Principal Cloud Solutions Architect - R10210874

Principal Cloud Solutions Architect - R

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UK CITIZENSHIP

REQUIRED:

Yes
RELOCATION ASSISTANCE:
No
CLEARANCE TYPE:
Highest UK government clearance
TRAVEL:
Yes, 10% of the time
Salary: £83,000 - £125,000

Define Possible at Northrop Grumman UK. Our mission is to solve complex challenges by shaping technology and solutions of tomorrow.

As a critical part of Secure Cloud Solutions team, we support customers in refactoring, re-platforming and re-hosting mission-critical systems into AWS. You will deliver high-level agile architecture expertise, expand skillset, document solutions, coach, mentor engineers, run demonstrations, training sessions and document internal Knowledge Base articles.

• Work with senior engineers and stakeholders to elicit functional and non-functional requirements, guide junior engineers through documentation, estimation and prioritisation.
• Produce system design documents, high and low level designs and operational concept descriptions.
• Implement large scale or complex technical solutions, ensuring appropriate documentation and testing.
• Coach and mentor junior engineers, contribute to Knowledge Base and Centres of Excellence.
• Set technical direction and standards for quality assurance across your project.
• Ensure task completion on schedule and budget, prioritise deliverables against financial limits.
• Produce high quality user documentation, concept of operations, security operating procedures, support guides and user guides.
• Lead investigation of complex issues, problems and defects, reporting to Tasking Manager.

• Experience with in IT systems design, deployment and administration; recent roles in technical or team leadership positions.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional level (additional relevant certifications desirable).
• Design, deploy and administer cloud-based solutions across AWS.
• Extensive experience administering Linux or Windows operating systems in large corporate environments.
• Extensive experience designing, deploying and troubleshooting IPv4 networking.
• Experience Infrastructure as Code using AWS CDK, Cloud Formation or Terraform.
• Experience administering virtualised or containerised systems in Docker/Kubernetes.
• Experience working in complex or high security environments.

• Implementation of CI/CD pipelines for Dev Ops deliveries.
• Dev Ops practices such as Git branching and release schedules.
• Secure network architecture design and configuration of routers and firewalls.
• Administration of Linux or Windows servers in large corporate environments.
• Use of configuration management services such as Ansible or Puppet.
• Agile delivery tools such as Jira and Confluence;
  Scrum or SAFE.
• ITIL-based Service Management delivery knowledge.

• Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
• Employment type: Full-time
• Job function: Engineering and Information Technology
• Industries: Defense and Space Manufacturing

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