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AWS Cloud Platform Architect
£100,000 - 100,000
Sanderson Recruitment
Whiteladies Road 42, Bristol
£100,000 - 100,000
Requirements
Must:
- Strong, current hands-on AWS architecture expertise across services such as EC2, EKS, Lambda, networking, storage, backup and recovery
- Experience designing and migrating enterprise-scale, regulated platforms (financial services, utilities, government or similar)
- Background in platform and infrastructure architecture, not just high-level strategy
- Proven experience with legacy modernisation and data centre / on-prem to cloud migration
- Ability to engage at all levels - from whiteboard conversations with engineers to discussions with senior leaders
- Pragmatic, collaborative approach with strong stakeholder and influencing skills
- Exposure to both AWS and Azure environments (nice to have)
- Experience working with large engineering teams across multiple locations (nice to have)
- Interest in emerging areas such as AI-enabled platforms or tooling (not required)
Responsibilities
- Owning and evolving the architecture, maturity and roadmap of AWS cloud platforms, aligned to broader digital strategy
- Defining and maintaining cloud reference architectures, principles, guardrails, blueprints and patterns
- Working closely with cloud platform engineering to shape roadmaps and support delivery
- Leading and contributing to solution architecture for legacy-to-cloud migrations, including complex on-prem environments
- Acting as a senior technical authority, able to engage confidently with engineers, architects, senior stakeholders and executives
- Partnering with security, risk and compliance teams to ensure secure, resilient and cost-effective platforms in a regulated context
- Engaging with AWS as a strategic technology partner, influencing and shaping the relationship
- Supporting incident resolution and complex technical problem-solving when needed
Description
We are a key player in the financial services sector, building a new Cloud Platform Architecture capability. This is a unique opportunity for an experienced AWS Cloud Platform Architect to join our growing team and play a crucial role in shaping our technology landscape. With a salary range of £90,000-£120,000 and a hybrid working model (typically 1 day per week in Bristol or London), we offer high visibility and genuine ownership over our critical transformation programme. Respect and equality are core values for us, and we proudly support a diverse and inclusive community.
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