About the role
You will help clients move to the cloud and run it well. You will design secure, scalable and cost-aware environments on AWS or Azure, manage them as code, and keep them observable and reliable.
What you will do
- Design and build secure, scalable cloud environments on AWS or Azure
- Manage infrastructure as code with Terraform (or Bicep/CloudFormation)
- Plan and run migrations with minimal downtime
- Set up identity, networking, logging, backups and disaster recovery
- Monitor performance and cost, and recommend savings
- Apply cloud security best practice and landing-zone standards
- Document architectures and hand over clearly to support teams
Minimum qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- 5+ years running production workloads on AWS or Azure
- Current AWS Solutions Architect Associate or Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104)
- 3+ years with Terraform in production
- At least one completed migration to the cloud you can describe in detail
- Infrastructure-as-code you can show (repository or sample)
- English at CEFR C1 or above (IELTS 7.0 or equivalent)
Expert knowledge
- Landing-zone design: account structure, guardrails and policy as code
- Cloud networking: hub-and-spoke, Transit Gateway or Virtual WAN, private endpoints and hybrid DNS
- Identity and least privilege: IAM policy evaluation, roles and workload identity
- Disaster recovery design with tested RPO and RTO targets
Preferred qualifications
- AWS Solutions Architect Professional or Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305)
- HashiCorp Terraform Associate
- CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator)
- FinOps Certified Practitioner
Before any offer we verify your certificates, qualifications, references and right to work in the UK. Security roles also need background screening (BPSS) and may need security clearance.
SOWTK is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applicants of every background and do not discriminate on any characteristic protected by the Equality Act 2010.