Senior Cloud Architect!
Are you ready to take your career to the next level? We are looking for an experienced Cloud Architect to join our Clients growing team. As a leader within our Clients organisation, you will report directly to the CTO and play a key role in shaping their product offerings in vital areas such as security, availability, and performance.
What You’ll Do:
* Client Engagement: Collaborate with sales and implementation teams to understand client requirements, produce initial designs, and develop cost and scale models.
* Documentation Ownership: Ensure engineers have comprehensive documentation for implementing and upgrading customer systems.
* Technical Approvals: Act as the technical approver for significant changes passing through the Change Advisory Board (CAB).
* Best Practices: Produce, review, and enforce best practices for cloud and deployment tools.
* Continuous Improvement: Foster a culture of continuous improvement and act as an advocate for this approach across the organisation.
* Reference Architecture: Develop key reference architectures for system sizing, throughput, and processing capability.
* Security Assurance: Ensure adherence to best practices for system safety and security against threats.
* Technical Escalation: Serve as a technical escalation point for various teams to resolve incidents and problems as needed.
* Collaboration: Work closely with the Planixs organization to optimize tool efficiency.
What You Bring:
* Technical Expertise: Significant experience with diverse technologies, including programming languages, operating systems, storage, networking, virtualization, and automation.
* Linux Skills: Strong Linux system administration skills and experience with scripting and scheduling.
* Infrastructure as Code: Expertise in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, Terraform, Jenkins, Helm).
* Messaging Technologies: Knowledge of integration technologies like IBM MQ, RabbitMQ, or Apache Kafka.
* Cloud Platforms: Proficient in AWS, with certification preferred.
* Adaptability: Quick learning in dynamic environments and a continuous learner seeking improvement.
* Communication Skills: Strong communication skills with experience engaging external clients.
* Financial Services Experience: Preferred experience in software delivery within financial services.
Key Technologies:
* AWS, Linux (Redhat), Ansible, Terraform (ideally Terragrunt)
* Strong focus on automation and continuous improvement
* Understanding of Networking with AWS
What We Offer:
* Location: 2 days per week in their Manchester office.
* Compensation: Base salary of £80,000.