Security Architect - AWS

Salary: £70,000 - 85,000 per year

Requirements

• Proven experience as a Security Architect within AWS cloud environments
• Strong hands-on knowledge of AWS security services and cloud security best practices
• Experience with NIST or similar security frameworks
• Knowledge of DLP, encryption, and security hardening
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
• Able to hit the ground running in a fast-paced contract environment

Responsibilities

• Assess our current AWS security architecture and design improvements to strengthen our security posture
• Define and enhance security controls across encryption, Data Loss Prevention, and image hardening
• Produce security architecture, standards, and recommendations aligned to NIST best practice
• Design security governance and change management processes across our cloud environments
• Provide technical guidance to engineering teams and support the delivery of security uplift initiatives
• Work across multiple workstreams and adapt priorities as programme requirements evolve

Technologies

• AWS
• Architect
• Cloud
• Support
• Security

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We are a global, technology-first organisation delivering a major cloud security transformation programme. This is a hands-on AWS Security Architect contract role based remotely in the UK, offered as a 6-month contract outside IR35 with a competitive daily rate. We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, or age.

last updated 29 week of 2026