s Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). An additional range of Personal Security Controls referred to as National Security Vetting (NVS) may apply, this could include meeting the eligibility requirements for The Security Check (SC) or Developed Vetting (DV).

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Experience with multi‑account AWS environments and landing zone design (e.g. AWS Organizations, Control Tower)
• Exposure to observability and monitoring tooling (e.g. CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack)
• Familiarity with security tooling and identity models (IAM, Zero Trust principles, secrets management)
• Experience working within regulated or enterprise environments, including governance forums (e.g. TDA, design authority)

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

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Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

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At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

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Job Title

Technical Architect - eSC/eDV Clearance Required

Job ID

118895

City / Township / Village

State / Province

Hampshire, Gloucestershire, London, City of, Manchester, Leicester

Country

United Kingdom

Work arrangement

Hybrid

Area of work

Infrastructure & Technology

Employment type

Regular

Position type

Professional

Up to 80% or 4 days a week (home on weekends - based on project requirements)

Company

Shift

General (daytime)

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