AWS Platform Architect

17918
📍 Birmingham, Warwickshire, United Kingdom 💼 Full-time 🕒 Posted June 26, 2026

Job Description

Platform Architect Hybrid £70,000-£100,000 About the Role: We're partnering with a growing SaaS business to hire a senior Platform Architect to own the design, security, reliability, and operational management of their AWS platform and internal IT function. This is a hands-on leadership role in a lean organisation where you'll shape cloud architecture, modernise a legacy platform into a cloud-native environment, and provide senior oversight across platform engineering, security, SRE, CI/CD, and operational IT. Key Responsibilities: Own the AWS platform architecture and modernisation roadmap, including migration from a Java monolith to microservices on EKS. Define standards for containers, runtime environments, observability, tenancy, security, and infrastructure automation. Lead SRE practices including SLI/SLOs, incident management, DR/BCP planning, post-mortems, and operational resilience. Own platform security, secure SDLC, CI/CD pipelines, IaC, and software supply chain governan...

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Job Details

  • Location Birmingham, Warwickshire
  • Job Type Full-time
  • Category other-general
  • Posted Date June 26, 2026
  • Application Deadline August 05, 2026