Job Description Principal Cloud Solutions Architect - DV Cleared
Location: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire (Onsite)
Salary: £83,600 - £125,400 per annum (dependent on experience)
Contract: Permanent
Clearance: Current UK Developed Vetting (DV) clearance is essential
We are supporting a leading defence-sector consultancy in the recruitment of a Principal Cloud Solutions Architect for a permanent role based in Cheltenham. This is a senior opportunity for an experienced professional with deep expertise in AWS cloud architecture to help shape, secure, and modernise critical national infrastructure.
You'll play a key role in designing and delivering secure cloud solutions, guiding multi-disciplinary teams, mentoring engineers, and setting the technical direction across high-security programmes. This is an opportunity to define possible-contributing to solutions that underpin national resilience and mission-critical systems.
Key Responsibilities:
Design and lead the delivery of secure, scalable AWS-based solutions within complex, high-assurance environments
Translate functional and non-functional requirements into actionable architecture and implementation plans
Produce high- and low-level designs, CONOPS, SyOPs, and other technical documentation
Lead quality assurance and te...