Technical Architect AWS Java
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Job description
Are you a hands-on Technical Architect with strong Java coding skills and experience architecting and operating large scale systems on AWS?
You could be progressing your career as a Technical Architect at a growing tech company that provide a range of IoT and Data solutions for the Emergency Services.
As the Technical Architect you'll take ownership and drive the end-to-end architecture for the core insights platform, across infrastructure, data, security and application layers. You'll design and implement scalable, cost effective AWS architectures that support high-throughput, mission critical IoT and data workloads, governing platform standards, documentation and best practices across multiple engineering teams.
Your role will also encompass leading the definition and enforcement of infrastructure as code (IaC), observability and automation frameworks and integration of streaming and messaging solutions such as Kafka, SQS or SNS for data ingestion and event-driven processing. You'll collaborate with development, DevOps and data engineering on various initiatives and champion security and compliance within the platform to adhere to GDPR, ISO27001 and data governance frameworks.
Requirements
- You have strong experience of architecting and operating large scale systems on AWS, ideally within high-availability or regulated environments
- You have a strong knowledge of core AWS services (ECS / EKS, EC2, S3, RDS / Aurora, CloudWatch, IAM, VPC, Lambda, Terraform / CloudFormation)
- You have strong Java coding skills and a working knowledge of other languages (Python, Go, etc) for supporting services and automation
- You have a strong understanding of microservices architecture, event-driven design and integration patterns
- You have experience of designing and managing containerised environments
- You have experience with CI/CD pipeline design using GitHub Actions and a good working knowledge of Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform), observability and monitoring tools
- You have a good knowledge of security architecture, identity management and network segmentation in cloud environments
- You have a good understanding of data flows, APIs and asynchronous messaging (Kafka, SQS, SNS)
- You're collaborative and pragmatic with experience of managing or leading technical delivery teams using Agile / Scrum framework
Benefits & conditions
As a Technical Architect you'll receive a competitive package:
- Salary to £100k
- Bonus
- Pension
- Life Assurance
- Private Medical Care
- Remote working