Cloud Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Deliver hands-on, business-oriented strategic and technical consulting to clients for cloud infrastructure, automation solutions and solution architecture 
• You will join a Regional Sales team and focus on adding hands-on technical expertise, ensuring outcomes meet the highest technical and agile standards. 
• We expect our consultants to understand the client’s project aims and to offer professional and commercial insight to ensure client satisfaction as well as representing the commercial interests. 
• We always expect our consultants to be very self-sufficient when engaged in smaller assignments representing the company by themselves, always ensuring customer satisfaction through high quality work and outstanding client care. 
• You will act as the Cloud Architect, being the SME on Public Cloud and related technologies for the project delivery team.  Strong experience in a multi-disciplined team is critical as is your ability to clearly communicate complex technology solutions. 
• You will be responsible for defining tasks, scope and effort from user stories during user research sessions. 
• You will be responsible for the production of high level and low level design documents and other technical project related artefacts. 
• You will be involved in the qualification and bid process for new opportunities providing relevant technical input into the process. 

Requirements:

Technical: 
•    Minimum of 5 years’ experience in IT Infrastructure engineering including at least 2 years’ supporting cloud based infrastructure 
•    An in depth understanding of Public/Private/Hybrid Cloud solutions and experienced in integrating public cloud into traditional hosting/delivery models with a specific focus on AWS 
•    Extensive experience in conducting Cloud Readiness Assessments observing business and technical perspectives 
•    Experience in evaluating existing data centre and digital strategies 
•    Experience in conducting cloud service maps, TCO analysis, security considerations as part of a wider Cloud Adoption Framework 
•    Strong knowledge of the AWS Well Architected Framework(s)