Principal Cloud Solutions Architect - R10210874
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UK CITIZENSHIP REQUIRED: Yes
RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: No
CLEARANCE TYPE: Highest UK government clearance
TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the time
Salary: £83,000 - £125,000
Define Possible at Northrop Grumman UK. Our mission is to solve complex challenges by shaping technology and solutions of tomorrow.
About Your Opportunity
As a critical part of Secure Cloud Solutions team, we support customers in refactoring, re-platforming and re-hosting mission-critical systems into AWS. You will deliver high-level agile architecture expertise, expand skillset, document solutions, coach, mentor engineers, run demonstrations, training sessions and document internal Knowledge Base articles.
Responsibilities
* Work with senior engineers and stakeholders to elicit functional and non-functional requirements, guide junior engineers through documentation, estimation and prioritisation.
* Produce system design documents, high and low level designs and operational concept descriptions.
* Implement large scale or complex technical solutions, ensuring appropriate documentation and testing.
* Coach and mentor junior engineers, contribute to Knowledge Base and Centres of Excellence.
* Set technical direction and standards for quality assurance across your project.
* Ensure task completion on schedule and budget, prioritise deliverables against financial limits.
* Produce high quality user documentation, concept of operations, security operating procedures, support guides and user guides.
* Lead investigation of complex issues, problems and defects, reporting to Tasking Manager.
Qualifications
* Experience within IT systems design, deployment and administration; recent roles in technical or team leadership positions.
* AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional level (additional relevant certifications desirable).
* Design, deploy and administer cloud-based solutions across AWS.
* Extensive experience administering Linux or Windows operating systems in large corporate environments.
* Extensive experience designing, deploying and troubleshooting IPv4 networking.
* Experience Infrastructure as Code using AWS CDK, CloudFormation or Terraform.
* Experience administering virtualised or containerised systems in Docker/Kubernetes.
* Experience working in complex or high security environments.
Desired Skills
* Implementation of CI/CD pipelines for DevOps deliveries.
* DevOps practices such as Git branching and release schedules.
* Secure network architecture design and configuration of routers and firewalls.
* Administration of Linux or Windows servers in large corporate environments.
* Use of configuration management services such as Ansible or Puppet.
* Agile delivery tools such as Jira and Confluence; Scrum or SAFE.
* ITIL-based Service Management delivery knowledge.
Job Details
* Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
* Employment type: Full-time
* Job function: Engineering and Information Technology
* Industries: Defense and Space Manufacturing
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