SC Technical Architect CGEMJP

Experis

Croydon, United Kingdom

2 days ago

Role details

Contract type

Permanent contract

Employment type

Full-time (> 32 hours)

Working hours

Regular working hours

Languages

English

Job location

Remote

Croydon, United Kingdom

Tech stack

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Proxy Servers

Confluence

JIRA

DevOps

DNS

Elasticsearch

Subnetting

Virtual Private Networks (VPN)

Lightweight Directory Access Protocols (LDAP)

Routing

Nginx

OpenVPN

OpenID

Red Hat Enterprise Linux - RHEL

Prometheus

SonarQube

Squid (Proxy Server)

TCP/IP

Grafana

Firewalls (Computer Science)

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Concourse

Kubernetes

Atlassian Tools

Hashicorp

Bitbucket

Fortinet

Route53

Functional Programming

Terraform

Dynatrace

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Job description

Solution Architects are required for one of the largest AWS based developer platforms in the UK, which supports 100+ teams and runs multiple critical workloads. The work our architect's take on is split into three key areas. Firstly, architects pick up new requirements from our teams, understand their needs, proposing options and getting the design governed and into delivery teams. Due to the scale of the platform, solutions often touch multiple areas and close working with other architects is essential to ensure 'tribal knowledge' is exploited. The second area is supporting teams with delivery and service. Inevitably delivery teams encounter problems in delivering against the roadmap or with incidents that need architect support to analyse and resolve. Lastly, architects work on longer term strategies or ad hoc pieces of work delegated by the Senior Management Team.

Requirements

Mandatory:

Strong understanding of core AWS services; VPCs, subnets, EC2, lambda, s3, route 53, VPC endpoints
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

Optional:

Our architects work across a wide range of technologies and as such are expected to be able to quickly learn and adapt to unfamiliar tools. Whilst not essential, it is desirable architects have expertise in the following;