Senior Technical Architect
Contract
3 days on site per week in Milton Keynes
Outside IR35
Active SC
Essential Skills
* Senior Technical Architect experience and being confident in the development and use of suitable architectural standards (including but not limited to TOGAF).
* Deliver high-level and low-level technical designs for government department customers that meet business, technical, and cyber security requirements.
* Experience in relevant roles, including technologies in enterprise and virtual environments and of working within a secure government environments.
* Lead the automation of platforms, products, and services, enabling workflows to enhance efficiency.
* Experience creating technical and architectural documents such as options assessments, low and high-level technical designs.
* DevSecOps experience in automation and improvement in development and release processes (Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery).
* Experience of requirements management and the ownership of requirements.
* Substantial experience of server/operating system and network technologies, as a minimum Hybrid Cloud, Gateways, PKI, Email, VMware virtualisation platforms (including VCD, VSAN, and NSX), SASE architecture, Cisco, and Palo Alto.
* Design solutions for the deployment of the VM Ware VCF suite, including IaaS, PaaS & SaaS use cases.
* Design of infrastructure to support security audit and monitoring .
* Design and build of cross domain connectivity solutions, including gateways .
* Working knowledge of auditing and security products configuration.
* A comprehensive understanding of NCSC, GDS, CIS, Cyber Essentials, and NIST IT security principles, along with experience in UK government technology strategies and policies.
Desirable Skills
* Experience of Implementation of data labelling and classification solutions
* Worked in a matrix organisation structure.
* Infrastructure as a Code (IaC), Containerisation, and Microservices.
* Qualified in TOGAF, Zachman, MCSE, VCP, CNNP, or ITIL Expert Leader/Master.