AWS Infrastructure and Compute Architect

AWS Infrastructure & Compute Architect****Company Overview

A global, technology-driven investment organisation is seeking an experienced AWS Infrastructure & Compute Architect to join its engineering function. The business operates a large-scale, performance-sensitive technology environment supporting computationally intensive workloads across multiple global locations.

Role Summary

This is an architect-level cloud engineering role focused specifically on AWS compute and infrastructure services.

The position is centred on designing and owning how AWS compute infrastructure is structured , rather than simply operating existing environments. Candidates with previous experience working directly for major cloud providers are particularly relevant.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect and own the strategy for AWS compute and infrastructure services

• Design scalable, resilient infrastructure patterns for large-scale compute workloads

• Define architecture around EC2, compute fleets, networking, and supporting AWS infrastructure

• Partner with infrastructure, platform, and research engineering teams on cloud architecture decisions

• Establish and improve Infrastructure as Code standards and practices

• Improve the cost efficiency, performance, scalability, and reliability of the AWS compute footprint

• Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance across cloud infrastructure initiatives

Required Experience

• Deep AWS expertise, particularly across EC2, compute fleets, and supporting infrastructure services

• Strong architecture and systems-design capability — able to design infrastructure rather than simply operate it

• Experience designing large-scale, production AWS environments

• Infrastructure as Code experience with Terraform, CloudFormation , or similar technologies

• Strong understanding of scalability, reliability, performance, and cloud infrastructure design

• Comfortable working across infrastructure, platform, and highly technical engineering stakeholders

Particularly Relevant Backgrounds

• Previous engineering or architecture experience within AWS or another major cloud provider

• Large-scale compute or HPC environments

• Cloud platform or infrastructure architecture

• Performance-sensitive or computationally intensive environments

• Building internal cloud platforms used by engineering or research teams