Essential Skills:

We are looking for a combination of high level architecture skills built upon a foundation of deep engineering experience.

• Cloud Adoption and Modernisation across the three primary hyperscalers (AWS, Azure & GCP):
• Multi-cloud deployments and how to enable customer success
• CCoE & Cloud Operating Models
• General experience & leadership in infrastructure projects and migrations
• Application architecture & performance tuning - load balancing, auto-scaling, web servers & database servers
• Automation & Infrastructure as Code management using Terraform or similar tools such as Puppet, Chef, Ansible….
• CI/CD toolchains such as Azure Devops, Jenkins, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket and others
• Automated Infrastructure testing
• Modern IT Operations Frameworks
• Experience and competent with coding and scripting: PowerShell and Python
• Cloud certified architect to professional level
• Experience with API design and service integration
• Demonstrable experience with private cloud deployments
• Configuration, migration/modernisation and deployment experience the following:
  • IaaS & PaaS Technologies
  • Container platforms and orchestration tools such as docker, Kubernetes
  • Cloud Native & Serverless
  • Web front ends on traditional and serverless deployments
  • High Availability and Disaster recovery implementations
  • Multi-tiered applications.
  • Security architectures for infrastructure, cloud and applications
  • Understanding of application architectures and development methodologies
  • Architectural certification (e.g. TOGAF)
  • Governance and proactive attitude to managing issues and risks

Experience:

• At least 10 years experience of Cloud delivery and design
• Deep involvement in the design and successful implementation of Cloud deployments for Public, Private or Hybrid environments
• Demonstrable experience of requirements gathering through to analysis, design, plan and build

Practical experience of delivering IaC and Automation as part of cloud migrations