Infrastructure Architect

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We're looking for someone who understands how modern AWS platforms integrate into a broader enterprise ecosystem. You'll be designing solutions that support critical airport operations and connect with established on-premise infrastructure, so a strong infrastructure background is just as important as cloud expertise.

You'll also need the diplomacy and leadership skills to bring different teams together, balancing the needs of developers, engineers, product teams and governance stakeholders to achieve the right outcome for the business.

Role: Infrastructure Architect (AWS)
Business Area: Technology
Location: Manchester Airport / Hybrid
Contract: Permanent

At MAG, we're transforming the technology that underpins some of the UK's busiest airports and travel businesses. As the UK's largest airport group, we own Manchester, East Midlands and London Stansted Airport, as well as operating CAVU, our travel technology and ecommerce business.

Technology plays a critical role in keeping our airports running safely, securely and efficiently. As we continue our cloud and infrastructure transformation, we're looking for an Infrastructure Architect who can help shape the platforms that support both today's operations and tomorrow's innovation.

This is an opportunity to influence enterprise-scale technology decisions, work across a complex hybrid estate, and partner with technical and business stakeholders to deliver solutions that are reliable, secure, commercially sound and fit for a regulated environment.

We're looking for an AWS-focused Infrastructure Architect to join our Platform Architecture team.

This role is about much more than designing cloud solutions. You'll help shape the future of MAG's technology landscape by creating infrastructure architectures that connect modern cloud platforms with critical on-premise services supporting our airports and wider business.

You'll bring a deep understanding of infrastructure fundamentals, cloud platforms and enterprise architecture principles. Whether your journey started in 1st, 2nd or 3rd line support, infrastructure engineering or platform architecture, you'll understand how technology works from the ground up and be comfortable turning business challenges into practical, scalable solutions.

Working with product teams, delivery teams and fellow architects, you'll provide technical leadership from concept through to implementation, ensuring solutions are secure, resilient, cost-effective and aligned to MAG's strategic direction.

• Design and own infrastructure architectures across AWS and MAG's wider hybrid technology estate.
• Translate business requirements into scalable, secure and cost-effective technical solutions.
• Partner with engineering, product, project and operational teams to deliver strategic technology outcomes.
• Provide architectural leadership throughout the delivery lifecycle, ensuring designs move successfully into implementation.
• Balance performance, resilience, governance and commercial considerations when making technology decisions.
• Contribute to platform roadmaps, technical standards and architecture governance processes.
• Review emerging technologies and assess their suitability for MAG's future platform strategy.
• Work with suppliers and partners to evaluate technologies, services and commercial options.
• Champion best practice across cloud, infrastructure and platform engineering disciplines.
• AWS certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect or AWS Dev Ops Engineer.
• TOGAF or equivalent architecture certification.
• Knowledge of security and compliance frameworks such as ISO
  27001 or NIST.

• Strong experience designing…