***SC CLEARED***
AWS Architect
6 Month contract initially
Based: Remote (Occasional travel to London, circa 1 day per month)
£Market rates p/d via Umbrella
We have a great opportunity with a world leading organisation where you will be provided with all of the support and development to succeed. A progressive organisation where you can really make a difference. We have a great opportunity for a number of AWS Architects on a long term program of work.
Key Responsibilities:
Solution Architects are required for one of the largest AWS based developer platforms in the UK, which supports 100+ teams and runs multiple critical workloads. The work our architect's take on is split into three key areas. Firstly, architects pick up new requirements from our teams, understand their needs, proposing options and getting the design governed and into delivery teams. Due to the scale of the platform, solutions often touch multiple areas and close working with other architects is essential to ensure 'tribal knowledge' is exploited. The second area is supporting teams with delivery and service. Inevitably delivery teams encounter problems in delivering against the roadmap or with incidents that need architect support to analyse and resolve. Lastly, architects work on longer term strategies or ad hoc pieces of work delegated by the Senior Management Team.
Key Skills & Experiences:
* Strong understanding of core AWS services; VPCs, subnets, EC2, lambda, s3, route 53, VPC endpoints
* Good understanding of networking - TCP/IP, DNS, routing, proxy patterns
* Good understanding of containers and Kubernetes (does not require detailed Kubernetes knowledge, more the broad architecture)
* Design documentation skills
* Influencing, negotiating & pragmatism - getting designs through assurance processes
* Problem solving and options analysis
* Evidence based decision making
* Excellent communication skills, ranging from getting a junior engineer's input into a design to explaining a complex technical issue to a senior leader
This is an excellent opportunity on a great project of work, If you are looking for your next exciting opportunity, apply now for your CV to reach me directly, we will respond as soon as possible.
Due to the nature and urgency of this post, candidates holding or who have held high level security clearance in the past are most welcome to apply. Please note successful applicants will be required to be security cleared prior to appointment which can take up to a minimum 10 weeks.