Senior Cloud Architect
Senior Cloud Architect
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15-08-2025
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We are offering an exciting opportunity for a highly skilled and experienced Senior Cloud Architect to join our team. The successful candidate will architect and implement robust AWS-based systems that meet high standards for scalability performance and security for our Payments and Foreign Exchange (FX) business. This position requires a hands-on cloud architect with extensive AWS expertise capable of promoting best practices in infrastructure-as-code security and DevSecOps within a fast-paced financial technology environment ensuring alignment with business goals and driving the innovation needed to maintain our competitive edge.
Role Responsibilities:
- As a senior member of the Engineering and Architecture team you will collaborate with development teams to design and implement cloud-native application architectures on AWS that are highly available scalable and secure ensuring solutions meet business needs while aligning with cloud best practices and compliance requirements.
- Partner with the Platform engineering team to create reusable cloud design patterns and create blueprints/modules (Infrastructure as Code templates) for provisioning and hosting applications on AWS to ensure architectural consistency and governance across teams reducing duplicate efforts.
- Design and oversee AWS networking configurations (VPCs subnets routing) and multi-account setups. Implement cloud security standards including network segmentation and security groups identity & access management and encryption.
- Drive automation across the cloud environmentUtilise Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform and AWS CDK to provision resources in a repeatable manner.
- Work closely with the security team to implement security best practices including identity management encryption compliance (such as GDPR and ISO 27001) and threat detection and vulnerability management (e.g. Inspector Security Hub GuardDuty) to improve the NIST score.
- Monitor and optimise AWS environments for performance cost and efficiency (right-sizing auto-scaling etc.). Implement monitoring and logging solutions (such as CloudWatch CloudTrail and X-Ray) to track performance and troubleshoot issues.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineering teams promoting AWS well-architected best practices and guiding engineers in cloud-native design and troubleshooting.
- Engage with senior technology leadership and stakeholders to communicate architectural decisions technical risks and opportunities.
Qualifications :
- Proven practical experience of AWS services including account management networking security and identity compute storage databases and messaging.
- Established cloud architecture principles patterns and guardrails to guide the design and development of solution architectures.
- Extensive experience with AWS core services such as AWS Organisations S3 EC2 ECS ECR KMS RDS SQS SNS Lambda VPC IAM API Gateway etc.
- Solid understanding of AWS networking and security controls. Expertise in designing secure VPCs (subnets routing NACLs) and implementing network security measures (security groups firewalls) as well as identity management (AWS IAM). Knowledge of cloud security best practices (encryption key management vulnerability management) and experience in securing mission-critical workloads.
- Strong knowledge of Infrastructure-as-Code tools particularly Terraform and creating reusable Terraform modules. Ability to define and deploy cloud infrastructure through code for consistency and repeatability.
- Experience in designing architectures for high availability and fault tolerance using multi-AZ and multi-region strategies load balancing and auto-scaling.
- Experience in setting up multi-account AWS environments or landing zones (e.g. using AWS Organisations/Control Tower) to enforce governance and isolation between workloads and implementing backup strategies and disaster recovery plans on AWS to ensure business continuity.
- Knowledge of modern software development practices such as Test-Driven Development (TDD) CI/CD (using tools like GitHub and GitHub Actions) DevSecOps SRE etc.
- Knowledge of machine learning and AI applications in financial services.
Additional Information :
- Hybrid working
- Contributory personal pension plan: - Minimum: Employee 2% and Employer 7%. Employer matches contributions in 1% increments to a maximum of: Employee 5% and Employer 10%
- Life Assurance 4 times annual salary
- Group Income Protection
- Private Medical Insurance this may include cover for partner and or children at company cost. Cover includes Optical Dental and Audiology
- Discretionary Bonus
- Competitive Annual Leave
- 2 Volunteering Days
- Benefit Hub
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
Employment Type
Full-time
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