Salary: £42,000 - 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 preferred) Design documentation skills Influencing, negotiating & pragmatism - getting designs through assurance processes Problem solving and options analysis Evidence based decision making Excellent communication skills, from junior engineer input to senior leader explanations (Optional) Expertise in Elasticsearch Stack, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, AWS EKS and KOPS, Hashicorp Consul/Vault, VPNs, Atlassian tooling, AWS Workspaces, LDAP, Redhat SSO/OIDC, firewall technologies, proxy servers, and DevOps tools (Terraform, Concourse, Sonarqube, Transit Gateway) Responsibilities: Understand and analyze new requirements from teams and propose design options Collaborate closely with other architects to leverage tribal knowledge Support delivery teams in resolving problems that arise during implementation Assist in the analysis of incidents and provide architect support Work on long-term strategies and ad-hoc tasks assigned by the Senior Management Team Technologies: AWS Lambda Architect Atlassian DevOps Dynatrace EC2 ElasticSearch Firewall Grafana Support Kubernetes LDAP Prometheus TCP/IP Terraform Cloud BitBucket Confluence FortiGate JIRA Network Nginx More: We are one of the largest AWS-based developer platforms in the UK, supporting over 100 teams and managing multiple critical workloads. This contract role for a Technical Architect is based in Croydon with a hybrid working model. We offer competitive rates and require active SC Clearance. Our architects play a crucial role in the development and delivery process, ensuring effective solutions that meet the diverse needs of our teams. last updated 5 week of 2026