AWS Technical Architect

Hays Specialist Recruitment LLC

3 days ago

Role details

Contract type

Temporary contract

Employment type

Full-time (> 32 hours)

Working hours

Regular working hours

Languages

English

Remote

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Cloud Computing Security

DevOps

Identity and Access Management

Network Segmentation

Software Architecture

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Cloudformation

Terraform

My client is an instantly recognisable consultancy who require an AWS Technical Architect with Active SC & NPPV3 Clearance.

Key Requirements:

Proven commercial experience working as an AWS Technical Architect within the Public Sector.
Active SC & NPPV3 Clearance.
Extensive experience designing and operating enterprise-scale, multi-account AWS environments with deep knowledge of core services (eg VPC, IAM, EC2, EKS/ECS, Lambda, S3, RDS).
Proven ability to build landing zones, shared services, guardrails, and apply AWS Well-Architected Framework principles (security, reliability, performance, cost).
Strong experience delivering secure cloud architectures in regulated environments, including IAM, network segmentation, monitoring, and governance-by-design approaches.
Solid background in agile/DevOps environments with expertise in Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation, Terraform) and automation-led delivery.
Ability to ensure operational readiness, platform resilience, and support on-call/out-of-hours models.
Strong stakeholder management, ability to lead architectural decisions, clearly communicate complex concepts, and mentor engineers and architects.

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