Posit Specialist

Security clearance requirements: BPSS level

Storm  an award-winning Edinburgh-based digital transformation consultancy that helps organisations accelerate their use of digital, data and AI. We believe in tailored solutions, assembling expert teams to address each client's unique needs. Our services span strategy, design, technology and data & AI, ensuring seamless end-to-end delivery of platforms, products and services with real-world impact.

Role Overview

Storm  supporting a Public Body as it transitions from SAS to a modern, open-source analytical platform, in line with Scottish Government strategy and the need for secure, reproducible and scalable statistical processing. Following a detailed technical options appraisal, the project is progressing with an Alpha phase with Posit as the preferred foundation for future analytical services, while accounting for the sensitivity, scale and governance requirements of client data.

This role sits within a multiphase project and will lead the shaping of a solution by working across technical, analytical and assurance stakeholders to define a priority use case, test key assumptions and design the architecture needed to support informed decision making and progression into subsequent delivery phases.

This initial Alpha phase involves the solution design and implementation of a candidate use case. The architect must understand how to translate the requirements for performance, scalability, and security into a cohesive Azure and Posit technology stack. This initial Alpha phase is expected to run for approximately 6 months but we expect a larger Beta phase will follow with options to extend.

Key Responsibilities

Lead the Solution Architecture Design, particularly around Posit deployment patterns, extensibility and future scalability.

• Lead an enterprise alignment and solution design activity, engaging with technical and analytical teams to understand users, data, workloads and publishing requirements.
• Define an appropriately scaled, low-risk Alpha architecture by evaluating use cases, validating assumptions (data volumes, security, private cloud constraints) and agreeing a priority use case for solution design and implementation.
• Produce and iterate a minimal viable Solution Architecture Design, aligned to an ARB standards, covering security, networking, resilience and future extensibility.

Skills

• Posit Product Knowledge
• Hybrid cloud strategy
• High Performance storage
• Network security design
• Kubernetes Architecture
• Identity & Access Management

Deployment

• IaC

Hands-on ability to install and license the Posit software.

This involves:

• Following the Posit administration guides to install Workbench and Launcher on the designated Linux VMs.
• Applying license keys.
• Performing the initial integration between Workbench and Launcher
• Kubernetes Operations (Dev Ops)
• Scripting and Automation
• Proficiency in a scripting language (e.g., Bash, Power Shell) to automate installation steps, configuration changes, and validation checks.

Management and configuration

• Posit Administration
• Configuration files
• User & Group Management
• Environment and Package Management
• Posit Package Manager:
  Learning to use this product to serve approved versions of CRAN and PyPI packages from a local source, enabling reproducibility and security.
• Environment Management:
  Understanding how to manage R and Python environments, including package installation and dependencies for users