FPSG are currently shortlisting profiles for an immediate, permanent vacancy for a Cloud Solutions Architect to join our Consultancy Partner Client who are expanding rapidly due to their success in the Cloud and Tech services market. Their approach to supporting all their engineers to become AWS certified helps maintain their reputation as experts in providing customers with solutions that enable them to deliver against strategic business objectives, through the design, build, migration and support for their cloud tech projects. With a diverse and widespread customer base, the Cloud Solutions Architect role can be based anywhere from within the UK and fully remote working the norm for yourself and colleagues.
About the Role:
We are keen to hear from Solutions Architects who can be responsible for the design, scoping, estimating and overseeing delivery of multiple professional services projects at any time. You will be familiar with remote working effectively with colleagues where you are required to multi-task, prioritise your workload to successfully deliver projects to the highest of standards whilst adhering to best practices, and remaining on budget and to the project timeframe. Typical colleague interaction will be with the leadership team, PM's and Engineers.
You will get exposure to customers who are in various sectors, so variety of projects is assured on a constant basis. These projects can include building automated data-driven solutions to build repeatable and recyclable environments in the cloud; building virtual rooms to stream applications directly to industry specific desktops around the world; virtualising a unique collection or collecting data that enables monitoring and action on global issues.
You will be responsible for end-to-end project delivery from the very first call with the customer to introduce, scope and estimate a project, to design and documentation to the final project sign-off. You will support a team of cloud engineers to deliver the project, providing guidance and expertise to ensure the project is delivered whilst growing the knowledge and skills of the team. You will take pride in ensuring no compromise is ever made in delivering the best possible practise for full customer satisfaction.
This level of post can typically suit a highly motivated individual who can drive positive change, get projects unblocked and be approachable to answer any queries that you may be posed from colleagues who will look up to you for advice and guidance. You will remain a key member of the Team through participation in the on-call escalation rota which provides additional support to our managed services engineers.
Some Key Responsibilities:
- Lead on customer scoping and design calls to gather requirements, build a project scope and time to deliver an estimate for the project
- Formulate a customer's problem into an architectural solution which will deliver value to the customer
Experience (Essential)
- Tangible experience designing and building solutions in AWS as well as experience in gathering project scope, requirements and designs either virtual or face-to-face with customers
- AWS Solution Architecture Certification at professional level
- Experience in quoting the time to delivery based on multiple skill sets within the team
- Experience in writing SOW's with precise and detailed information, including high-level architectural designs
- Tangible, solid experience with core AWS Services including Load Balancing, EC2, RDS, CloudFront, S3 and CloudWatch
- Experience with best practices of deployment mechanisms to deploy releases across multiple environments (AWS native tooling preferred, other technologies accepted) and previous experience in migrating customers from on-premise environments to the Cloud
- Demonstrable experience with modernisation legacy architectures such as containerisation or microservices and experience also in designing and building AWS serverless solutions such as API Gateway, Lambda, SQS, Eventbridge and Step Functions
Experience (Nice to have):
- AWS speciality certification
- Experience with machine learning services such as Rekognition, Sagemarker, etc
- Ability to write scripts to automate solutions (preferably in Python)
- Knowledge of typical on-premise environments such as hypervisor, storage and backup vendors
- Skills in Leadership
Package & Benefits:
An excellent starting salary, commensurate with your experience will be awarded, along with a generous package and reward model, which complements the working model of fully remote work and opportunities to be certified in relevant Cloud accreditations for personal advancement of skills and career. Details can be discussed further during the Online video interview, with a view to starting the right person on the right package ASAP.
Please apply immediately with an updated CV in Word format if possible.
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