AWS Infrastructure Designer

AWS Infrastructure Designer Division: Defence Division Job Type: Contract/Interim Contact Phone: 01782 203040 Salary: Negotiable Location: East of England Ref #: OXB147033 Post Date: 19-03-2026 10:29 AM Apply Direct Our client is looking for a couple of AWS Infrastructure Designers to join their team on a six month initial contract, working three days a week onsite in Norwich and rest remotely. This role is Inside IR35. Your responsibilities: * Design end to end AWS cloud infrastructures including networking, compute, storage, security, and monitoring. * Create high level and low level architectural diagrams, infrastructure-as-code (IaC) templates, and design documents. * Evaluate and select AWS services that best fit functional and non functional requirements. * Build and optimize solutions using IaC tools such as Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, and CDK. * Ensure solutions adhere to reliability, performance, security, and cost optimization best practices. * Implement cost efficient designs leveraging autoscaling, serverless, spot instances, and managed services. * Work with solution architects, developers, security teams, and operations teams to ensure design feasibility. * Translate complex technical capabilities into clear concepts for non technical stakeholders. * Provide architectural guidance during project lifecycle-from conceptualization to production rollout. * Implement cloud security architecture covering IAM, VPC security, encryption, IAM roles, and compliance controls. * Ensure adherence to regulatory standards (ISO 27001, PCI DSS, GDPR, etc.) depending on industry needs. Essential skills/knowledge/experience: * Experience in architecting and building solutions to support highly available and Data solutions, batch processes, services and API's * Understanding of IAM policies and statements * AWS based capacity management and performance logging and monitoring solutions * AWS cost management * Scripting skills (Python, Ruby, Powershell, BASH) * Data Vault * Experience of writing/using terraform or AWS CDK at scale * Postgres SQL, Oracle MySQL/Aurora RDS, Redshift and other database/NoSQL Tech