Skills

Leadership Python Bash Encryption Cloud Security GitLab CI/CD DevOps Kubernetes Monitoring Jenkins Architecture AWS AWS Cloud Terraform Prometheus Grafana Microservices

Job Specifications

AWS Technical Architect

Location: Remote (UK-based)

Contract: 12-month FTC, with a view to permanent

Security Clearance: Active SC required, transferrable

Amber Labs is looking for an experienced AWS Technical Architect to join us on a long-term engagement delivering secure, cloud-native solutions for a major UK government programme. This is a hands-on architecture role, suited to someone who enjoys setting technical direction, building robust platforms, and supporting teams to deliver at pace in high-assurance environments.

You’ll be responsible for designing and implementing scalable AWS architectures, establishing strong cloud foundations, and guiding engineering teams on best practice. The work is fully remote, but you must be UK-based with active SC clearance.

What you’ll be doing

Designing enterprise-grade AWS cloud architectures aligned to business and technical needs
Leading the implementation of AWS Control Tower and Landing Zone Accelerator in multi-account environments
Building and maintaining infrastructure using Terraform
Designing and deploying Kubernetes platforms using Amazon EKS
Defining cloud governance, security standards and compliance controls
Working closely with delivery teams to optimise cloud-native application design
Providing technical leadership, guidance and mentoring to engineers
Shaping disaster recovery and business continuity approaches for critical systems
Assessing and recommending new AWS services and improvements as platforms evolve

What we’re looking for

Essential

Strong, hands-on experience as an AWS Technical Architect
Deep knowledge of AWS services including EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, Lambda, RDS, CloudFormation and CloudWatch
Proven experience implementing AWS Control Tower and Landing Zone Accelerator
Expert-level Terraform experience in production environments
Solid Kubernetes experience, ideally with Amazon EKS
Strong understanding of cloud security, identity, encryption and compliance
Experience designing large-scale, cloud-native or microservices-based systems
Active SC clearance

Desirable

AWS Solutions Architect – Professional (required for the role)
AWS DevOps Engineer – Professional
CKA or CKAD
HashiCorp Terraform certification
Experience with CI/CD tooling such as AWS CodePipeline, Jenkins or GitLab
Monitoring and observability using tools such as CloudWatch, Prometheus or Grafana
Familiarity with the AWS Well-Architected Framework
FinOps and cloud cost optimisation experience
GitOps approaches using tools like ArgoCD or Flux
Strong scripting skills in Python or Bash

Why Amber Labs

Amber Labs is a fast-growing data and digital consultancy working on meaningful, high-impact public sector programmes. We offer genuinely flexible working, challenging technical problems, and the opportunity to move into a permanent role if that’s what you’re looking for.

If you’re an AWS architect who enjoys building secure, well-governed platforms and wants long-term stability with room to grow, we’d love to hear from you.

About the Company

Amber Labs is a partnership of highly-skilled consultants and technologists. We specialise in the evolution of Data Engineering, Cloud and Analytics. We focus on delivering value from our client's data using innovative approaches that reduce risk and delivery time, and that we are constantly improving through R&D. Amber Labs was founded on three key principles: An employee first internal culture, through diverse investment and exciting opportunities for our team, and a partnership structure ensuring everyone has an op... Know more