Aws Cloud Architect

**Purpose of position**:
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced AWS Cloud Architect with the potential to lead and manage our AWS CoE team in the future. You will play a critical role in shaping our cloud strategy, providing guidance to teams, and ensuring best practices are followed in AWS architecture and deployment. You will be responsible for designing and implementing AWS solutions, creating governance frameworks, and driving innovation within our organization.

**Key Tasks**:

- Develop and evolve our AWS cloud strategy, ensuring alignment with business objectives and industry best practices.
- Design and architect AWS solutions that are scalable, secure, and cost-effective.
- Create and maintain governance frameworks, security policies, and compliance standards for AWS deployments, and ensure that they are followed across the organization.
- Implement strategies for optimizing AWS costs while maintaining performance and reliability, such as implementing AWS Cost Explorer and Trusted Advisor recommendations.
- Promote automation and DevOps practices to streamline cloud operations, improve agility, and reduce manual tasks
- Lead and manage the AWS CoE team, including architects, engineers, and administrators, to ensure efficient and effective cloud operations.
- Collaborate with the security team to ensure that AWS environments meet all necessary security and compliance requirements.
- Implement and maintain monitoring and performance optimization tools and processes to ensure AWS resources are performing efficiently.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, providing guidance, training, and support to developers and other stakeholders.

**Skills and expertise**:

- Proven experience in architecting, designing, and implementing AWS solutions.
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect or similar certification is preferred.
- Strong knowledge of AWS services, in particular ECS, EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, API Gateway, Cloudfront, Kinesis, Networking.
- Knowledge of Terraform, Terragrunt and Atlantis.
- Excellent understanding of cloud security best practices and compliance requirements.
- As this position has leadership potential, nice to have experience in leading and managing a team of cloud professionals.
- Strong problem-solving and communication skills.
- Ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment.
- Excellent organizational and project management skills.

**Our Offer**:

- **Flexi-Week and Work-Life Balance**:We prioritize your mental health and wellbeing, offering you a flexible four-day Flexi-Week at full pay and with no reduction on your annual holiday allowance. We also offer a variety of different paid special leaves.
- **Flexi-Office**:Do you prefer to work from our cool office, from home, or in a completely different environment? With us, the choice is yours. We offer the flexibility to work wherever you want within our Awin locations.
- **Welfare**: We provide you with a life assurance, travel insurance and private health insurance that covers several types of health, vision, and dental treatments. Furthermore, you can take advantage of our Cycle to Work Scheme or Season Ticket Loan.
- **Health & Well Being**:With our support and access to various initiatives and sports offers, you can devote yourself to your mental and physical well-being.
- **Development**:We've built our extensive training suite Awin Academy to cover a wide range of skills that nurture you professionally and personally, with trainings conveniently packaged together to support your overall development. You can also improve your English skills by participating in our local language course.
- **Remote Working**:You will receive a monthly allowance to cover part of your running costs. In addition, we will support you in setting up your remote workspace appropriately.
- **Appreciation**:Thank and reward colleagues by sending them a voucher through our peer-to-peer program and show your appreciation for colleagues who have gone the extra mile to support you.

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