AWS Solution Architect

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Are you passionate about working with cutting-edge technology and self-motivated to find innovative solutions to complex challenges as part of a team who help keep the UK safe?

I have an exciting opportunity to join a growing Government Defence business unit as a DV Cleared AWS Solution Architect at one of their offices in London, Manchester or Leeds. You will be working with our customers to define and architect the functional blocks of AWS to support their Cloud adoption journey and beyond. Your core duties will include but not limited to the following:

Take on the technical lead role in migration enablement work.
Work with the community of development teams, to deliver migration services using, common code, standards and artefact format and proactively drive collaboration, particularly where there are service dependencies
Define and document AWS architecture for migration (baseline, target, roadmap, patterns, standards, reference architectures, etc), supporting a wide range of use cases
Run architectural reviews of the platform at appropriate intervals to take best advantage of vendor technologies
Pro-actively define, optimize, automate, publish and communicate deployment patterns for migration
Support engineering teams in optimizing the migration path
Escalation point for engineering teams in troubleshooting and incident management
Driving the adoption of automation in the platform, using common methods with other platforms
Documentation of deployed systems, scripts and other working practices to enable, re-use and support users across the world

You

To succeed within the role of an AWS Solution Architect, you'll have experience in a similar position, and many of the following skills:

Cloud Migration experience
Experience in Cloud Platform Architecture with AWS, defining cloud reference Architectures and Cloud Patterns in a large multi-account AWS estate
Plenty of experience in AWS and experience in solving complex business issues. Regarded as an AWS subject matter expert
Experience with various DevOps tools and CI/CD tools
Experience in AWS Security services and Network Services
Experience with working within an Agile framework
Good understanding of AWS security concepts and the goals of cyber security

Due to security nature and urgency for this role, we can only consider those with live and transferrable UK*C Enhanced DV security clearance used within the last 12 months. Unfortunately UKSV/MOD DV clearance cannot be considered for this role.

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