The Role:.

The Cloud Architect will lead the technical design of the target-state API gateway platform. The role requires someone who can operate at the architecture level while retaining the hands-on depth to make credible design decisions about API behaviour, code patterns, and infrastructure configuration.
 

Key duties and responsibilities:

•       Lead the design of the target-state API gateway platform architecture, key architecture artefacts like the logical architecture and physical and operations architecture.

•       Define the logical request flow: how API calls traverse the gateway, including authentication, authorisation, throttling, caching, policy enforcement, and backend routing.

•       Design the physical infrastructure: AWS environments, networking (VPCs, subnets, security groups), IAM roles and policies, CloudFormation/CDK infrastructure-as-code patterns, and deployment topology.

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