Summary
✨ AI‑Generated
A senior cloud architecture role for an experienced professional who will design secure and scalable environments, guide cloud modernization initiatives, establish automation standards, and provide technical leadership across engineering teams.
Highlights
Leadership role focused on cloud transformation, architecture design, migration strategy, and modern infrastructure practices with opportunities to influence large-scale solutions.
Description
Tasks
Job Title : Senior AWS DevOps Lead (Architect)
Location: London
Duration: 3 months+ with possible extension
10+ years of experience
Key Responsibilities
Lead discovery workshops and infrastructure assessments for cloud transformation programs.
Analyze existing on-premise and cloud environments and define modernization roadmaps.
Design scalable, secure, resilient, and cost-optimized AWS architectures.
Create high-level and low-level designs (HLD/LLD) for infrastructure and platform solutions.
Lead migration planning, dependency analysis, and workload onboarding to AWS.
Define Infrastructure as Code (IaC) standards using Terraform and CloudFormation.
Design and implement CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
Provide technical leadership across infrastructure, DevOps, security, and operations teams.
Drive platform standardization, governance, and operational best practices.
Act as a trusted advisor for customers during architecture reviews and solutioning discussions.
Requirements
Mandatory Skills
AWS Architecture and Solution Design
AWS Landing Zone & Multi-Account Strategy
Infrastructure Discovery & Assessment
Cloud Migration & Modernization
Terraform (Mandatory)
CloudFormation
Kubernetes / Amazon EKS
Docker
CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps)
Networking (VPC, Transit Gateway, VPN, Direct Connect)
Security (IAM, Security Hub, GuardDuty, WAF)
Monitoring (CloudWatch, Grafana, Prometheus)
Preferred AWS Services
EC2, VPC, IAM, Route53
ECS, EKS, Lambda
S3, EFS, FSx
RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB
CloudWatch, CloudTrail
Systems Manager
AWS Organizations
Control Tower
Certifications
AWS Solutions Architect Professional (Preferred)
AWS DevOps Engineer Professional
AWS Security Specialty (Good to Have)
Ideal Candidate Profile
Strong hands-on architect with the ability to perform discovery, assessment, solutioning, and implementation.
Comfortable engaging with client architects, infrastructure teams, and CXO stakeholders.
Able to define migration strategies, architecture patterns, and DevOps operating models.
Hands-on technical expert, not just a coordinator or project manager.
Experience supporting large enterprise cloud transformation programs across multiple geographies.
