Technical Architect - eSC/eDV Clearance in Leicester

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 Amazon EKS.
• Monitor environments, troubleshoot issues and ensure HA/DR readiness.
• Implement and enforce security standards, compliance controls and best practices.
• Optimise 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 AWS CloudFormation.
• Collaborate closely with development teams on deployment and integration of AWS solutions.
• Contribute to cloud team growth, recruitment and technical evaluation of candidates.
• Promote DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines and modern automation approaches.
• Define and implement observability strategies including logging, monitoring and alerting.
• Provide technical leadership and governance through design reviews and architecture boards.
• Support incident response, root cause analysis and continuous improvement across platform operations.

Qualifications

• Required technical and professional experience:
• Strong, hands‑on expertise with AWS services including EC2, S3, VPC, RDS and EKS.
• Experience with Terraform and infrastructure‑as‑code automation.
• Solid 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.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent.

• Preferred technical and professional experience:
• Experience with multi‑account AWS environments and landing zone design (AWS Organizations, Control Tower).
• Exposure to observability and monitoring tooling (CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack).
• Experience designing or supporting container‑based application architectures beyond infrastructure.
• Familiarity with security tooling and identity models (IAM, Zero Trust, secrets management).
• Experience working within regulated or enterprise environments.

Benefits

• Flexible working approaches, sabbatical programs, paid paternity leave, maternity leave and an innovative maternity returners scheme.
• 25 days holiday (in addition to public holidays), private medical, dental & optical cover, online shopping discounts, Employee Assistance Program, life assurance and a group pension plan through salary sacrifice.

Equal Opportunity Employer: IBM is an equal‑opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age or other characteristics protected by law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status. This role is subject to pre‑employment screening in line with the UK Government's Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). Additional Personal Security Controls may apply.