Application Architect

As the Application Architect you will be part of the Engineering team to be designing, defining, planning, and deploying the AWS cloud system.

You will:

Interface with multiple business units to help build our cloud and ensure consistent adoption of the technology

Be working in a highly Agile environment with a large team of cloud specialists

Be challenged and expected to act as a change engineer in a built environment using DevOps tools

Work across multiple, global teams and participate as a collaborative partner,

Be involved in the build of our new AWS cloud services that span IaaS and PaaS

Responsibilities:

Application Re-Engineering, Cloud Engineering, Architecture Strategy and Planning:

Develop and maintain AWS cloud architectures for all infrastructure technologies

Support the development of complex enterprise architectures for AWS computing architecture, architecture reviews, and selection efforts.

Use technical expertise and knowledge of architecture to benchmark with third party organizations to discipline overall Cloud strategy.

Participate and assist managers in setting the long term direction, roadmaps, and standards for technical architecture.

Continue to expand knowledge of industry trends, applying that knowledge by evaluating fit to the organisation

Utilize expert architecture knowledge, may play a role in negotiations with strategy vendors and parties

Ensure strategic vendor engagement to incorporate vendor’s roadmaps architecture

Proactively appraise and modify current architecture to identify deficiencies and research alternatives

Managing stakeholders and business units requirements:

Regularly interfaces and influences directly with senior Global Infrastructure leaders, other senior architects to understand and evaluate business requirements.

Provide strategic direction in the definition of the architecture and technology opportunities of the organisation especially in the area of Cloud computing, Cloud Hosting options, automation and virtualization solutions

Requirements:

Knowledge of Python, Ruby or Golang (or Similar)

Experienced with DevOps tools tools such as Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Salt, JSON, Terraform, Jenkins, etc.

Experienced with AWS cloud architecture, migration, deployment and set up

Experienced in other cloud technologies (e.g. Azure, Google Cloud, opensource or hybrids)

Experienced working in an Agile environment

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