MAG (Airports Group)

Technical Solutions Architect

MAG (Airports Group)

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Manchester • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

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Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

Tech Stack

AWSCloudDockerEC2.NETPHPTerraform

About the role

  • Designing and implementing scalable, secure, and high-availability architectures across AWS cloud environments
  • Creating and maintaining architectural blueprints that support application development, infrastructure, and platform growth
  • Defining and driving infrastructure strategy, using Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform) and AWS-native services
  • Providing technical leadership and guidance to engineering teams, promoting best practices in cloud architecture, automation, and software design
  • Acting as a bridge between Development, SRE, and Product teams to ensure architectural alignment and clear communication
  • Embedding security and compliance best practices into all architectural designs
  • Maintaining clear, accessible architectural documentation and leading knowledge-sharing sessions across the business

Requirements

  • Proven experience designing solution architectures within cloud environments, ideally AWS
  • Strong knowledge of AWS services such as EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, and related tooling
  • Experience building scalable, secure, and resilient platforms
  • Familiarity with PHP or .NET, alongside containerisation technologies such as Docker and ECS
  • A solid understanding of security, resilience, and performance optimisation
  • Strong communication and leadership skills, with the ability to collaborate across multidisciplinary teams
  • A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field is welcome — but equivalent practical experience is just as valuable.
Benefits
  • 25 days holiday, increasing by 1 day per year with service (up to 28)
  • Option to buy up to 10 additional days’ annual leave, plus 4 flexible bank holidays
  • 10% company pension
  • Annual bonus scheme
  • On-site gym
  • MediCash scheme
  • A host of flexible benefits and discounts — including up to 50% off CAVU products such as Escape Lounges and Airport Parking
  • Rail and retail discounts
  • 2 paid volunteering days per year
  • Access to an internal events calendar including health & wellbeing activities, ID&E initiatives, and learning sessions
  • Formal and informal development opportunities, including mentoring programmes and learning grants
  • Enhanced parental leave (T&Cs apply)

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
AWSInfrastructure as CodeTerraformPHP.NETDockerECScloud architectureautomationsoftware designperformance optimisation
Soft skills
technical leadershipcommunicationcollaborationguidanceknowledge sharingbest practices promotioninterdisciplinary teamworkclear documentationproblem-solvingstrategic thinking