Salary: £60,000 - 63,000 per year Requirements: Strong understanding of core AWS services; VPCs, subnets, EC2, lambda, s3, route 53, VPC endpoints Good understanding of networking - TCP/IP, DNS, routing, proxy patterns Good understanding of containers and Kubernetes (broad architecture knowledge) Design documentation skills Influencing, negotiating & pragmatism - getting designs through assurance processes Problem solving and options analysis Evidence based decision making Excellent communication skills, capable of engaging with both junior engineers and senior leaders Optional expertise in: - Elasticsearch Stack - Dynatrace - Prometheus & Grafana - AWS EKS & KOPS - Hashicorp Consul - Hashicorp Vault - VPNs (e.g. OpenVPN, Fortigate site to site VPNs) - Atlassian tooling (e.g. Bitbucket, Confluence, JIRA, Crowd) - AWS Workspaces - LDAP - Redhat SSO & OIDC - Firewalling technologies (e.g. AWS Network Firewall, Fortigate) - Proxy Servers (e.g. nginx, openresty, squid, fortiweb) - DevOps tools (e.g. Terraform, Concourse, Sonarqube) - Transit Gateway Responsibilities: Collaborate with teams to gather new requirements and propose design options Ensure designs are governed and delivered to relevant teams Work closely with other architects to leverage tribal knowledge across the platform Support delivery teams by troubleshooting issues and resolving incidents Contribute to longer-term strategies and ad hoc tasks delegated by the Senior Management Team Technologies: AWS Lambda Atlassian BitBucket Confluence DevOps Dynatrace EC2 ElasticSearch Firewall FortiGate Grafana Support JIRA Kubernetes LDAP Network Nginx Prometheus TCP/IP Terraform Cloud Architect More: We are a global IT Consultancy focused on delivering digital transformation to the Home Office. This role is based in London, Croydon, predominantly remote, and offers a competitive rate of £525 per day, inside IR35. Initially, we will engage for 6 months, with a strong possibility of extension. Our Solution Architects play a vital role in managing a large AWS-based developer platform that supports over 100 teams and manages multiple critical workloads. last updated 8 week of 2026