AWS Platform Architect – Birmingham

Overview

Salary: £100,000 – 100,000 per year

Requirements

• Experience in platform, infrastructure, or software engineering within SaaS environments
• Strong AWS expertise, including EKS, IAM, networking, KMS, RDS, and multi-account architecture
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, CI/CD, Terraform, and cloud security
• Strong understanding of SRE, observability, incident response, and disaster recovery
• Experience operating within regulated environments such as ISO 27001, SOC 2, or GxP
• Comfortable balancing strategic leadership with hands-on operational delivery
• AWS Solutions Architect – Professional certification required
• CKA or CKS certification highly desirable

Responsibilities

• Own our AWS platform architecture and modernisation roadmap, including migration from a Java monolith to microservices on EKS
• Define standards for containers, runtime environments, observability, tenancy, security, and infrastructure automation
• Lead our SRE practices, including SLI/SLOs, incident management, DR/BCP planning, post-mortems, and operational resilience
• Own platform security, secure SDLC, CI/CD pipelines, IaC, and software supply chain governance
• Drive developer productivity through automation, self-service tooling, and platform standardisation
• Provide senior oversight of our IT operations, including service desk governance, endpoint management, onboarding/offboarding, patching, ITAM, and MSP/vendor management
• Act as a senior escalation point for critical incidents, outages, and operational issues

Technologies

• AWS
• Architect
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• IAM
• Java
• Kubernetes
• Security
• Terraform
• microservices

More

We are partnering with a growing SaaS business to hire a senior Platform Architect in a hybrid role with a salary of £70,000-£100,000. This is a hands-on leadership position in a lean organisation, where we will modernise a legacy platform into a cloud-native environment and provide senior oversight across platform engineering, security, SRE, CI/CD, and operational IT.

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