Platform Architect - SC + NPPV3 Cleared

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.

*** MUST HOLD ACTIVE SC AND NPPV3 CLEARANCE ***

*** INSIDE IR35 ***

Job Description:

Cloud Solution Design:

• 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.

Architecture Governance & Standards:

• 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.

Technical Leadership:

• Provide technical direction to engineering teams, developers, DevOps engineers, and data
• specialists.
• Review solution designs, perform architectural assurance, and guide teams through
• implementation challenges.

Security & Compliance:

• 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.

Infrastructure as Code (IaC):

• Lead the adoption of IaC using tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK.
• Standardize reusable templates and modules for consistent and repeatable deployments across environments.

Performance & Cost Optimisation:

• Monitor workloads using tools like CloudWatch, Trusted Advisor, and Cost Explorer.
• Optimise infrastructure for performance, reliability, cost efficiency and operational excellence.

Cloud Migration & Modernisation:

• Define migration strategies including rehosting, refactoring, re-platforming, and
• containerisation.
• Design modern architectures involving microservices, serverless, APIs, and event driven patterns.

Stakeholder Engagement:

• Act as the technical counterpart to product owners, business stakeholders, and delivery
• managers.
• Communicate complex cloud concepts in clear, non technical language when needed.

Troubleshooting & Escalation:

• Provide advanced support for complex issues across application, infrastructure, and integration layers.
• Lead root cause analysis for high priority incidents involving AWS workloads.

Continuous Improvement & Innovation:

• Stay current with new AWS services and architectural trends.
• Identify opportunities to modernise, automate, simplify, or improve existing cloud environments