Senior Cloud Architect (AWS)

Location: Cheltenham - 2-3 days on site per week

Salary: £120,000-£140,000

SC Clearance Requirements: Due to working with a number of government bodies, SC clearance is required for our customer facing teams. You do not need active SC clearance as we will undertake checks upon you joining, but you must be eligible to pass SC clearance. In future, DV clearance may be required, so the ability/willingness to pass DV clearance is advantageous but not essential. You must be UK-based.

About Us: We are experts in AWS landing zones, cloud risk mitigation and cloud operating models; thought leaders working with public and private sector enterprise organisations to help them unlock the true value of cloud.

Why you should join us: We care about our people and truly believe that high-performing teams are created through openness, collaboration and trust. We ensure that there are opportunities both inside and outside of work to collaborate, share ideas and build connections. We recognise that everyone brings their own unique skills and experiences, so we regularly collaborate across all teams and functions, to build a truly inclusive culture, including team socials, quarterly company days, and monthly "town halls". Recognising that everyone brings their own unique skills and experiences, our learning and development opportunities are bespoke to each individual; helping you to advance through our transparent career development pathways and achieve your career goals.

What We're Looking For: We are looking for AWS Cloud Architects with extensive landing zone knowledge. For us, this means experience of designing and operating enterprise-scale landing zones within AWS. It also means you need an understanding of the key security risks that are present when operating workloads within AWS and how to design a best practice landing zone to mitigate these risks. We are thought leaders, so our Architects need to be opinionated about IaC structure and modularisation, controls and guardrails, network patterns, and how to architect appropriate and scalable Cloud solutions with the ability to assess trade-offs with design options.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Working closely with our customers’ key stakeholders, designing and providing the technical governance over the delivery of significant workloads on the cloud.
• Defining the infrastructure, network, and security design, along with the design of platform tooling services, and setting the technical standards that define what good looks like for all services, putting checks in place to ensure compliance.
• Understanding complex requirements and designing secure, scalable and resilient platforms on AWS.
• Designing solutions to prevent, detect and remediate key security risks that are present when using AWS.
• Developing and owning the enterprise cloud architecture; evaluating trends and technology.
• Leading client CCoE transformation, establishing RACI models and operational governance.
• Leading the client’s cloud control strategy, aligning metrics, observability, and governance across business.
• Ensuring adherence to Well Architected principles across the client’s enterprise solutions.
• Overseeing the client’s cost optimisation strategy, whilst ensuring the development of a cost-aware culture.
• Ensuring the client’s enterprise security strategy, managing risks, compliance, and threat mitigation.
• Setting the technical standards that define what good looks like for all services and putting checks in place to ensure their compliance.
• Designing and delivering workloads using a wide range of AWS services including; AWS Organizations, CloudTrail, SecurityHub, GuardDuty, IAM and IAM Identity Center.
• Providing technical leadership to cross-functional teams, defining technical direction and strategy of teams and systems.

Benefits:

• Discretionary bonus scheme.
• 25 days’ annual leave + 5 additional days for training/exams or volunteering.
• Travel and accommodation expensed where eligible in line with our expenses policy.
• Life Assurance.
• Long Term Disability cover.
• Employee Assist Programme for employee advice and support (including legal and counselling helpline).
• Health, Mental Health, Wellbeing, Financial and Legal support.
• 24/7 GP access.
• Public holiday opt-out scheme giving you the option to work on public holidays creating the flexibility to enjoy your time off when it suits you.
• Individual training and development plans with online training and exam costs covered.
• Recruitment referral scheme – referral bonus if you introduce us to someone we then hire.
• Customer referral scheme – referral bonus if you introduce us to a new customer.
• Cycle To Work Scheme.
• Dog friendly office.

Interview Process:

• Screening call with our Talent Acquisition team.
• 1st Interview - 30 minute remote interview with our hiring team.
• 2nd Interview - 60 minute remote technical interview with members of our architecture team.
• 3rd Interview - 60 minute in person interview with members of our Senior Leadership Team.

If you would like to join us on our adventure, please apply! Cloudscaler are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, committed to equal opportunities regardless of gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ancestry, age, marital status, disability, parental status, religion or medical history. If you require reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please let us know when you speak to our Talent Acquisition team or contact talent@cloudscaler.com at the earliest opportunity.