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Technical Architect - eSC/eDV Clearance
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Technical Architect - eSC/eDV Clearance
AWS Platform Technical Architect – IBM Consulting UK FutureNow
Introduction
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
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Work-life balance tools & policies:
- Flexible working approaches
- Sabbatical programs
- Paid paternity, maternity, and return-to-work schemes
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Traditional & enhanced benefits:
- 25 days holiday (in addition to public holidays)
- Private medical, dental & optical cover
- Online shopping discounts
- Employee Assistance Program
- Life assurance
- Group pension through salary sacrifice
Your Role & Responsibilities
We’re looking for an AWS Platform Technical Architect to design and lead 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.
- Play a key part in recruiting and building strong cloud-focused teams, including Nordcloud talent, ensuring the platform is delivered and operated to the highest standards.
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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 AWS CloudFormation.
- Collaborate closely with development teams on deployment and integration of AWS solutions.
- Contribute to cloud team growth, including Nordcloud recruitment and technical candidate evaluation.
- Promote DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and modern automation approaches.
- Define and implement observability strategies (e.g., CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana).
- Provide technical leadership and governance through design reviews and best-practice guidance.
- Support incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement across platform operations.
Preferred Education
- Bachelor’s Degree
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Required Technical & Professional Expertise
- Strong, hands-on expertise with AWS services (EC2, S3, VPC, RDS, 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 (assessment, design, execution).
Clearance: This role is subject to pre-employment screening under the UK Government’s Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). Additional National Security Vetting (NVS) (e.g., Security Check (SC) or Developed Vetting (DV)) may apply.
Preferred Technical & 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 (microservices, API-driven systems).
- Familiarity with security tooling and identity models (IAM, Zero Trust principles, secrets management).
- Experience working within regulated or enterprise environments (e.g., governance forums, TDA, design authority).
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