AWS Devops Lead Architect

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.

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.