Technical Architect - eSC/eDV Clearance

At IBM Consulting UK FutureNow, you'll build a career at the forefront of hybrid cloud and AI, working with leading clients across the public and private sectors. You'll collaborate with top industry professionals, gain hands-on experience with cutting-edge technologies, and deliver solutions that create real business impact. From day one, you'll work on meaningful, high-profile programmes that stretch your skills and accelerate your growth. We invest heavily in you--supporting continuous learning, in-demand skills development, and long-term career progression. You'll thrive in a flexible, inclusive environment that values curiosity, encourages reinvention, and recognises what makes you unique.

We offer:

• Tools and policies to support your work-life balance from flexible working approaches, sabbatical programs, paid paternity leave, maternity leave and an innovative maternity returners scheme.
• More traditional benefits, such as 25 days holiday (in addition to public holidays), private medical, dental & optical cover, online shopping discounts, an Employee Assistance Program, life assurance and a group pension plan through salary sacrifice.

Your role and responsibilities:

We’re looking for an AWS Platform Technical Architect to design and lead the delivery of scalable, secure and high‑performing AWS solutions. This is a high‑impact role where you’ll shape cloud architecture, drive major platform decisions and work with cutting‑edge AWS technologies that support mission‑critical services. You’ll also play a key part in recruiting and building strong cloud‑focused teams, including Nordcloud talent, to ensure the platform is delivered and operated to the highest standards.

As an AWS Technical Architect, you will design AWS‑based architectures that align to business requirements, ensuring scalability, reliability and security. You’ll bring deep expertise across core AWS services such as EC2, S3, VPC, RDS and EKS, along with strong experience in Linux and VMware. You will architect infrastructure, guide cloud migrations, optimise costs and ensure platform resilience through HA and DR configurations. Your skills in Terraform, AWS CloudFormation and DevOps practices will enable automated, consistent delivery across environments.

Key Responsibilities:

• Architect scalable, secure and high‑availability AWS solutions aligned to business needs.
• Design and configure EC2, S3, VPC, RDS, ELB/ALB and other core AWS services.
• Deploy, manage and optimise Kubernetes clusters via EKS.
• Monitor AWS environments, troubleshoot issues and ensure strong HA/DR readiness.
• Implement and enforce security standards, compliance controls and best practices.
• Optimise AWS spend through right‑sizing, usage analysis and cost‑effective design.
• Drive cloud migration assessments, designs and execution.
• Build and maintain automated infrastructure using Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Collaborate closely with development teams on deployment and integration of AWS solutions.
• Contribute to cloud team growth, including Nordcloud recruitment and technical evaluation of candidates.
• Promote DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines and modern automation approaches across delivery teams.
• Define and implement observability strategies including logging, monitoring and alerting (e.g. CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana).
• Provide technical leadership and governance through design reviews, architecture boards and best practice guidance.
• Support incident response, root cause analysis and continuous improvement across platform operations.

Required technical and professional expertise:

• Strong, hands‑on expertise with AWS services including EC2, S3, VPC, RDS and EKS.
• Experience with Terraform and infrastructure‑as‑code automation.
• Experience with Nordcloud recruitment or cloud‑focused hiring processes.
• Strong knowledge of Linux and VMware.
• Proven ability to design secure, scalable cloud architectures.
• Experience operating HA/DR configurations and troubleshooting AWS environments.
• Familiarity with DevOps practices and CI/CD workflows.
• Experience with cloud migration projects across assessment, design and execution.

This role is subject to pre-employment screening in line with the UK Government’s Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). An additional range of Personal Security Controls referred to as National Security Vetting (NVS) may apply, this could include meeting the eligibility requirements for The Security Check (SC) or Developed Vetting (DV).

Preferred technical and professional experience:

• Experience with multi‑account AWS environments and landing zone design (e.g. AWS Organizations, Control Tower).
• Exposure to observability and monitoring tooling (e.g. CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack).
• Experience designing or supporting container‑based application architectures beyond infrastructure (microservices, API‑driven systems).
• Familiarity with security tooling and identity models (IAM, Zero Trust principles, secrets management).
• Experience working within regulated or enterprise environments, including governance forums (e.g. TDA, design authority).

IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal‑opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.