AWS Devops Lead /Architect
Kryptos Technologies limited London, England, United Kingdom
Information Technology & Services · 51-200 employees
About the role
Lead discovery workshops and infrastructure assessments to define cloud modernization roadmaps for AWS transformation programs. Design scalable, secure, and cost-optimized AWS architectures while providing technical leadership across infrastructure and DevOps teams.
What they look for
Requirements
Requires over 10 years of experience with deep expertise in AWS architecture, migration strategies, and Infrastructure as Code using Terraform. Candidates should be hands-on technical experts comfortable engaging with CXO stakeholders and managing complex enterprise cloud environments.
Full description
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.
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