AWS Solutions Architect - Glasgow

Job Title: AWS Solutions Architect

Location: Glasgow

Salary: D.O.E

The Opportunity

A Cloud Architect for our client will have the opportunity to participate in customer projects, such as new infrastructure builds and migrations, and big data. Day-to-day hands-on work can be from implementing CM infrastructure, to taking a step back and giving workshops and design recommendations to a technical team. Furthermore, you will become a trusted advisor for high-profile enterprises and jointly manage the customer relationship and roadmap with the sales team.

The Role Specifics

The Cloud Architect will:

• Lead the development of cloud solutions for our clients, within budget and on time;
• Design, implement and maintain cloud native services;
• Identify, evaluate, recommend and develop new technologies;
• Manage stakeholders from a wide range of backgrounds;
• Ensure adherence to relevant policies and standards;
• Providing pre-sales support and development of proposals;
• Ensure solutions can be delivered and implemented by providing ongoing support, quality assurance and ownership of solutions throughout project lifecycle.

Company Benefits:

We offer a Competitive Salary dependant on your skills and experience;

• 22 days annual leave p/a (plus bank holidays);
• Auto-enrolment into Company Pension Scheme;
• Business related expenses covered;
• Potential Share Option Scheme;
• Comprehensive private medical insurance scheme which includes medical, dental, optical and EAP services to ensure your well-being;
• Professional Development incl. access to ongoing professional development opportunities, including training programs to enhance your skills and knowledge;
• Annual Employee Recognition Scheme.

Who we are looking for:

• You will be a self-starter with the ability to use your own initiative to work independently and proactively manage your own workload and time;
• You will have public cloud platform expert knowledge, especially Amazon Web Services (AWS). GCP and/or Azure are a plus;
• You will have a natural willingness to be flexible, adapt to changing needs and take on new tasks as required;
• You will be confident in speaking with our customers and have a professional and clear communication manner (written and verbal);
• You will engage with our sector and be keen to make a valuable contribution to our organisation;
• Have an understanding of on-premises technologies (e.g. VMware, OpenStack, or Hyper-V);
• You should have a solid engineering/technical background/hands-on experience with conceptualizing, strategizing, and architecting cloud solutions;
• A background in Linux/Windows system administrator or backend development;
• You will have knowledge of Configuration management systems (e.g. Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or similar), Container technologies (e.g. Kubernetes, Mesosphere, Docker Swarm) and at least 1 programming language;
• Minimum AWS Solutions Architect Associate certification (essential).