AWS Solution Architect
Remote work
6 months initially
£700-£750 per day
Inside IR35
Responsibilities will include:
- 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 HSBC hosted services
- 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
- Reviewing Global Business/Function project designs to ensure alignment against globally defined patterns, blueprints and standards
- Providing architectural approval for new projects onboarding to AWS
- Represent the GCS AWS team in global architecture forums
- Providing ad-hoc consultancy where required to projects using AWS infrastructure
The ideal candidate for this role will have the below experience and qualifications:
- Experience of working as a Lead DevOps engineer or an AWS Solutions Architect
- Demonstrable experience working with AWS in an engineering or architecture capacity
- Demonstrable experience of designing AWS solutions using a combination of cloud native, 3rd party and on-premise technologies
- Demonstrable experience of infrastructure build and configurations of a variety of AWS services including EC2, Lambda, S3, databases (e.g. RDS, DynamoDB) and VPC configurations
- Demonstrable experience of designing cloud networks (VPC & subnets)
- Demonstrable experience of facilitating solution design workshops
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to discuss technical detail with business stakeholders
Essential Skills:
- Min 4 years demonstrable experience working with AWS in an engineering or architecture capacity
- Min 2 years experience working as a Lead DevOps engineer or an AWS Solutions Architect
- 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
Desirable Skills:
- AWS Certifications - Solutions Architecture
- Enterprise architecture qualifications (e.g. TOGAF, ZachMann)
