Job Title:
Principal Solutions Architect - AWS DevOps
Location:
Hybrid / UK
Salary/Rate:
Up to £750 inside IR35
Start Date:
October 2025
Job Type:
6-month contract (with scope to extend)
Company Introduction
We are looking for an experienced Principal Solutions Architect with strong experience across AWS DevOps to join our client in the IT Services and IT Consulting industry.
Job Responsibilities/Objectives
* Participate into client's ongoing initiatives, strategy, approach and roadmap
* Step up to advise best-in-class solution architecture and DevOps implementation guidelines
* Implementation advisor to Application, Database and Middleware teams for development, deployment and migration activities
* Plan and Design core AWS platform architecture, including areas such as: Organisations, Account Design, VPC, Subnet, segmentation strategies, Cloud Endure, MGN, DataSync, Backup and DR approach/design, Network connectivity, Direct Connect, TGW and VPN
* Design and implement ECS clusters using Fargate or EC2 launch types.
* Define task definitions, services, and IAM roles for secure and scalable container deployment.
* Automate deployments using CI/CD pipelines (e.g., CodePipeline, Jenkins, GitHub Actions).#AWS-VPC, 2-AWS-RDS,3-AWS-EC2,4-AWS-Security service,5-AWS - CloudWatch,6-AWS- Quicksight & 7-AWS Lambda,
* Should be able to Set up of Multi Account Architecture using Landing Zone, Control Tower, Vending Machines etc.
* Experienced in Security mechanism using AWS Security Hub, Guard Duty, AWS Config, AWS Network Firewall, AWS Inspector.
* Work with AWS CloudOps L2 and L3 team for deployment and configuration mgmt.
* Scripting experience and the ability to develop AWS EAC (Environment as code) - added advantage.
* Automation / IAC (infrastructure As Code) Solutions using CloudFormation, Terraform.
* CloudFormation and third-party automation approach/strategy, Environment and application automation.
* AWS Cost Management and Optimisation mechanisms.
* Design and Implement AWS architectures and environments. Must have experience in implementing the WAF - Well Architected Framework.
* Design Native Cloud Application Architectures or optimize applications for AWS.
Tools Required
* GitLab
* Terraform
* AWS
* CI\CD
* SumoLogic
* SNOW
* IaC
* Serverless Infra
* Jira
* Confluence