Senior Cloud Architect - Centre of Excellence
Location: Hemel Hempstead
Package: up to £65,000 3% Flex Fund + 25 days + Bank holidays + 5% pension + Car Allowance
Bring your excellent Cloud Architect knowledge to us! In return, we will give you an amazing career with growth and learning opportunities. Come and work for one of the best kept secrets in I.T.
The Company
Sopra Steria, European leader in digital transformation, provides one of the most comprehensive portfolios of end to end service offerings in the market: Consulting, Systems Integration, Software Development and Business Process Services. Sopra Steria is trusted by leading private and public organisations to deliver successful transformation programmes that address their most complex and critical business challenges.
Sopra Steria helps our clients to solve today’s big challenges. We combine technical expertise and delivery capability with vision to accelerate change and reimagine the way that public services are designed and delivered.? We work with energy and integrity to create?intelligent, highly secure, joined-up solutions that make a difference to everyday lives.
The Day Job
Our 'Cloud Centre of Excellence’ is growing, we’re busy and need your knowledge and ambition to grow with us as we architect cloud solutions for our impressive client list in public and private sector.
You’ll Participate and contribute in delivery of cutting edge Cloud Reference Architecture solutions encompassing the latest generation Cloud Services and capabilities.
As we continue to expand our central knowledge base, we are looking for cloud architects with expert knowledge from either Azure, AWS or Google.
All within a fun, supportive and collaborative team
Key Responsibilities
- Implement and monitor security best practices on the AWS/ Azure & GCP
- Understand customer requirements(Functional & Non-Function) and translate these into advisory and/or managed service solutions, taking accountability for how the solution meets the customers’ business requirements Provide recommendations and suggestions on areas for improvement for cloud implementation.
- Host customer strategy meetings, including presenting solutions from a commercial and business perspective
- Act as primary liaison with external managed service provider to ensure KPI, OLA are managed and maintained in line with contractual obligations.
- Provide Azure/AWS & GCP SME consultancy to the architecture teams.
- Act as an escalation point for technical issues across scrum teams
- Build and maintain a strong relationship with the channel partners internal technical team across a number of technology’s
- Maintain high level of industry awareness through training and self-development; keep up-to-date with current and future technologies, products and strategies
- Clear ability to technically mentor, improve & inspire others as the team grows.
- Provide a clear vision around the cloud Build, Operate, Transform & Support process
- Proficient in the current trends of Cloud DevOps engineering tools.
Essential Skills
- In Depth Azure/ GCP &AWS implementation experience.
- Significant experience in infrastructure and networks design and implementation
- Significant GCP/Azure & AWS design and implementation experience
- Prior experience working with customers in a consulting capacity, leading / delivering professional service engagements
- Knowledge and exposure to Azure/AWS/GCP IaaS/PaaS/SaaS principles
- Knowledge and exposure to Cloud networking (Virtual networks, Subnets, VPNs, Network Security Groups)
- Experience in all aspects of cloud computing (e.g. infrastructure, storage, platforms and data, etc.)
- Exposure to Cloud Build & Template creation
Desirable Skills
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect
- Amazon Certified- AWS Architect
- Google Certified- GCP Architect
Reasons why you should apply to us
- Excellent training, you’ll join a company where self-betterment is actively encouraged
- An enviable client list - we work with some of the biggest names out there
- We’re big - really big. With that comes excellent career growth opportunities
- Supportive and collaborative team environment
- Sustainability is really important to us, in fact we are within the top 1% of companies worldwide tackling climate change and managing our emissions
The successful candidate must also be willing to undergo a SC Clearance
We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status.
If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application.