AWS Product Architect

Salary: £26,000 per year

About Oworx

SCC is a leading IT services provider across the UK and EMEA; spanning 45 years of heritage and helping thousands of commercial and public sector clients adopt and evolve their use of IT over this time. Today the business generates £2.3B revenue with over 1800 employees in the UK.

With the advent of public cloud services SCC were quick to realise the importance and disruptive impact this technology would bring; it was clear that our customers and many organisations across multiple sectors need the power of Public Cloud to realise their full potential. Many businesses either lack the capacity or capability to successfully architect, deploy, manage and secure their applications on cloud infrastructure or native cloud services, or would prefer to focus on their core business rather than invest in training and maintaining the internal talent required to benefit from automation and cloud tooling. To tackle these challenges SCC launched its “born in the cloud” brand Oworx to demonstrate its commitment to this area of the market

At Oworx, every day is a fresh challenge. We live and breathe cloud technology, nurturing the industry’s leading talent so we can offer the highest level of specialist expertise. Our culture is what binds us; everyone can contribute; everyone’s voice matters. At Oworx, enjoying what we do is a serious business.

The Role

Our Cloud Product Architecture team are made up the most technically minded individuals in our industry. This role is about building the future for Oworx within the AWS Platform. As one of the most senior AWS roles in Oworx, you will use you knowledge and experience to imagine and build innovative solutions and services for our customers.

The perfect candidate

Passion for cloud technologies with a willingness to learn

You work best in an environment of rapid change

Open Minded, Positive, Creative, and Collaborative approach to technical problem solving

Strong technical background in AWS. Infrastructure and/or application tier.

Start-up mentality

Technology minded

Technical achiever with strong team working skills

Cloud Evangelist

Duties and Responsibilities

Ownership of our design standards, policies, and processes to improve working efficiencies by use of Reference Architecture standards and templates

Own the AWS product and services roadmaps

Design of internal tooling to manage and automate cloud infrastructure

Run tooling design workshops with developers to move designs through development cycle and into production

Explorer, implement and test new technologies and solutions to bring to market

Build out our automation platform, enabling repeatable solution implementation for our customers

Contribute to the Oworx Cloud Adoption Framework processes, documentation, and tools

Maintain knowledge of new AWS based solutions

Input in the requirement gathering exercises for new tools and solutions

Design POCs making use of new technologies to highlight potential use cases to customers and the wider business

Work Internally with Solutions Architects and Product Managers on the blueprints and standard service offerings that underpin SCC client facing offerings; be the voice of the customer.

Provide mentorship to other architects and principal engineers

Required Skills

* AWS Solution Architect Professional Certification

* Deep understanding of AWS architecture including

* AWS EC2 IaaS

* AWS Kubernetes and other containerisation platforms

* AWS Lambda, Fargate and Application Integration Services

* AWS Security Hub and Security technologies

* AWS Machine Learning and other AI technologies

* Terraform or other infrastructure as code

* Data – Understand the principle of turning disparate data into business intelligence & value. Spanning data warehouse, data lakes and data bricks.

* Network Skills – Understanding of networking design concepts and security. Ensuring the connectivity and security of our platform

* Security Skills – Knowledge of information assurance compliance and information security basics

* Development Skills – Programming/development experience including use of repositories (e.g. GitHub) and deployment in multi-tier environment

* Infrastructure Skills – Familiar with a variety of operating systems and understanding of virtual machines

* Database Technology · Familiarity with management and maintenance of database/persistence technologies (Postgres, Redis, Elasticsearch)

* Experience with Cloud Native technologies (/ Rubrik / Jenkins etc)

* Deep understanding and practical application of automation

* Understanding of programme and project management methodologies

* Current holder of or ability to obtain security clearance

* 5+ years’ experience as a Technical Architect, Principal Architect, consultant, engineer or similar with focus on AWS, cloud compute, storage, and networking

* Experience with ARM templates and/or Terraform

Great to have

* One or more AWS Specialty certifications

* Good understanding of one or more programming languages

* Exposure to monitoring solutions

* Linux O/S experience (RHEL, CentOS and Ubuntu)

* AWS Sentinel

Communication

Ability to communicate with internal and customer stakeholders in professional manner

Personal Attitude

Logical approach to problem solving.

Able to identify when a problem may require escalation.

Excellent time management and priority determination skills.

Polite and constructive whist dealing with all customers.

Maintain a high standard of work and professionalism.

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