Senior Cloud Architect

Senior Cloud Architect - AWS - Salary up to £70,000 plus up to 28.9% employer pension contributions, hybrid home working, flexible hours, and great work life balance.

Location

This role can be based from any of the following locations: Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle or Sheffield. We work a hybrid model, with some time at home and some in the office.

DWP. Digital with Purpose.

DWP's Hybrid Cloud Services (HCS) team design, build and run all DWP hosting infrastructure including Public Cloud and On-Premise hosting, and help product and service owners to transition to the Cloud.

This Senior Cloud Architect role in the HCS architecture team will be perfect for you if you are a cloud infrastructure architect with significant experience of AWS.

DWP is the UK's largest government department. We help people into work and make payments worth over £195bn a year, to support millions of daily users.

Our DWP Digital teams are delivering a once-in-a-generation transformation of products and services that almost everyone in the UK will use, at key times in their lives. We're using fresh ideas and ground-breaking technologies to create innovative, scalable and user-centric digital solutions that are changing how government works.

The scale of what we do is outstanding, the architectural problems we have to solve are complex and unique, and our purpose is extraordinary. We'd love you to join us.

What you'll do:

• You'll provide the HCS team with skills in Public Cloud and on-premises computing services, with a focus on AWS and, ideally, Microsoft Azure
• Create technical solutions and designs that meet user needs
• You will Provide a consistent set of solution views - communicate and describe the construction of the solution to all stakeholder.
• Will support delivery teams, blending technical (public cloud development and architecture) and behavioural (leadership and communication) skill
• You'll lead, deliver and support infrastructure architecture design
• You will own the product architecture, collaborate on product roadmaps and represent product designs at governance forums
• Advocate and support delivery of solutions that reduce both architectural complexity and technical debt
• You'll be an active part of our brilliant DWP Architecture community - give advice and to other architects and digital experts, and access learning and support to help you be at your best.

Your Essential Skills:

• Architecture design and modelling techniques, patterns, tools and standards
• Public cloud technologies, cloud hosting, container, and networking design patterns, tools and best practices
• Experience with Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), Serverless, and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) deployment technologies, design patterns, tools and best practices
• Windows and Linux operating system technologies and deployment design patterns, tools, and best practices.
• Agile / DevOps delivery methodologies and best practices
• Experience with Cloud Container platforms (e.g. Kubernetes) and CI/CD pipelines would also be beneficial

Details. Wages. Perks.

You'll join us based in your choice of our brilliant digital hubs in Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle or Sheffield.

We also have all the tools and tech we need to enable our people to work flexibly, with hybrid hub and home working.

In return for your skills, we pay between £52,412- £70,000per annum.

You'll also get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions of 28.9% - depending on your starting salary that could mean we put over £18,000 in your pension pot each year.

Plus, a generous leave package starting at 26 days, rising over time to 31 days (based on your working pattern)

We also have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:

• Flexible working, flexi hours and flexi days
• Hybrid working: some time in a hub with the team, some time at home
• Family-friendly policies
• Time off volunteering and charitable giving
• Bring your authentic self to work with 'I Can Be Me in DWP'
• Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more
• Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket
• Sports and social activities
• Working in an award-winning environment and culture
• Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities.

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