AWS Application Migration Architect - SC cleared
Initialize IT
Charing Cross, United Kingdom
yesterday
Role details
Contract type
Temporary contract Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours) Working hours
Regular working hours Languages
English Experience level
IntermediateJob location
Remote
Charing Cross, United Kingdom
Tech stack
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Audit Trail
Azure
Bash
Cloud Engineering
Continuous Integration
Identity and Access Management
Python
Octopus Deploy
Prometheus
Data Streaming
Data Logging
Scripting (Bash/Python/Go/Ruby)
Computer Network Technologies
Istio
Grafana
Multi-Cloud
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Cloudformation
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Kubernetes
Opsworks
Functional Programming
Cloudwatch
Terraform
Legacy Systems
Requirements
- 5+ years cloud architecture experience; 2+ years hands-on AWS migrations.
- AWS Solutions Architect Professional certification or equivalent.
- Strong understanding of AWS landing zone concepts and core AWS services including S3, VPC, IAM, KMS, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, AWS Config, EC2, RDS, Lambda, ECS, EKS, and core networking/security services.
- Experience assessing Legacy applications and translating current-state findings into target-state architecture, migration patterns, and operating model requirements.
- Experience designing application landing patterns across AWS compute, storage, networking, identity, data, integration, observability, backup, and support services.
- Experience with Terraform/CloudFormation and migration tooling (MGN, DMS).
- Experience producing application assessment packs, as-is and to-be architecture artefacts, migration roadmaps, architecture decision records, transition-state designs, and operational handover documentation.
- Scripting ability (Python/Bash).
- Excellent stakeholder communication skills.
- Multi-cloud background (Azure/GCP).
- Experience in regulated industries.
- CI/CD pipeline design experience.
- Experience with Kubernetes platform tooling such as Argo CD, Flux, Istio, External Secrets, Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry.
- Prior Legacy-to-cloud migration in a large enterprise environment.
AWS Application Migration Architect - SC cleared to assess Legacy applications and define how they will land, run, and operate on a new core AWS cloud platform. The role focuses on understanding each application's current architecture, dependencies, data flows, security requirements, operational model, and migration constraints, then shaping the right target-state design using the AWS landing zone and foundational AWS services such as S3, VPC, IAM, KMS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, networking, security, logging, monitoring, and governance.