Senior AWS Platform Architect - active Security Clearance required.

Job Title: Senior AWS Platform Architect (Contract) - active UK Security Clearance required.

Location: London, UK (Remote with 1-2 days on-site per month)

Contract Length: 6 months, with potential extension

About Us

At Appvia, we empower customers to accelerate their journey to cloud and DevOps maturity. As a trusted leader in the industry, we deliver cutting-edge technologies and solutions tailored to support our clients' unique cloud adoption paths.

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Senior AWS Platform Architect to join our secure AWS platform team. In this role, you'll serve as the principal architect, designing scalable, resilient, and secure cloud platforms within an AWS environment. This position focuses heavily on solution design, with less emphasis on hands-on development, allowing you to shape critical architecture decisions and lead technical direction. Your expertise in AWS and Kubernetes, particularly in designing high-availability EKS multi-cluster architectures, will be essential.

Interview process - 3 stage

• Initial conversation with our Talent Acquisition Manager
• Interview with Appvia Leadership
• Final - Client Interview

Important

This is an urgent requirement for a public sector client and will require ACTIVE Security Clearance and NPPV3 approval.

Requirements

• Architectural Leadership: Act as the lead architect within a secure AWS platform team, focusing on designing scalable, resilient platform solutions for police applications.

• Technical Design: Develop highly available, multi-cluster EKS solutions, leveraging industry best practices in cloud architecture and security.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders, including civil servants, to define and align platform solutions with customer objectives.
• Technical Sales Support: Provide technical guidance during client engagements, explaining the benefits of proposed solutions in a clear and concise manner.
• Strategic Cloud Enablement: Guide customers through cloud-native adoption, educating them on cloud-native technologies and advocating for best practices in cloud and DevOps.
• Continuous Improvement: Evaluate new AWS services and emerging technologies, providing insights to drive innovation and improve Appvia’s internal solutions.

Skills and experience

• Platform Architecture Expertise: Demonstrated experience designing scalable, secure cloud platforms, particularly within AWS.
• AWS and Kubernetes Proficiency: Advanced knowledge of AWS architecture and services (Solutions Architect Professional certification preferred) and extensive experience with Kubernetes and EKS (Certified Kubernetes Administrator is a plus).
• Infrastructure as Code: Mastery of infrastructure-as-code practices and tools like Terraform and CloudFormation.
• Cloud-Native Solutions: Strong understanding of DevOps, CI/CD, and containerization best practices to support modern application development and deployment.
• Public Sector Experience: Experience engaging with public sector clients, understanding their unique challenges, and delivering tailored solutions.
• Technical Communication: Ability to communicate complex technical concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Thought Leadership: Commitment to staying current with industry trends, contributing to knowledge sharing, and driving best practices within the team.

Benefits

Why join Appvia?

We are a self-funded, London based startup; providing businesses with a fast and secure way to deploy containerised applications into the cloud.

We are on a mission to enable organisations to make cloud-based software delivery simple and efficient, whilst having the insights into costs, security and cadence. As a company that holds customers at the heart of everything we do, we are looking for candidates that want to make a real change to how Dev and Ops is working in the industry.

With us our customers, like the UK’s Home Office & Bank of England, are harnessing cloud-native technologies, limiting the challenges of infrastructure management and rapidly delivering digital products.

What’s on offer?

✨ We’re mindful - you’ll have flexibility to work from our dog-friendly Barbican office, your home or a combination of both - with flex hours to make work & home, work well

🎒We want you to grow - you’ll be joining an exceptional team who will is pro-active when it comes to learning and knowledge sharing.

🎉 We’re fun - Dog friendly office, wear what makes you comfortable, free snacks in the office, regular team socials, board game nights, industry meetups, pool table & ping pong table!

But don’t just take our word for it, you can check out what our Appvian's say about us on Glassdoor and by following us on LinkedIn, Twitter and Tik Tok.

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and actively encourage, respect, and recognise diversity of thought and background throughout the business. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, or veteran, neurodiversity, and disability status.

Note: While all roles are active and approved at the time of posting, the dynamic nature of our start-up means some applications may be processed to pipeline talent for future opportunities rather than current openings. We will strive to keep you informed of any changes to the status of your application.