Cloud Bridge Tech Recruitment
Senior AWS Solution Architect (Modernisation)
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Senior AWS Solution Architect - Up to £95,000
Fully Remote - UK
At Cloud Bridge, we are one of the fastest-growing and most dynamic AWS partners, transforming how businesses leverage AWS cloud services. We specialise in cloud consultancy, managed services, cloud governance, FinOps, and AI/ML to help organisations unlock the full potential of AWS.
Recognised as AWS's Rising Star Partner of the Year for 2023 in EMEA and 2022 in the UK&I, we’re expanding globally with new offices in Australia, South Africa, Singapore, and Dubai, a strong presence in the Philippines, and our HQ in the UK.
We’ve managed hundreds of cloud migrations, architectural projects, cost optimisations, and support services for a diverse range of customers, from start-ups to public sector organisations. As an AWS Premier Partner, we enhance IT experiences for clients across various sectors. If you're ready to make a difference and join an exciting journey with Cloud Bridge and AWS, we want to hear from you.
Role Overview
As a Senior AWS Solution Architect, you’ll work with customers to modernise legacy applications and databases as they migrate to AWS. You will be a technical authority in designing and delivering cloud-native architectures, serverless solutions, application and database modernisation strategies. This role combines hands-on technical work, customer consulting, and practice development, helping us define and scale modernisation offerings.
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Key Responsibilities
Customer Engagement & Solution Design
- Engage with customers to understand their legacy application and database environments.
- Define modernisation strategies, focusing on database migration, re-platforming, and serverless adoption.
- Design AWS architectures that are scalable, secure, and cost-optimised.
- Act as a trusted advisor, providing technical leadership to both internal teams and customers.
Cloud-Native & Serverless Adoption
- Architect solutions leveraging AWS Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions, and EventBridge.
- Support customers in breaking down monolithic applications into microservices.
- Define event-driven and asynchronous processing patterns to improve scalability.
Infrastructure as Code & DevOps
- Automate database deployments using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, and AWS CDK.
- Integrate database changes into CI/CD pipelines using tools like Flyway or Liquibase.
- Define observability and monitoring strategies using CloudWatch, X-Ray, and Prometheus.
Required Skills & Experience
Technical Expertise
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) – Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK.
- Cloud-Native & Serverless – AWS Lambda, Step Functions, API Gateway, EventBridge.
- AI/ML tooling such as Agentic AI, LLM's, or using Amazon Quick or Kiro.
- DevOps & CI/CD – GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, database schema versioning (Flyway/Liquibase).
- AI-Powered development experience.
- Security & Compliance – IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, AWS Backup, GDPR considerations.
- Performance Tuning & Optimisation – Query tuning, indexing, caching, connection pooling.
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Consulting & Leadership Skills
- Proven experience in customer-facing solution architecture or technical consulting.
- Strong ability to communicate complex technical concepts to business and technical stakeholders.
- Experience leading technical teams and mentoring engineers.
- Ability to define modernisation roadmaps and business cases.
Desirable Skills (Nice-to-Have)
- Experience with Redshift, Neptune, Timestream, or other AWS data services.
- Knowledge of multi-cloud (GCP/Azure) and hybrid cloud environments.
- Familiarity with machine learning & analytics pipelines on AWS.
- Experience working on AWS MAP-funded modernisation projects.
Benefits
- 25 Days Paid Time-off
- Birthday Leave
- Company Bonus Scheme
- Flexible Working
- Early Friday Finish (Monthly)
- Company Laptop and Peripherals
- Company Sabbatical Scheme
- Personalised Training & Development Plan
- Annual Wellness Allowance
- Company Events
- Private Health Insurance
- Wellbeing support
- Mental Health Champions
- Calm app subscription
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