AWS Solutions Architect
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Negotiable
Outside
Onsite
Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Venesky-Brown s client, a public sector organisation in Edinburgh, is currently looking to recruit an AWS Solutions Architect for an initial 6 month contract with option to extend on a rate of c. 650- 700/day (Outside IR35). This role will be hybrid-based working 1 day per week in the office.
Responsibilities
Responsibilities
- 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 and 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-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 application architecture with supporting rationale/ evidence.
- Ensure all architecture is secure by design and adheres to best practice.
- Work alongside application developers, engineers, designers and testers to ensure optimal solution and implementations.
- Provide subject matter expertise.
- 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 and documenting the existing functional landscape for both commercial off the shelf products and in-house developed Java applications hosted on-premise.
- Identify functional improvements in order to prepare the applications to be migrated to Amazon Web Services.
- Experience analysing and identifying improvements to the application data architecture.
- Identify alternative application architecture for existing applications within Amazon Web Services.
- Identify and define AWS migration strategies for each application.
- Understanding of SOAP and REST APIs, API Gateways & API Management.
- In-dept experience identifying and defining security controls within AWS.
- Identify roles, operating model and service management policy and procedures.
- Amazon Web Services architecture.
- Understanding of Java application development and hosting strategies within Amazon Web Services.
- Understanding of modern software development frameworks.
- Hosting commercial off the shelf and in-house developed (Java) applications in AWS.
- Application containerisation experience.
- Understanding of modern operating systems, virtualisation technologies, data storage and management systems.
- Proficiency in Terraform to deliver infrastructure as code.
- Understand CICD processes using AWS developer tools such as CodeBuild, CodeDeploy and CodePipeline.
- 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.
- Understanding of security architecture and security controls within Amazon Web Services.