AWS Cloud Architect| 6 Month Contract (with extensions) | (Outside IR35) | Hybrid (Edinburgh) | Starting ASAP

Scotland based candidates please

Day Rate: 650

Job Description:

Harvey Nash's public sector client is recruiting for an AWS Cloud Architect. They are embarking on a new Cloud IT project migrating our key applications over to AWS Cloud Technologies.

Main Duties:

You will:

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.
- 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.
Ensure all architecture is secure by design and adheres to best practice.
Work alongside in house application developers, engineers, designers and testers to ensure optimal solution and implementations.
Provide cloud migration subject matter expertise.

This role is focused on the strategic cloud migration work within the programme:

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.

Essential Skills & Experience:

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 integrating and managing Active Directory services in conjunction with AWS WorkSpaces
Experience defining CI\CD 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.

Technologies

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

This role has been deemed Outside IR35 by the client. Applicants must hold, or be happy to apply for, a valid Basic Disclosure Scotland. Please click the link to apply.

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