Senior AWS Platform Architect

Senior Cloud Architect

Location: Hybrid London/Remote 12 days per week

Salary:

SC CLEARANCE

This role requires SC clearance and in future may require DV clearance. Active SC or DV is not required (although it is highly desirable) but you must be eligible to pass SC and DV clearance to be considered.

About us

Cloudscaler are specialists in largescale AWS platforms and modern engineering practices working with private and public sector organisations who want to innovate motivate and deliver at scale.

We are experts in AWS landing zones cloud risk mitigation and cloud operating models. We are thought leaders working with public and private sector enterprise organisations to help them to unlock the true value of cloud.

We look for innovators people who love to be creative and those who bring change to Cloudscaler as we believe that the more diverse motivated and empowered our teams are the better the solutions are that we deliver.

What were looking for

We are looking for AWS Architects with extensive landing zone knowledge. For us this means experience of designing and operating enterprisescale landing zones within AWS. It also means you need an understanding of the key security risks that are present when operating workloads within AWS and how to design a best practice landing zone to mitigate these risks.

We are thought leaders so our Architects need to be opinionated about IaC structure and modularisation controls and guardrails network patterns and how to architect appropriate and scalable Cloud solutions with the ability to assess tradeoffs with design options.

What youll be doing

You will be working closely with our customers key stakeholders designing and providing the technical governance over the delivery of significant workloads on the cloud.

You will be defining the infrastructure network and security design along with the design of platform tooling services and will set the technical standards that define what good looks like for all services putting checks in place to ensure compliance.

• Understanding complex requirements and designing secure scalable and resilient platforms on AWS
• Designing and providing the technical governance over the delivery of significant workloads on the cloud
• Architecting complex systems and platforms enabling them to run seamlessly at scale including defining the infrastructure network and security design
• Designing solutions to prevent detect and remediate key security risks that are present when using AWS
• Setting the technical standards that define what good looks like for all services and put checks in place to ensure their compliance
• Designing and delivering workloads using a wide range of AWS services including; AWS Organizations CloudTrail SecurityHub GuardDuty IAM and IAM Identity Center
• Providing technical leadership to crossfunctional teams defining technical direction and strategy of teams and systems

Why you should join us

We care about our people and truly believe that highperforming teams are created through openness collaboration and trust. We ensure that there are opportunities both inside and outside of work to collaborate share ideas and build connections.

We hold quarterly company days and monthly virtual town halls to share company news and share ideas and suggestions. We recognise that everyone brings their own unique skills and experiences so these are opportunities for us to collaborate across all teams and functions to build a truly inclusive culture. We also hold monthly social events for everyone to get to know each other outside of work.

Recognising that everyone brings their own unique skills and experiences our learning and development opportunities are bespoke to each individual. You can choose whichever learning through whichever vehicle works for you to advance through our transparent career development pathways.

Benefits

• Discretionary bonus scheme
• 25 days annual leave 5 additional days for training/exams or volunteering
• Travel and accommodation expensed
• Life Assurance
• Long Term Disability cover
• Employee Assist Programme for employee advice and support (including legal and counselling helpline)
• Health Mental Health Wellbeing Financial and Legal support
• 24/7 GP access
• 500 for home office equipment
• Public holiday optout scheme giving you the option to work on public holidays creating the flexibility to enjoy your time off when it suits you
• Individual training and development plans with online training and exam costs covered
• Recruitment referral scheme referral bonus if you introduce us to someone we then hire
• Customer referral scheme referral bonus if you introduce us to a new customer
• Cycle To Work Scheme

If you would like to join us on our adventure please apply!