AWS Solutions Architect

AWS Solutions Architect

Posted 2 weeks ago by Job Board - LinkedIn on Linkedin

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

  • 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.

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 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.

Desirable Skills

  • 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.

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