Senior AWS Solutions Architect

At Cloud Bridge we transform how businesses use AWS cloud services. We specialise in Consultancy Managed Services Cloud Governance FinOps and AI/ML to unlock AWSs full potential.

Recognised as AWSs Rising Star Partner of the Year for 2023 in EMEA and 2022 in the UK&I were expanding globally with new offices in South Africa and Dubai a strong presence in the Philippines and our HQ in the UK.

Weve managed hundreds of cloud migrations architectural projects cost optimisations and support services for a diverse range of customers from start-ups to public sector organisations.

As an AWS Premier Partner we enhance IT experiences for clients across various sectors. If youre ready to make a difference and join an exciting journey with Cloud Bridge and AWS we want to hear from you.

If youre ready to make a difference and join an exciting journey with Cloud Bridge and AWS we want to hear from you.

We are looking for a Senior AWS Solutions Architect who is excellent at engaging in technical discussions and can lead by example spreading their knowledge and working as a part of our team of architects to design build and deliver solutions on AWS.

This is a hands-on delivery role. The successful candidate will be embedded within project delivery teams and is expected to actively implement migrate and troubleshoot AWS environments not just design them. While there is some involvement in pre-sales and solution shaping there is also a strong focus on technical delivery getting hands on keyboard and owning outcomes in live customer environments.

Key responsibilities

• Work closely with clients to understand their business requirements and design customised solutions using AWS services and technologies.

• Design implement and maintain scalable reliable and secure AWS solutions utilising best practices and industry standards.

• Act as a hands-on technical contributor within project teams directly implementing AWS infrastructure migrations and modernisation activities in customer environments.

• Lead and execute AWS migration activities including server database and application migrations using services such as AWS Application Migration Service (MGN) DMS and related tooling

• Work with DevOps teams to implement automation CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code using tools such as CloudFormation and Terraform.

• Ensure solutions are optimised for performance availability and cost and provide recommendations for cost optimisation and resource utilisation.

• Collaborate with cross-functional delivery teams working directly alongside engineers PMs and customers to deliver production-ready AWS solutions.

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior team members and participate in knowledge-sharing and training initiatives.

• Stay current with AWS technologies best practices and industry trends and provide thought leadership and guidance to clients and internal teams.

• Develop and maintain documentation including architecture diagrams technical specifications and operational procedures.

• Participate in pre-sales activities such as scoping and estimation where required while remaining primarily accountable for post-signature technical delivery and implementation.

Essential Skills

• At least 5 years of experience in designing and deploying AWS solutions including but not limited to EC2 S3 RDS Lambda DynamoDB API Gateway CloudFront CloudFormation CloudWatch and IAM.

• At least 5 years technical experience with cloud technologies and/or on-premise infrastructure

• Proven experience delivering AWS projects end-to-end including building configuring deploying and supporting production AWS environments.

• Strong hands-on experience migrating workloads into AWS including planning executing validating and supporting migrations using tools such as AWS MGN and AWS Transform. Some exposure to the AWS MAP programme is useful.

• Strong understanding of AWS architecture and services including networking security storage and compute.

• Experience with designing and implementing highly available fault-tolerant and scalable solutions on AWS.

• Strong understanding of cloud security best practices including IAM policies encryption and network security.

• Hands-on experience writing deploying and maintaining infrastructure as code using CloudFormation and/or Terraform in live customer environments.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively in a team environment and communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
  

Desirables

• AWS certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate or AWS Certified Developer Associate.

• Experience with containerisation technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.

• Experience with serverless technologies such as AWS Lambda and API Gateway.

• Experience with data analytics and big data technologies such as AWS Redshift EMR and Athena.

• Experience with automation and scripting tools such as Python PowerShell and Bash.

• Experience working within an IT Professional Services or Managed Services provider.

• Experience working with cybersecurity vendors including the likes of Fortinet SentinelOne Palo Alto & CrowdStrike.

More about the role

What this role is:

• A hands-on AWS delivery role embedded in project teams.

• A mix of design and deep technical implementation

• Owning the success of customer environments in production

What this role is not:

• A pure pre-sales or bid support role

• An architecture-only or governance-only position

• A role where others do the implementation for you

Benefits:

• 25 Days Paid Time-off

• Birthday Leave

• Company Bonus Scheme

• Flexible Working

• Early Friday Finish (Monthly)

• Company Laptop and Peripherals

• Company Sabbatical Scheme

• Personalised Training & Development Plan

• Annual Wellness Allowance

• Company Events

• Private Health Insurance

• Wellbeing Support

• Mental Health Champions

• Calm App Subscription

• Volunteer Days