Jobs

Soft-Practice works with highly classified organisations, providing expert technical consultancy to complex and challenging projects. We are currently looking for Cloud Solution Architect / Consultants who can bring a mix of consultancy skills and practical hands-on architecture skills to guide and support our clients.

These roles will work as part of our Cloud Architecture service, providing guidance and help, shaping client strategy, solving complex architectural challenges, supporting teams in cloud and agile ways of working, and building client skills.

Cloud Solution Architect

Role Requirements:

• Experience of building real cloud projects
• AWS Certification (AWS SA Associate minimum, Professional preferred along with Certified Developer or a specialism e.g. Big Data or AI/ML)
• Programming experience in JavaScript, Python and ideally Java + other
• AWS Infrastructure as Code skills and CI/CD experience
• Architecture experience, including high complexity approaches
• Technical Business Change skills
• Good technical communication skills
• A good mix of Cloud experience covering most of the following:
  • IaaS skills: EC2, autoscaling, ELBs, patterns (bastion or no?)
  • PaaS skills: Docker, OpenShift, EKS, Fargate, ECS
  • Serverless skills: API Gateway, Lambda, DynamoDB, R53
  • web skills: HTML, CSS, JS, static site generation
  • big data skills: HDFS, MapReduce, Accumulo
  • ML/AI skills: corpus management, training, inference

Role Description:

• This role will require UK DV security clearance
• Work will involve engaging with client teams who are building complex systems, providing cloud transformation consultancy covering the full range of 6Rs
• Work will be partially remote and partially onsite at client sites
• You will work as part of a mixed supplier team to a variety of client development teams
• Outside IR35

If you’re interested, please apply now.