AWS Devops Lead /Architect
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Summary
London-based contract role (3+ months, extendable) for a senior AWS DevOps lead/architect: runs cloud discovery workshops, designs secure and cost-optimized AWS architectures, sets IaC standards with Terraform/CloudFormation, builds CI/CD pipelines, and leads enterprise cloud migrations while advising client stakeholders.
Tasks
Job Title : Senior AWS DevOps Lead (Architect)
Location: London
Duration: 3 months+ with possible extension
10+ years of experience
Key Responsibilities
- Lead discovery workshops and infrastructure assessments for cloud transformation programs.
- Analyze existing on-premise and cloud environments and define modernization roadmaps.
- Design scalable, secure, resilient, and cost-optimized AWS architectures.
- Create high-level and low-level designs (HLD/LLD) for infrastructure and platform solutions.
- Lead migration planning, dependency analysis, and workload onboarding to AWS.
- Define Infrastructure as Code (IaC) standards using Terraform and CloudFormation.
- Design and implement CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
- Provide technical leadership across infrastructure, DevOps, security, and operations teams.
- Drive platform standardization, governance, and operational best practices.
- Act as a trusted advisor for customers during architecture reviews and solutioning discussions.
Requirements
Mandatory Skills
- AWS Architecture and Solution Design
- AWS Landing Zone & Multi-Account Strategy
- Infrastructure Discovery & Assessment
- Cloud Migration & Modernization
- Terraform (Mandatory)
- CloudFormation
- Kubernetes / Amazon EKS
- Docker
- CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps)
- Networking (VPC, Transit Gateway, VPN, Direct Connect)
- Security (IAM, Security Hub, GuardDuty, WAF)
- Monitoring (CloudWatch, Grafana, Prometheus)
Preferred AWS Services
- EC2, VPC, IAM, Route53
- ECS, EKS, Lambda
- S3, EFS, FSx
- RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB
- CloudWatch, CloudTrail
- Systems Manager
- AWS Organizations
- Control Tower
Certifications
- AWS Solutions Architect Professional (Preferred)
- AWS DevOps Engineer Professional
- AWS Security Specialty (Good to Have)
Ideal Candidate Profile
- Strong hands-on architect with the ability to perform discovery, assessment, solutioning, and implementation.
- Comfortable engaging with client architects, infrastructure teams, and CXO stakeholders.
- Able to define migration strategies, architecture patterns, and DevOps operating models.
- Hands-on technical expert, not just a coordinator or project manager.
- Experience supporting large enterprise cloud transformation programs across multiple geographies.