AWS Devops Lead/Architect
Kryptos Technologies limited Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Information Technology & Services · 51-200 employees
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About the role
Lead discovery workshops and infrastructure assessments to define modernization roadmaps for cloud transformation programs. Design scalable, secure AWS architectures and provide technical leadership across infrastructure, DevOps, and security teams.
What they look for
Requirements
Requires over 10 years of experience with hands-on expertise in AWS architecture, migration, and Infrastructure as Code using Terraform. Candidates should be comfortable engaging with client architects and CXO stakeholders to drive platform standardization.
Full description
Tasks
Job Title : Senior AWS DevOps Lead (Architect)
Experience :10+ Years Overall Experience
Location: London,
Duration: 3 months
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.
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