Job Title: AWS API Technical Architect
Rate: £575p/d via Umbrella
Duration: 3-6 months (flexible on end date)
Location: Remote
Clearance required: SC (active and used in the last 12 months)
Nationality requirement: No dual-nationality restrictions
Job Description:
We are looking for an AWS API Engineer / Architect to design secure, scalable, and well-integrated API and microservices architectures across multiple client applications and services.
Key responsibilities are broadly expected to include:
- Design serverless and microservices-based API architectures on AWS
- Define and apply RESTful API design patterns and integration standards
- Support system and data integration across distributed services
- Assess and address technical debt, recommending pragmatic modernisation approaches
- Work closely with product teams to design solutions that align to their roadmap and support their needs
- Support deployment planning, cutover activities, and post?go?live stabilisation
- Collaborate with cybersecurity and delivery teams to ensure secure, observable solutions
- Design the integration of applications with identity providers and secure access patterns
The services used across these systems are likely to include:
- AWS Services (i.e. API Gateway, Lambda, Aurora RDS Postgres, EKS, ECR, STS, Route 53, VPC)
- Kubernetes
- CI/CD (e.g. GitHub, Jenkins)
- Prometheus, Grafana
- ELK
- Apollo GraphQL, TypeScript
- AWS Config, AWS Macie, AWS Guard Duty, AWS Security Hub, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon CloudTrail