Cloud Architect

IBM

IBM

IT

London, UK

Posted on May 15, 2026
Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You’ll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you’ll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.

In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting FutureNow Centers, where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

Your role and responsibilities

Currently, we are looking for an AWS Architect to join our team in the UK

Your daily responsibilities:

  • Participating in various customer projects, from new infrastructure builds and migrations to audits and big data
  • Implementing configuration management infrastructure
  • Giving workshops and designing recommendations for a technical team
  • Becoming a trusted advisor for high-profile enterprise businesses and jointly manage the customer relationship and roadmap with the Nordcloud Sales team
  • Having a selection of different ‘hats’ to put on and have the luxury of following customer projects from start to release
Required education
None
Required technical and professional expertise

Your key skills:

  • Hands-on experience with Cloud Architecture Design and/or Cloud Architectural Patterns for Development
  • Advanced knowledge of AWS platform
  • Being able to see the bigger technical picture to drive the technical direction of a platform
  • Create low level designs that engineers can work from
  • Designing complex multi-tenant systems aligned to best practice
  • Designing, deploying and operating AWS landing zones (Landing Zone Accelerators)
  • Championing infrastructure as code and opinionated about IaC structure and modularisation
  • Scoping container/microservices to design Cloud solutions
  • Designing container-based solutions such as ECS, EKS, OCP
  • Kubernetes experience
  • Mitigating security risks in AWS and supporting a mature Cloud Security Model

Technically, you need to have considerable hands-on experience designing and implementing enterprise-scale cloud environments.

This role is of considerable technical difficulty so experience working in an enterprise-scale cloud platform engineering environment is essential.

You won't primarily be coding but shouldn't be totally adverse to being hands on committing code to turn some of their designs into reality (with the help of the cloud engineers).

You should be AWS certified with certifications such as the AWS Solutions Architect Associate or Professional.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Cloud Migration Expertise: Exposure to cloud migration projects, including assessment, design, and execution, with a focus on deploying and managing essential AWS resources. • Container Orchestration Skills: Proficiency in setting up and managing Kubernetes clusters through Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), enabling container orchestration and scaling. • Automation Tools Knowledge: Experience with automation tools like AWS CloudFormation or Terraform, and DevOps practices such as continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD).

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

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