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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Staff Solutions Architect - **Company:** Transforming Learning Group - **Location:** UK (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** £80,148.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Computing Platforms, Software as a Service, Cloud Computing Security, Cloud Engineering, Code Review, Databases, System Configuration, Disaster Recovery, Identity and Access Management, Node.Js, Performance Tuning, TypeScript, Data Logging, Cloud Platform System, Software Troubleshooting, Containerization, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Deployment Automation, Terraform - **Published:** August 11, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5835924913 ## About the Role You'll be a highly experienced cloud and infrastructure professional who enjoys solving complex technical challenges and influencing engineering direction through expertise and collaboration., * Significant hands-on experience designing and operating AWS cloud environments. * Strong knowledge of services including container platforms, databases, networking, CDN technologies and identity management. * Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, CDK or similar. * Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation. * Expertise in cloud security, resilience, scalability and performance optimisation. * Experience designing and supporting multi-tenant platforms. * Strong troubleshooting, code review and technical governance skills. * Ability to provide technical leadership and influence stakeholders without direct management responsibility. Desirable Skills & Experience * Experience with cloud cost optimisation and FinOps practices. * Knowledge of TypeScript and Node.js environments. * Security, compliance or governance experience within education or other regulated sectors. * Experience working with AI-assisted infrastructure and development tooling. * Familiarity with incident management, SRE principles and on-call practices. ## Description We are looking for an experienced Staff Solution Architect to take ownership of the cloud platform that underpins our growing suite of products and services. This is a senior individual contributor role with significant influence across our technology landscape. You'll be responsible for shaping and evolving our AWS infrastructure, ensuring it remains secure, scalable, resilient and cost-effective while supporting the needs of a modern multi-tenant SaaS platform. Working closely with engineering teams, you'll set standards, guide best practice and provide technical leadership across infrastructure, deployment, observability and platform architecture. 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