AWS Solutions Architect Jobs in the UK (No ghost jobs, direct from employers)

Introduction

At IBM Consulting UK FutureNow, you'll build a career at the forefront of hybrid cloud and AI, working with leading clients across the public and private sectors.

You'll collaborate with top industry professionals, gain hands on experience with cutting edge technologies, and deliver solutions that create real business impact. From day one, you'll work on meaningful, high profile programmes that stretch your skills and accelerate your growth.

We invest heavily in you-supporting continuous learning, in demand skills development, and long term career progression. You'll thrive in a flexible, inclusive environment that values curiosity, encourages reinvention, and recognises what makes you unique.

We offer:

• Tools and policies to support your work-life balance from flexible working approaches, sabbatical programs, paid paternity leave, maternity leave and an innovative maternity returners scheme
• More traditional benefits, such as 25 days holiday (in addition to public holidays), private medical, dental & optical cover, online shopping discounts, an Employee Assistance Program, life assurance and a group pension plan through salary sacrifice.

In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

Your role and responsibilities

IBM is seeking an experienced AWS Solutions Architect to support its UK Public Sector account, delivering secure, scalable and resilient cloud solutions across government and defence environments. The role will play a key part in designing and implementing cloud architectures that support digital transformation, application modernisation and the delivery of mission-critical services.

Working closely with public sector clients, technical teams, security specialists and delivery stakeholders, the successful candidate will translate complex business and technical requirements into robust AWS solutions that align with UK government security standards, MOD requirements and established cloud architecture best practices.

The ideal candidate will bring strong AWS technical expertise, a security-first approach to architecture, and an understanding of the governance, compliance and assurance requirements associated with sensitive public sector workloads. Experience designing secure cloud environments, implementing Infrastructure as Code, supporting cloud migrations and applying the AWS Well-Architected Framework will be essential.

Candidates must hold valid UK SC Security Clearance and be able to meet any additional security requirements applicable to the engagement.

Required education

None

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Proven experience designing secure, scalable AWS cloud architectures, with strong knowledge of core services including EC2, S3, VPC, IAM and RDS.
• Experience delivering cloud solutions within UK public sector or defence environments, aligned with government security, governance and compliance requirements.
• Strong understanding of cloud security, including encryption, access controls, network security and secure-by-design principles.
• Knowledge of cloud migration, Infrastructure as Code, DevSecOps, high availability and disaster recovery.
• Ability to translate public sector requirements into robust technical designs, manage architectural risks and collaborate with technical teams, security specialists and client stakeholders.
• Must hold valid UK SC Security Clearance and meet applicable MOD security requirements.

This role is subject to pre-employment screening in line with the UK Government's Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). An additional range of Personal Security Controls referred to as National Security Vetting (NVS) may apply, this could include meeting the eligibility requirements for The Security Check (SC) or Developed Vetting (DV).

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Advanced knowledge of AWS architecture, multi-account environments and the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
• Experience with AWS security services, including IAM, KMS, GuardDuty, Security Hub and AWS Config.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, CI/CD pipelines and automated infrastructure deployment.
• Knowledge of hybrid-cloud connectivity, VPC networking, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect and private connectivity.
• Experience designing resilient, highly available and disaster-recovery solutions for enterprise and public sector workloads.
• Familiarity with AWS Control Tower, AWS Organizations, governance guardrails and cloud cost optimisation.
• Experience with containers and cloud-native services, including Amazon ECS, EKS and Lambda.

Desirable Certifications

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional
• AWS Certified Security - Specialty
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional
• AWS Certified Advanced Networking - Specialty

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM's consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients' businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

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ABOUT IBM

IBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we're also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it's time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

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