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# Senior AWS Migration Architect

- **Company:** Cititec Talent Limited
- **Location:** United Kingdom
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Temporary to permanent
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Databases, Relational Databases, Linux, Ansible, Virtual Local Area Networks, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Ingres (database), SC Clearance, Terraform, Serverless Computing, Vmware
- **Published:** November 6, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerboard.com/gb/en/find-jobs-in-United-Kingdom/-224F8853FD4317A36C/

## About the Role

* Extensive AWS architecture and large-scale migration experience.
 * Strong AWS networking, VPC, Direct Connect and landing zone design.
 * VMware-to-AWS migration experience.
 * Serverless architecture and relational database modernisation.
 * Experience leading technical design, engineering teams and customer stakeholders.

Desirable: Ingres, OpenROAD, Terraform, Ansible and AWS modernisation tooling experience.

I'm keen to speak with senior AWS architects who have led complex migration and modernisation programmes.

## Description

I'm working on a senior contract opportunity with a major public-sector transformation programme, requiring an experienced AWS Migration Architect to lead a large-scale migration from VMware to AWS.

Key details:

 * 5-month initial contract, with a strong possibility of extension
 * Outside IR35
 * UK-based, predominantly remote with occasional travel
 * Immediate start (1-2 weeks)
 * SC clearance preferred, or eligibility to obtain (BPSS required from day one)

The programme:

 * Migration of approximately 200 Linux VMs from VMware to AWS across 50 VLANs.
 * Modernisation of approximately 30 Legacy Ingres database and OpenROAD applications.
 * Design and delivery of a secure, private AWS serverless architecture.
 * Establishing a repeatable migration and modernisation approach.