Cloud Architect

Job title: Cloud Architect Contract: 12 month Location: London (as and when required) :

• Design and maintain secure, scalable, resilient, and highly available AWS cloud architectures.
• Define and implement Zero Trust architecture principles, including identity-centric access, least privilege, strong authentication, network segmentation, and continuous verification.
• Design and govern multi-account AWS environments, including account structures, organizational units, guardrails, Service Control Policies, security controls, and account provisioning.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code best practices.
• Develop reusable Terraform modules, automation patterns, and deployment standards.
• Support and enhance enterprise landing zone capabilities, preferably using AWS Landing Zone Accelerator (LZA).
• Design AWS networking solutions including VPCs, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, VPN, routing, DNS, firewalls, private connectivity, and network segmentation.
• Work with AWS Organizations, Control Tower, IAM, SCPs, security services, logging, and compliance controls.
• Integrate infrastructure automation with CI/CD pipelines and engineering delivery processes.
• Work closely with engineering teams to troubleshoot issues, solve technical problems, and turn architectural designs into working solutions.
• Take an active role in delivery and implementation, rather than operating solely at a high-level architecture or advisory level.
• Participate in technical design reviews, proof-of-concepts, solution validation, and platform improvements.
• Present architecture, technical designs, recommendations, and trade-offs clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Communicate complex technical concepts in a clear, practical, and outcome-focused manner.
• Review existing AWS environments and recommend improvements across security, resilience, performance, operability, and cost optimization.
• Produce architecture documentation, standards, reference patterns, decision records, and technical roadmaps.