Solution Enterprise Architect
3 Months
Location: Holborn
£650 pd
Inside IR35
Description:
The candidate should have the following qualities and experience:
Personal traits: The traits we are looking for are:
* Passion for technology and experience in Cloud
* Showing initiative
* Self-learning
* Good communicator (as an individual and as part of a team)
* Being a team player, i.e. take ownership of contributing to the overall team capability and knowledge
Must have:
* Technologies - The must have requirements centre around the base technology platforms that we use to build all our infrastructure. Experience in:
* AWS and Environment Design and Management - Cloud certification (AWS - associate architect, professional architect or one of the specialist certifications)
* Review / identify performance improvements to IPT infrastructure environments
* Identify and review any potential performance improvements/degradations in the forecasted use for each Release environment
* Identify non-standard environment (namespace) and what performance improvements can be realised
* Identify what new products and services on the AWS platform would be suitable to improve performance of the environments
* Environment Management process
* Identify any new environment processes that could lead to performance enhancements
* Cloud Formation or Terraform
* Nginx
* Linux administration
* Packer
* Collaboration tools (Git, Jira, Confluence, etc)
* Kubernetes
* Docker
* Hashicorp tools (Packer, Consul, Vault, etc)
* Applications:
* Working with the development teams identify and propose changes to application design to reduce costs, improve application performance and potentially migrate to another Cloud Provider
* Identify and propose additional application monitoring metrics to track application performance
Skills:
* Working within an agile context with the use of CI (continuous improvement)
* Articulate a logical design, and understand how this translates to physical infrastructure
* Experience with defining and working with the constraint of NFRs such as cost, scalability, availability
* The must have skills will determine how well they will be able to integrate into our way of working and;
* The principals we use when making strategic and long-term decisions
Nice to have:
* Kubernetes
* Docker
* Hashicorp tools (Packer, Consul, Vault, etc)
* Other networking technologies
* Skills:
* Microsoft cloud solutions (active directory / Azure)
* The ability to advise on performance changes proposed that results in an improvement in improved speed / cost
Reporting:
* As required through Agile team ceremonies
* Two weekly update as part of the Sprint Board reporting on Slack to Leslie Wastie (Capgemini EM)
* Monthly to Capgemini team Lead for inclusion in Scorecard report
If you feel like you match the requirments, then please submit your CV and we will be in touch!
