Solution Architect - AWS in London

Join our team at the Guardian and be a part of a diverse and inclusive global organisation that delivers fearless, investigative journalism, and holds power to account. Our team of award-winning journalists, cutting-edge commercial professionals, and industry-leading digital experts are committed to making a difference and represent a wide range of backgrounds and perspectives. We offer a challenging and exciting environment for career development, with a focus on training, growth and fostering an inclusive culture.

We are now looking for an AWS Solution Architect to join us in the next phase of ourmulti-year, architecture-led transformation. As part of a newly created Enterprise Architecture function, the AWS Solution Architect will own the target and transition architectures for our cloud estate, ensuring that platforms are secure, scalable, cost-optimised and aligned to AWS best practice.

You will work closely with product, engineering and infrastructure teams to identify current-state risks, shape future-state patterns and steer delivery teams toward well-architected solutions. You’ll shape strategy by defining roadmaps, standards and reference architectures that future-proof GNM’s cloud landscape, acting as subject matter expert and mentor in the Enterprise Technology community.

About the Role:

• Deliver the cloud pillar of the Technology Strategy by developing and governing GNM’s AWS environments.
• Drive the adoption of modern, automated, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) approaches and embed the AWS Well-Architected Framework across the portfolio.
• Assess and model the estate, documenting the current AWS footprint, dependencies and technical debt.
• Lead design forums, proceeding options and making architecture decisions and balance risk, cost and delivery velocity
• Automate everything by championing IaC and GitOps pipelines to ensure repeatable, auditable deployments
• Embed security and resilience throughout the AWS environments, evangelise best practice and evaluate opportunities for innovation
• Lead cost optimisation, driving architecture decisions to meet performance objectives.

About You:

• Extensive experience in infrastructure and cloud architecture and demonstrated, hands on experience of AWS
• AWS certified, including AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional and AWS Certified Security
• Strong grasp of hybrid network & security design (e.g. Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, VPN, WAF, Zero-Trust, NIST
• Hands-on IaC experience, ideally with Terraform and/or CloudFormation; CI/CD & GitOps patterns
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, able to simplify complex ideas for non-technical audiences.

We operate in a hybrid environment working 3 days a week from our offices in Kings Cross and 2 days a week remotely.

We value and respect all differences (seen and unseen) in all people. We aspire to have inclusive working experiences and an environment that reflects the audience we serve, where our people have equal access to career development opportunities, their voices are heard and can contribute to our future. We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. Many of our staff work flexibly and we will consider all requests for flexible working arrangements.

How to Apply

To apply, please upload your latest CV and a cover letter which outlines why you’d love to take on this role, and why you’re a great match for what we’re looking for.

We appreciate the time taken to prepare each application we receive. We do not use AI-assisted technology to review applications; every application is reviewed by a member of our recruitment team.

The closing date for applications isFriday 25th July 2025.

All roles at the Guardian are open for everybody to apply. It is important to us that you feel supported and comfortable throughout your recruitment process, in order to perform your best. Please let us know if there are any changes we could make to help your application, this includes providing documents in accessible formats or personalising the process to better support your needs. Please contact Anna Vipers on to discuss further so we can work with you to support you through your application.

Benefits at the Guardian

You\'ll have 30 days of annual leave per year (plus bank holidays) with the option to purchase anadditional 5 days . Our pension scheme is generous; if you contribute 5% then we will contribute 8-12% (depending on your age). We believe in giving back, which is why employees are given 2 volunteering days annually and the option of payroll giving. Season ticket loans are also available.

You are entitled to private healthcare, life cover, income protection, and eye tests. You can also opt in to dental insurance.

We have enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave policies in place. We also support our employees by offering an IVF, menopause, baby loss, and trans equality policy.

Culture and Wellbeing

We want everyone to feel like they belong at the Guardian and we champion diversity of thought. Our various employee forums provide a platform to use their voice to foster an inclusive workplace. We became the first major media organisation to achieve B Corp status.

We offer tools to help you prioritise your wellbeing including access to our employee benefits platform which provides tailored support for health and wellbeing. In addition, we also offer free yoga and pilates classes. These run alongside our corporate gym membership and cycle to work scheme.

Our canteen has views overlooking the Regents Canal and caters for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Learning and Development

We encourage personal and professional growth. Employees have access to a broad range of tools and solutions, and we are happy to support the pursuit of professional qualifications through vocational courses and apprenticeships.