Job Description

Agile Working Options
Flexible / Variable Hours, Other Agile Working Arrangements / Open to Discussion Can you think strategically and \xe2\x80\x98join the dots\xe2\x80\x99 across multiple activities to build the bigger picture? Do you enjoy working at pace, identifying new and improved ways of doing things and collaborating with a wide range of stakeholders? Are you passionate to make a difference to how our client operates? If so, we would love to hear from you. We are looking for a Solutions Architect to join our client\xe2\x80\x99s diverse and inclusive team, as a Solutions Architect you will join one of their small, fast-paced, agile delivery teams; using agile methodology and DevOps techniques to design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure supporting workloads for their customers in the UK Government and Defence sector. JOB SPECIFICATION Engineering at our client\xe2\x80\x99s company consists of a wide range of responsibilities, the list below gives a flavour of some of the tasks you may be asked to undertake.

• Draft technical Statements of requirements for cloud native applications and platform solutions.
• Define and access technical architectures and solutions.
• Define technical and business requirements.
• Produce high- and low-level technical designs.
• Produce high level operating model designs.
• Define security controls and architecture commensurate with cloud and application security best practice.
• Define and select appropriate DevOps pipeline, process and tools.
• Define and select appropriate high level of coding languages, testing strategies and tools to be used.
• Define the tools and practices to be used to monitor and support cloud applications.
• Define service management practices/process.
• Architect and support delivery of on-premise virtualization (VMware ESX, vCenter) solutions.
• Architect and support delivery of IaaS, PaaS and SaaS public cloud (AWS & Azure) solutions.
• Develop and maintain all the necessary technical architecture documentation required to support security and architectural accreditation.

CANDIDATE SPECIFICATION Our clients Solutions Architects enjoy working on a variety of interesting and challenging projects, so we they want their team to have a proactive and can-do attitude to their work. They pride on keeping up with emerging technologies and delivery best-practice so it is important that you enjoy learning and continuous improvement. You will ideally have exposure to;

• Contemporary software engineering including selection and application of appropriate technology and patterns.
• Confidence working in a team developing full-stack solutions.
• Defining, installing, or supporting networking solutions.
• DevOps and the techniques which enable it - including virtualisation, containerisation, CI/CD and IaC
• Working with high-level stakeholders - both internally and externally - and flexibility to travel to customer sites in the South West and London
• Working in agile environments using methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban.

Benefits The Solutions Architect role is an excellent opportunity, and our client reward their staff well with a competitive salary and impressive benefits package which includes:

• Flexitime: Plan your day to suit you with working from home available
• Learning: Budget for conferences, training courses and other materials
• Social: Fantastic culture with monthly social events
• Future You: Matched pension and health care package

Our client understands the importance of getting to know your colleagues. Whole company meetings are held every quarter, and a training/work brief weekend is held once a year, amongst many other social events. DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION Our client is an equal opportunities employer. They embrace diversity and are committed to a working environment where no one will be treated less favourably on the grounds of their sex, race, disability, sexual orientation religion, belief, or age. Job Types: Full-time, Permanent Salary: \xc2\xa370,000.00-\xc2\xa390,000.00 per year Benefits:

• Childcare
• Flexitime
• Health & wellbeing programme
• Life insurance
• Sick pay

Schedule:

• Flexitime
• Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

• Bonus scheme
• Performance bonus
• Yearly bonus

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Edinburgh