AWS Architect

AWS Architect

12 Month Contract

Outside IR35

Fully remote

Job Description:

Required skills:

• In depth knowledge of core AWS services, AWS design principles, account setup and structure
• AWS Lambda, Step Functions & digital transformation experience
• Proven experience building end to end solutions in AWS through code
• Proven experience with IAC tooling eg Terraform, CDK etc
• Proven experience driving DevOps best practices
• Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills

Desirable skills:

• Proven experience assessing client workloads and technology landscape for Cloud suitability, develop business case and Cloud adoption roadmaps
• Experience in defining new architectures and ability to drive project from an architecture standpoint
• Ability to quickly establish credibility and trustworthiness with key stakeholders in client organization.
• Experience provisioning and spinning up AWS environments in a secure and cost-effective manner
• Experience building scalable production systems through various approaches - immutable infrastructure, containers, serverless etc
• Certification on AWS architecture desirable

Key responsibilities & duties include:

• Study existing technology landscape and understand current application workloads
• Understand and document technical requirements from clients
• Define Migration strategy to move applications to the cloud
• Develop architecture blueprints and detailed documentation. Create bill of materials, including required Cloud Services and tools
• Design and work with AWS network architecture including VPC, VPN, DIrect Connect, Transit GW etc
• Design the HA/DR strategies
• Set up process, services and tools around cloud
• Oversee building of the environment and project solution designs
• Validate the environment to meet all security and compliance controls