Senior AWS Security Architect

Job Title: AWS Security Architect

Location: Fully Remote

Employment Type: 9 month contract (View to go perm)

Rate: £500 - £550 per day (Inside IR35)

Start Date: Immediate

Industry: IT Services & Consulting

We’re supporting a large-scale AWS transformation programme and are looking for an experienced AWS Security Architect to take ownership of cloud security across design, implementation, and migration.

This is a hands-on role at the centre of a major AWS estate build, including Landing Zones, IAM design, security guardrails, and large-scale workload migration.

AWS Security Architect – Key Responsibilities

• Designing and embedding AWS security architecture (IAM, RBAC, SCPs, encryption, logging)
• Building and securing AWS Landing Zones and multi-account environments
• Implementing MFA, identity federation, Conditional Access (Entra ID)
• Configuring CloudTrail, GuardDuty, Security Hub, Config, KMS
• Supporting large migration programmes (200+ workloads)
• Ensuring alignment to CIS benchmarks, public-sector security standards
• Supporting hypercare, monitoring, alerting and incident triage

AWS Security Architect – Key Skills Required

• Experience in a Lead Security Architect role for an AWS migration project (desirable)
• Strong hands-on AWS security engineering background.
• Deep IAM / RBAC / SCP / AWS Organizations experience.
• Experience with MFA, Conditional Access, Entra AD federation.
• Knowledge of CIS, compliance, encryption, KMS, RPO/RTO.
• Experience enabling GuardDuty, Security Hub, CloudTrail, Config.
• Exposure to migration-scale security validation.

Please apply now if this role is of interest.