Cloud Architect

Primary Objective

Design, govern, and evolve secure, scalable, and cost-efficient AWS cloud architectures aligned to business and application requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Define AWS cloud architecture for new builds, migrations, and modernisation programs
• Translate business and non‑functional requirements into target AWS designs
• Own landing zone design (accounts, IAM, networking, security, governance)
• Select appropriate AWS services (IaaS, PaaS, serverless) and define reference architectures
• Ensure architecture aligns to security, resilience, performance, and cost‑optimisation principles
• Collaborate with application, network, security, and DevOps teams to deliver end‑to‑end solutions
• Provide technical leadership, design assurance, and architectural sign‑off

Core Skills / Technologies

• AWS core services: VPC, EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, ELB, Auto Scaling
• Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation / Terraform)
• Security and governance: IAM, logging, monitoring, compliance controls
• Cloud migration patterns, HA/DR design, and cost optimisation
• Strong stakeholder communication and design documentation skills