Job Description
AWS Technical Architect
Location: Remote (UK-based)
Contract: 12-month FTC, with a view to permanent
Security Clearance: Active SC required, transferrable
Amber Labs is looking for an experienced AWS Technical Architect to join us on a long-term engagement delivering secure, cloud-native solutions for a major UK government programme. This is a hands-on architecture role, suited to someone who enjoys setting technical direction, building robust platforms, and supporting teams to deliver at pace in high-assurance environments.
You’ll be responsible for designing and implementing scalable AWS architectures, establishing strong cloud foundations, and guiding engineering teams on best practice. The work is fully remote, but you must be UK-based with active SC clearance.
What you’ll be doing
* Designing enterprise-grade AWS cloud architectures aligned to business and technical needs
* Leading the implementation of AWS Control Tower and Landing Zone Accelerator in multi-account environments
* Building and maintaining infrastructure using Terraform
* Designing and deploying Kubernetes platforms using Amazon EKS
* Defining cloud governance, security standards and compliance controls
* Working closely with delivery teams to optimise cloud-native application design
* Providing technical leadership, guidance and mentoring to engineers
* Shaping disaster recovery and business continuity approaches for critical systems
* Assessing and recommending new AWS services and improvements as platforms evolve
What we’re looking for
Essential
* Strong, hands-on experience as an AWS Technical Architect
* Deep knowledge of AWS services including EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, Lambda, RDS, CloudFormation and CloudWatch
* Proven experience implementing AWS Control Tower and Landing Zone Accelerator
* Expert-level Terraform experience in production environments
* Solid Kubernetes experience, ideally with Amazon EKS
* Strong understanding of cloud security, identity, encryption and compliance
* Experience designing large-scale, cloud-native or microservices-based systems
* Active SC clearance
Desirable
* AWS Solutions Architect – Professional (required for the role)
* AWS DevOps Engineer – Professional
* CKA or CKAD
* HashiCorp Terraform certification
* Experience with CI/CD tooling such as AWS CodePipeline, Jenkins or GitLab
* Monitoring and observability using tools such as CloudWatch, Prometheus or Grafana
* Familiarity with the AWS Well-Architected Framework
* FinOps and cloud cost optimisation experience
* GitOps approaches using tools like ArgoCD or Flux
* Strong scripting skills in Python or Bash
Why Amber Labs
Amber Labs is a fast-growing data and digital consultancy working on meaningful, high-impact public sector programmes. We offer genuinely flexible working, challenging technical problems, and the opportunity to move into a permanent role if that’s what you’re looking for.
If you’re an AWS architect who enjoys building secure, well-governed platforms and wants long-term stability with room to grow, we’d love to hear from you.