Infrastructure/Cloud (AWS) Architect, Outside IR35, Hybrid at Sanderson Recruitment, Bristol, £Contract Rate

Infrastructure/Cloud (AWS) Platform Architect, Outside IR35, Hybrid
Hybrid - 1 day per week on site in Bristol.
Outside of IR35.
£500-£700 per day

Our client, a leading organisation based in Bristol, is looking to hire a Cloud Architect with an Infrastructure Architect background.

Experience of AWS Cloud Security and AWS Cloud networking would be highly beneficial.

The primary purpose of the role is to own and develop the technical architecture for our client's infrastructure.

Responsible for leading, developing and optimising infrastructure platforms to support our client's digital strategy. The successful candidate will focus on ensuring the technical architecture supports security, scalability, reliability and cost effectiveness across platforms.

The role holder will have technical authority for infrastructure architecture topics and will collaborate with the wider digital technology, engineering and architecture teams.

General responsibilities: -

• Mature infrastructure technical architecture, defining architectural standards and best practices for deployment and management
• Develop and maintain reference architecture assets, including roadmaps, blueprints.
• Lead architectural designs for secure and scalable infrastructure ensuring resilience and cost efficiency.
• Collaborate with security, compliance, and engineering teams to ensure seamless integration with existing and future infrastructure platforms
• Develop and mature robust technical governance for infrastructure and cloud.
• Advise on infrastructure topics, migration strategies and platform solutions, cloud native and hybrid.
• Support operational and engineering colleagues through identifying opportunities to simplify legacy systems, automate processes, and improve security and performance using cloud-native.
• Ensure compliance with relevant frameworks, including ISO 27001, PCI DSS.
• Support infrastructure capabilities internally through the mentoring of technical teams such as Digital Operations and Engineering, on design best practices, DevOps, and infrastructure-as-code approaches

Skills and experience required: -

• In-depth infrastructure expertise across security, networking, databases and storage.
• Experience with Windows
• Relevant exposure to leading cloud providers, in particular AWS.
• Virtualisation, containerisation, orchestration and serverless architectures
• Evidence of successfully simplifying legacy infrastructure and migrating to hybrid and cloud-native platforms
• Awareness and use of architectural frameworks

Reasonable Adjustments:

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