About this role
Salary: £70,000 - 75,000 per year
Requirements
- SME-level experience designing, building, and operating production workloads in AWS, ideally including establishing a new environment with a landing zone, multi-account structure, identity, networking, and guardrails.
- Willingness to develop the ability to deliver in Microsoft Azure and a clear commitment to working across both AWS and Azure; prior Azure experience is a strong advantage.
- Strong hands-on Infrastructure-as-Code proficiency with Terraform and/or AWS CloudFormation or CDK, and ability to work with Bicep. IaC should be the default approach.
- Proven experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps and/or GitHub Actions.
- Proficiency in Python, PowerShell, and AWS and Azure CLIs for automation and operational tasks.
- Experience with AWS integration services including EventBridge, SQS, SNS, Step Functions, Lambda, and API Gateway, and ability to work with Azure Integration Services including Logic Apps, Service Bus, Event Grid, and API Management.
- Experience with AWS platform foundations, including AWS Organizations and Control Tower, IAM and IAM Identity Centre, VPC networking, and security services such as GuardDuty, Security Hub, and CloudTrail.
- Solid experience designing, developing, and securely managing SOAP and REST APIs.
- Experience using GitHub version control, including branching strategies and code review practices.
- AWS certifications are beneficial: AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate, AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional, or AWS Certified Security – Specialty. Demonstrable equivalent security engineering experience and a commitment to achieving the security certification are also relevant.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and build of our AWS landing zone and establish the standards for the platform.
- Design, build, and support Azure workloads while our AWS environment is being established.
- Develop solutions for complex requirements and lead architecture decisions.
- Represent the cloud function in project and client conversations.
- Set the technical benchmark for the team and contribute as its go-to cloud expert.
Technologies
- API
- AWS
- Lambda
- Architect
- Azure
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- DevOps
- GCP
- GitHub
- IAM
- Support
- PowerShell
- Python
- REST
- SOAP
- Security
- Spring
- Terraform
- Web
More
We are a global consultancy delivering strategic work and transformation for private and public sector clients worldwide. Our culture and values put our people at the forefront. This is an individual contributor role, not a people-management position, within a growing multi-cloud platform function: our current estate is on Azure, with AWS being established and GCP planned to follow. The role is based in Abingdon, with one day onsite per week, and offers a salary of £75,000 per year plus bonus and benefits. Benefits include life assurance, income protection, pension contributions, 27 days of annual leave plus bank holidays, a company-performance profit share typically paid in March and September, and social events including spring activity days, Christmas events, a two-day summer event, and four sponsored weekends each year. We offer opportunities for career progression and development.
last updated 45 week of 2026