Architect I - AWS Cloud Infrastructure Architect

Job Summary

Role Overview We are seeking an experienced Architect to lead the discovery, architecture, design and validation of a reusable Environment-on-Demand (EoD) factory leveraging the Client s existing on-premises and cloud foundations. The role will focus on transforming the current environment management model into a scalable, automated, observable, and cost-attributable EoD capability.

Requirements

• Strong architecture experience across AWS, on-premises infrastructure, and preferably GCP.
• Hands-on expertise with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), preferably Terraform and reusable automation patterns.
• Strong experience with GitLab CI/CD, pipeline templates, automation, and DevOps practices.
• Understanding of environment provisioning, application deployment, configuration management, service dependencies, and virtualisation.
• Understanding on database provisioning, test-data management, masking and refresh strategies.
• Knowledge of cloud/on-prem networking, compute, storage, IAM, containers and Kubernetes.
• Experience designing observability, CMDB integration, cost management and chargeback/showback capabilities.
• Strong understanding of architecture governance, security, operational models and enterprise integration.
• Ability to assess existing platforms, identify constraints, and design reusable reference architectures and implementation patterns.
• Strong documentation, stakeholder management and technical leadership skills

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery of existing platform foundations, constraints, environment-booking processes, and current operating models.
• Assess application deployability, service dependencies, configuration, databases, test data, and virtualisation requirements.
• Working closely with customer stakeholders to understand priorities, constraints, expectations, and success criteria for the EoD platform.
• Liaise with customer architecture, Environment, Testing and project teams to understand the landscape, drive alignment, resolve technical dependencies and secure decisions required to finalise the design.
• Define the EoD reference architecture, reusable IaC patterns, and architecture/governance decisions across AWS, on-premises and GCP.
• Design and build reusable GitLab EoD pipeline templates and automation for environment provisioning and application deployment.
• Establish reusable patterns for configuration, virtualisation, test-data provisioning, sizing, cost attribution, and observability.
• Define the EoD governance, operating model, onboarding toolkit, and implementation guidance for project teams.
• Lead pilot implementation and validate observability, CMDB integration, cost attribution, operational readiness, and architecture compliance.
• Translate pilot outcomes into recommendations, identified gaps and risks, acceptance criteria, and a prioritised next-wave implementation backlog.

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