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Cloud Technical Architect – SC Cleared. You will be required to use an FCSA Accredited Umbrella Company for this role. Architects are required for one of the largest AWS based developer platforms in the UK, which supports 100+ teams and runs multiple critical workloads.
Job Responsibility:
Architects pick up new requirements from our teams, understand their needs, proposing options and getting the design governed and into delivery teams
Close working with other architects is essential to ensure ‘tribal knowledge’ is exploited
Supporting teams with delivery and service
Supporting delivery teams with problems in delivering against the roadmap or with incidents that need architect support to analyse and resolve
Architects work on longer term strategies or ad hoc pieces of work delegated by the Senior Management Team
Requirements:
Must not have been outside of the UK for more than 6 Months in the last 5 years
Good understanding of networking – TCP/IP, DNS, routing, proxy patterns
Good understanding of containers and Kubernetes (does not require detailed Kubernetes knowledge, more the broad architecture)
Design documentation skills
Influencing, negotiating & pragmatism – getting designs through assurance processes
Problem solving and options analysis
Evidence based decision making
Excellent communication skills, ranging from getting a junior engineer’s input into a design to explaining a complex technical issue to a senior leader
Nice to have:
Elasticsearch Stack
Dynatrace
Prometheus & Grafana
AWS EKS & KOPS
Hashicorp Consul
Hashicorp Vault
VPNs – e.g. OpenVPN, Fortigate site to site VPNs
Atlassian tooling e.g. Bitbucket, confluence, JIRA, Crowd
AWS Workspaces
LDAP
Redhat SSO & OIDC
Firewalling technologies – e.g. AWS Network Firewall, Fortigate
Proxy Servers e.g. nginx, openresty, squid, fortiweb