We're looking for a skilled AWS Architect or experienced AWS Engineer to join our growing team. This is a crucial role where you'll lead the design and implementation of best-practice AWS cloud solutions that support the future direction of our industry-leading recruitment businesses and new enterprises.
As an AWS Architect/Engineer, you will:
* Lead technical design and architecture of AWS solutions across multi-account estates
* Define, develop, and publish architectural artefacts using Infrastructure-as-Code
* Partner with development teams to drive standardisation, automation, and cloud-native adoption
* Conduct architecture reviews and continuously improve platform architecture based on AWS advancements
* Support engineering teams with optimisation, issue resolution and troubleshooting
* Act as a subject matter expert on AWS security, networking, and service adoption
The successful AWS Solution Architect/Engineer will have:
* Expertise in AWS reference architectures, patterns, and platform design
* DevOps knowledge and experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation tooling
* Excellent communication skills, with a confident ability to engage stakeholders at all levels
* A strong grasp of AWS security models, policies, and network configurations
* Experience working in Agile delivery environments
It would be a bonus if you also have:
* AWS certifications (Solutions Architect Associate/Professional or AWS speciality certifications)
* Experience of: LZA, DevOps, EKS; Autoscaling/Karpenter; CloudWatch; system and network performance monitoring; cost and performance optimisation; serverless; Aurora and RDS databases; Blue/Green deployments
* Experience mentoring engineers
What's in it for you:
* Up to £66k salary plus benefits
* Ability to work from home and/or in the office
* 34 days annual leave (including 4 customary days) plus options to buy more annual leave or carry over unused annual leave, plus bank holidays
* Generous Defined Benefit (DB) pension scheme
* Access to internal communities for wellbeing and innovation, including 1 innovation day per sprint to work on innovative personal projects that align with company goals
* Ongoing learning and development
* A great work environment with a friendly and supportive team
* The opportunity to lead the cloud infrastructure strategy that will underpin our future successes
Person spec
* Proactive ownership and accountability traits strong
* Independent thinkers and strong self-reliance
* Works well in a team
* Happy to lead as well as respond to developers and testers and take their requirements and deliver working solutions
* Strong strategic and tactical abilities, i.e. experience of writing multi-year cloud strategies as well as 1-6 month roadmaps
* Experience of mentoring and coaching people in their team
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