Platform Architect – SC + NPPV3 Cleared

Project overview

Platform Architect – SC + NPPV3 Cleared

Whitehall Resources are currently looking for a Platform Architect – SC + NPPV3 Cleared on a Remote basis for an initial 12 month contract.

Job Description:

Cloud Solution Design:

Architecture Governance & Standards:

Technical Leadership:

Security & Compliance:

Infrastructure as Code (IaC):

Performance & Cost Optimisation:

Cloud Migration & Modernisation:

Stakeholder Engagement:

Troubleshooting & Escalation:

Continuous Improvement & Innovation:

All of our opportunities require that applicants are eligible to work in the specified country/location, unless otherwise stated in the job description.

Whitehall Resources are an equal opportunities employer who value a diverse and inclusive working environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, pregnancy, disability, age, veteran status, or other characteristics.

• Design scalable, secure, and highly available architectures using AWS services such as EC2,
• Lambda, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, IAM, VPC, and CloudFront.
• Select appropriate AWS services based on business requirements, performance needs, and
• cost considerations.
• Define and enforce cloud architecture best practices, patterns, and standards.
• Ensure solutions adhere to security frameworks, compliance rules, IAM principles, and AWS
• Well Architected Framework guidelines.
• Provide technical direction to engineering teams, developers, DevOps engineers, and data
• specialists.
• Review solution designs, perform architectural assurance, and guide teams through
• implementation challenges.
• Implement security controls including IAM policies, encryption, network segmentation,
• monitoring, and threat detection.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements (e.g., GDPR, ISO27001, PCI DSS) through AWS-native tools and architectural controls.
• Lead the adoption of IaC using tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK.
• Standardize reusable templates and modules for consistent and repeatable deployments across environments.
• Monitor workloads using tools like CloudWatch, Trusted Advisor, and Cost Explorer.
• Optimise infrastructure for performance, reliability, cost efficiency and operational excellence.
• Define migration strategies including rehosting, refactoring, replatforming, and
• containerisation.
• Design modern architectures involving microservices, serverless, APIs, and event driven patterns.
• Act as the technical counterpart to product owners, business stakeholders, and delivery
• managers.
• Communicate complex cloud concepts in clear, non technical language when needed.
• Provide advanced support for complex issues across application, infrastructure, and integration layers.
• Lead root cause analysis for high priority incidents involving AWS workloads.
• Stay current with new AWS services and architectural trends.
• Identify opportunities to modernise, automate, simplify, or improve existing cloud environments

Project details

• Start: flexible
• Location: England, GB