Cloud Architect

Cloud Architect Duration - 6-12 months London - Remote £700 - £795 per day inside IR35 - umbrella Active SC cleared or eligible candidates will be considered Role overview/requirements: Design and maintain secure,…

Inside IR35 IT
Pay rate £700 – £795/day
Contract type Contract
Posted 30 September 2026

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Cloud Architect
Duration - 6-12 months
London - Remote
£700 - £795 per day inside IR35 - umbrella
Active SC cleared or eligible candidates will be considered

Role overview/requirements:

Design and maintain secure, scalable, resilient, and highly available AWS cloud architectures.
Define and implement Zero Trust architecture principles, including identity-centric access, least privilege, strong authentication, network segmentation, and continuous verification.
Design and govern multi-account AWS environments, including account structures, organisational units, guardrails, Service Control Policies, security controls, and account provisioning.
Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code best practices.
Develop reusable Terraform modules, automation patterns, and deployment standards.
Support and enhance enterprise landing zone capabilities, preferably using AWS Landing Zone Accelerator (LZA).
Design AWS networking solutions including VPCs, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, VPN, routing, DNS, firewalls, private connectivity, and network segmentation.
Work with AWS Organizations, Control Tower, IAM, SCPs, security services, logging, and compliance controls.
Integrate infrastructure automation with CI/CD pipelines and engineering delivery processes.
Work closely with engineering teams to troubleshoot issues, solve technical problems, and turn architectural designs into working solutions.
Take an active role in delivery and implementation, rather than operating solely at a high-level architecture or advisory level.
Participate in technical design reviews, proof-of-concepts,solution validation, and platform improvements.
Present architecture, technical designs, recommendations, and trade-offs clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Communicate complex technical concepts in a clear, practical, and outcome-focused manner.
Review existing AWS environments and recommend improvements across security, resilience, performance, operability, and cost optimisation.
Produce architecture documentation, standards, reference patterns, decision records, and technical roadmaps. If you receive suspicious outreach claiming to be from us, please contact us via the ManpowerGroup website

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