Venesky-Brown's client, a public sector organisation in Edinburgh, is currently looking to recruit an AWS Cloud 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:

- 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 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.
- 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.
- 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 cloud migration subject matter expertise.

Essential Skills:

- 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 CICD 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.
- 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.

If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.