My client is a global investment based in London. They are looking for a contract AWS Solutions Architect to join Global Cloud Services Team. The AWS Architect will support a number of project teams across the world to adopt Cloud services. They are looking for individuals who are passionate about AWS and have built and supported a rich variety workloads across a broad range of AWS services. It is an agile team who are responsible for building highly resilient, scalable, performant solutions in an automated and efficient manner.
Key skills:
· Experience of working as a Lead DevOps engineer or an AWS Solutions Architect
· Experience working with AWS in an engineering or architecture capacity
· Experience of designing AWS solutions using a combination of cloud native, 3rd party and on-premise technologies
· Experience of infrastructure build and configurations of a variety of AWS services including EC2, Lambda, S3, databases (e.g. RDS, DynamoDB) and VPC configurations
· Experience of designing cloud networks (VPC & subnets)
· Experience of facilitating solution design workshops
· Experience of developing Solutions architecture designs in tools such as MS Visio, Lucidchart, Draw.io etc.
· Experience of working in an Agile and DevOps environment
· Experience of building and implementing enterprise-wide architecture principles, standards, blueprints and patterns
· AWS Certifications – Solutions Architecture (desirable)
· Enterprise architecture qualifications (e.g. TOGAF, ZachMann) – desirable
Responsibilities:
· Solutions architecture design for AWS platform services
· Reviewing implementation of platform services to ensure alignment against design
· Leading the development of global AWS architecture patterns, blueprints and standards
· Working closely with security and compliance teams in the development of patterns and solutions
· Leading the architecture governance approvals for new AWS services
· Maintain a view of the AWS roadmap and review changes made by Amazon to understand the impact to the bank.
· Research and development of new cloud services to improve performance, security and efficiency of AWS hosted services
· Maintaining a Global AWS Service Catalogue which shows the approval status of AWS services
· Providing architectural approval for new projects onboarding to AWS
· Represent the AWS team in global architecture forums
Please apply now for immediate consideration to Ryan Camp for further details.
Keywords: AWS Solutions Architect, AWS Architect, Solutions Architect, AWS, Investment Bank.
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