Senior Solutions Architect - VR/30109

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Status: Temp/Contract
Location: Westhill
Rate: Available Upon Request

Looking for a dynamic and skilled Senior Solutions Architect to join the team. In this pivotal role, the successful candidate will be responsible for the design, development oversight, delivery, and support of cutting-edge cloud-native software solutions. As the technical authority, you will set the standard for cloud architecture, frameworks, and best practices.

     

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Providing cloud computing expertise and support for cloud-native solutions.
  • Implementing cloud security best practices.
  • Translating business needs into technical solutions.
  • Designing cloud architectures with a focus on security and cost.
  • Defining cloud strategy and roadmaps aligned with IT and Data Governance.
  • Producing cloud and software architecture designs from business requirements.
  • Ensuring best practices and HQ standards adherence.
  • Maintaining consistency across development squads through the technical framework.
  • Acting as a reference for cloud-native solutions and ensure support agreements.
  • Offering expert advice and training to the team.
  • Reviewing change requests for justification and technical soundness.
  • Promoting process, procedure, and IS improvements for cost-effectiveness and quality.
  • Recommending IS expenditure for cloud enhancements and projects.
  • Ensuring system integrity and compliance with standards.
  • Sharing best practices actively.
  • Participating in regular security, software component, and cost optimisation reviews.

     

Applicants to this role require:

  • This candidate holds a numerate honours degree and has 7-10 years of professional experience.
  • Excel in writing robust, reusable code and have extensive expertise with major cloud providers (Azure, AWS, GCP) and IaC technologies (Terraform, ARM Templates, CloudFormation, Ansible, Chef).
  • Are proficient with CI/CD tools (GitHub, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Bamboo, Bitbucket Pipelines, CircleCI, Travis, TeamCity) and scripting languages (Bash, PowerShell).
  • Experience with DVCS tools (Git, Mercurial) and container technologies (Kubernetes, OpenShift, Fargate, ECS).
  • Motivated to learn new programming languages and techniques, and have a solid understanding of distributed computing, data and application architectures, basic networking, security, and infrastructure.
  • Possess proven production experience with cloud platforms, particularly Microsoft Azure, and can integrate cloud services with on-premises data sources and clients.
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, they are effective technical presenters, organised, methodical, and capable of multitasking under tight deadlines.
  • Understanding of the upstream industry and its strategic drivers.
  • Experience with multi-tier, high availability, cloud and on-premise data engineering solutions.
  • Proficiency within the Microsoft Azure tech stack.
  • Experience in dynamic Agile-based teams.

      

TMM Recruitment INDIT

Email:it_team@tmmrecuitment.com

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