Day Rate: Market Rate

Job Description:

Harvey Nash's public sector client is recruiting for an AWS Solutions 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:
  • analyse and assess the existing on-premises IT estate.
  • 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 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:

• 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.

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.