AWS Cloud Architect (Platform/SRE)

Role: AWS Architect (Platform/SRE)

Location: Hybrid – Remote/Cheltenham

Permanent - £110,000-£130,000

About Cloudscaler:

Cloudscaler are specialists in large-scale AWS platforms and modern engineering practices, working with private and public sector organisations who want to innovate, motivate, and deliver at scale.

We are an award-winning company, truly customer-focused, with a track record to show that we do not just deliver results but go above and beyond with passion and innovation.

We look for innovators, people who love to be creative and those who bring change to Cloudscaler as we believe that the more diverse, motivated, and empowered our teams are, the better the solutions are that we deliver. As a result, we can guarantee the following:

• No two days are the same and you will always have an exciting project to work on.
• You will be challenged intellectually with complex problems that require innovative and original solutions.
• Our teams are made up of brilliant minds and working with an inspiring leadership team you will gain invaluable skills and experience in delivering truly world-class AWS solutions, progressing you leaps and bounds ahead in your career.

About the Role:

As an AWS Architect, you will be responsible for designing and providing the technical governance over the delivery of significant workloads on the cloud. You will define the infrastructure, network, and security design, along with the design of platform tooling services (based upon cloud managed services, open source, or commercial products). You will set the technical standards that define what good looks like for all services and put checks in place to ensure compliance.

Although a technical background and deep technical knowledge is required, this position is not hands-on.

Required Skills:

• Hands on experience of working with key AWS services
• Site reliability engineering (SRE) and/or platform engineering experience
• Thorough understanding of how to design and build secure, scalable, and resilient platforms on AWS
• Thorough understanding of the key security risks that are present when using AWS and how these can be prevented, detected, and remediated
• Hands on experience of designing and delivering workloads using a wide range of AWS services
• Proven technical leadership across several projects

Desired Skills:

• AWS Associate, Professional or Speciality certifications
• Hands on experience of working with key AWS security services
• Delivering within an agile environment
• Building, deploying and operating Serverless workloads
• Implementing and working with continuous integration / continuous delivery pipelines

Benefits:

• 25 days holiday (plus 8 days bank holiday)
• Hybrid working
• Training and development
• Open-door policy
• Life assurance
• Disability cover
• Physical health, mental health, and wellbeing support
• Employee Assist Programme

Please note:

• We are only able to consider applicants who have the right to work in the UK
• We will undertake SC clearance for this position, so although active SC clearance is not necessary, you must be able to pass these checks

If you would like to join us on our adventure, please apply.