Location
Chester, Cheshire | United Kingdom
Job description
must Haves
· Current valid AWS ‘Solutions
Architect’
· ‘SysOps Administrator’ or ‘Developer’
Associate certification (or equivalent skills/experience) Demonstrable AWS
cloud solution design
· build and migration skills Strong
understanding of cloud services and infrastructure components (IAAS/PAAS) Solid
technical troubleshooting skills Experience of CloudFormation for AWS cloud
automation and orchestration Experience producing high and low-level technical
designs Excellent documentation skills across technical and operational process
areas Strong time and task management with the ability to manage multiple
simultaneous projects Strong interpersonal skills with experience in a
customer-facing role Minimum of 4 years experience working with AWS
We
are looking for a person who is excellent at engaging in technical discussions
and can lead by example, spreading their knowledge and working as a part of our
team of architects to design, build and deliver solutions on AWS.
Our
client has established ourselves as a sociable and approachable company whether
this is internally or at external / customer events so the ideal candidate
should be both technically confident and sociably comfortable in front of
people.
ROLE
KEY OBJECTIVES
· Participate
in technical pre-sales activities (supporting the commercial teams)
· Capture
customer requirements and present technical solution options
· Produce
detailed technical solution designs
· Implement,
test and handover cloud solutions
· Migrate
workloads into the cloud
· Investigate
and implement automation, time-saving and efficiency tools and approaches where
possible
ESSENTIAL
SKILLS OF AWS SOLUTION ARCHITECT
· Current
valid AWS ‘Solutions Architect’, ‘SysOps Administrator’ or ‘Developer’
Associate certification
o (or
equivalent skills/experience)
· Demonstrable
AWS cloud solution design, build and migration skills
· Strong
understanding of cloud services and infrastructure components (IAAS/PAAS)
· Solid
technical troubleshooting skills
· Experience
of CloudFormation for AWS cloud automation and orchestration
· Experience
producing high and low-level technical designs
· Excellent
documentation skills across technical and operational process areas
· Strong
time and task management with the ability to manage multiple simultaneous
projects
· Strong
interpersonal skills with experience in a customer-facing role
DESIRABLE
SKILLS
· Current
valid AWS ‘Solutions Architect’ or ‘DevOps’ Professional certification or
speciality certifications
· Experience
of developing reference architectures, standards, and framework
· Experience
of other cloud automation and orchestration tools/services e.g. Terraform,
Ansible, Chef, Puppet)
· Knowledge
and experience of CI/CD pipeline tools e.g. CodeCommit/Build/Deploy/Pipeline,
Jenkins, GitLab CI
· Knowledge
and experience with scripting e.g. Powershell, ASP.NET, NodeJS.
· Skills
around cloud security & DevSecOps
· Exposure
to other cloud environments such as Azure, Google Cloud Platform or private
clouds
· Experience
working within an IT Services or Managed Services provider
· Backup
and disaster recovery experience to and/or within the cloud
Job tags
Salary
£10.42 per hour
