Job Description
AWS Cloud Architect| 6 Month Contract (with extensions) | (Outside IR35) | Hybrid (Edinburgh) | Starting ASAP
Scotland based candidates please
Day Rate: £650
Job Description:
Harvey Nash's public sector client is recruiting for an AWS Cloud Architect. They are embarking on a new Cloud IT project migrating our key applications over to AWS Cloud Technologies.
Main Duties:
You will:
* Work within an architecture team to:
o Analyse and assess the existing on-premises IT estate.
o Define an alternative hosting strategy within Amazon Web Services.
o Develop a roadmap for migration of core services to cloud.
o Define a migration strategy.
* Undertake structured analysis of technical issues and translate into technical solutions
* Identify improvements, enhancements, risks and issues.
* Look for opportunities to define reusable components and patterns
* Communicate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
* Ensure all architecture is secure by design and adheres to best practice.
* Work alongside in house application developers, engineers, designers and testers to ensure optimal solution and implementations.
* Provide cloud migration subject matter expertise.
This role is focused on the strategic cloud migration work within the programme:
* Work directly with stakeholders to understand the problem and identify opportunities and risks associated with migrating from on-premise to Amazon Web Services.
* Collect and define technical requirements to enable cloud migration to support business process and integrations with back office on-premise systems,
* Identify and advise on technical architecture with supporting rationale/ evidence.
Essential Skills & Experience:
* Strong written communication and presentation skills, with the ability to present ideas clearly and at short notice to a mix of technical and business audiences.
* Strong stakeholder management skills, comfortable dealing with challenge and ambiguity.
* Experience assessing on-premise services and identifying alternative, Highly Available, scalable and secure AWS hosting strategies for both commercial off the shelf products and in-house developed Java applications.
* Experience integrating and managing Active Directory services in conjunction with AWS WorkSpaces
* Experience defining CI\CD processes using AWS developer tools such as CodeBuild, CodeDeploy and CodePipeline.
* In-dept experience identifying and defining security controls within AWS.
* Experience defining AWS migration strategy.
* Identify roles, operating model and service management for the cloud hosting environment.
Technologies
* Amazon Web Services platform architecture and infrastructure development, deployment and maintenance using the AWS toolset.
* Understanding of modern operating systems, virtualisation technologies, data storage and management systems.
* Understanding of modern software development frameworks.
* Understanding of SOAP and REST APIs, API Gateways & API Management.
* Hosting commercial off the shelf and in-house developed (Java) applications in AWS.
* Experience identifying suitable compute hosting strategies such as IaaS or Containerisation
Desirable Skills:
* Proficiency in Terraform to deliver infrastructure as code.
* Oracle DB technology and alternative hosting strategies.
* Understanding of Public sector challenges and constraints.
* Understanding of modern software development frameworks.
* Understanding of testing approach and tooling for a cloud hosted infrastructure.
* Understanding of security architecture and Security Information Risk Assessments
This role has been deemed Outside IR35 by the client. Applicants must hold, or be happy to apply for, a valid Basic Disclosure Scotland. Please click the link to apply.
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