Hybrid Working - Edinburgh - 1 day a week on site.

Public Sector

Lorien's Public Sector client is looking for an AWS Cloud Architect to join their expanding team on a new Migration Project.

This role is Hybrid with 1 day a week on site in Edinburgh.

This role is an initial 6month contract for potential for extension.

This role will fall Outside IR35.

What you will do

As an AWS Cloud Architect, you will be joining on a new Migration Project of our Key Applications over to AWS Cloud Technologies.

• Analyse and assess the existing on-premises IT.
• Define an alternative hosting strategy within amazon web services.
• Develop a roadmap for migration of core services to cloud.
• Define a migration strategy.
• Undertake structured analysis of functional issues and identify alternative architecture.
• Identify improvements, enhancements, risks, and issues.
• Look for opportunities to define reusable components and patterns.
• Communicate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Work directly with stakeholders to understand the problem and identify opportunities and risks associated with migrating from on-premises to Amazon Web Services.
• Collect and define technical requirements to enable cloud migration to support business process and integrations with Back Office on-premises systems,
• Identify and advise on technical architecture with supporting rationale/evidence.
• Ensure all architecture is secure by design and adheres to best practice.
• Work alongside SAAS application developers, engineers, designers, and testers to ensure optimal solution and implementations.
• Provide cloud migration subject matter expertise

The skills you will need:

• At least 3 years' experience in a Senior cloud architecture role with extensive experience defining secure and robust architecture.
• 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 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.

Technical Skills Needed

• 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.

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