DevOps AWS Architect

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We’ve been awarded: Innovation Partner of the Year Winner 2023 Oracle EMEA Partner Awards, Global Microsoft Modernising Applications Partner of the Year Award 2023, AWS Collaboration Partner of the Year - EMEA 2023 and Best Workplaces for Women by Great Place To Work in UK and Ireland 2023.

As a consultancy and service provider, Version 1 is a digital-first environment and we do things differently. We’re focused on our core values; using these we’ve seen significant growth across our practices and our Digital, Data and Cloud team is preparing for the next phase of expansion. This creates new opportunities for driven and skilled individuals to join one of the fastest-growing consultancies globally

Summary

We are seeking an experienced AWS Solutions Architect to design and implement a robust, scalable, and high-performance cloud architecture for our financial reporting application. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in AWS services, data processing, and containerized applications and reporting solutions.

Years of experience: 10+ years

Key Responsibilities

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  Design and implement scalable, secure, and high-performance AWS cloud infrastructure complying with Natwest standards.
• Review AWS Infrastructure components design & usage and implement enhancements.
• Design and implement an ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) engine using AWS EMR (Elastic MapReduce) for efficient data processing.
• Design, review and Implement reporting solutions integrating Tableau with AWS services for seamless data visualization.
• Design and implement containerized UI applications (Front end & back end) with microservices Architecture on Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service).
• Experience in Infrastructure as code, scripting (Python/Bash), Helm charts, Docker, Kubernetes
• Experience is reviewing and implementing cloud security best practices.
• Integrate and optimize supporting AWS services to create a cohesive, performant application ecosystem.
• Ensure the overall architecture meets performance, scalability, and security requirements.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to the development team throughout the project lifecycle.
• Continuously evaluate and recommend improvements to the architecture to enhance performance and reduce costs.
• Automate deployment processes and workflows using tools like Terraform, Ansible, and Jenkins.
• Monitor and optimize system performance, ensuring high availability and reliability.
• Develop and enforce best practices for security, compliance, and cost management in cloud environments.
• Collaborate with development and operations teams to streamline CI/CD pipelines , Devops tools and practices to improve software delivery.
• Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure-related issues, providing technical support and guidance.

Essential criteria:

• 10-15 years of experience

Experienced AWS architect who can bring best practices and expertise to design AWS infrastructure for the project.

• Experience with AWS services like S3, Data Lakes, Glue, Athena, Airflow (MWAA), EMR, IAM, Data Pipelines, Lambda, QuickSight, Redshift, Fargate.
• Deep understanding of AWS services, especially EMR, EKS and data-related services (e.g., S3, RDS Postgres, etc)
• Experience with big data processing and ETL workflows
• Familiarity with Tableau or similar BI tools and their integration with cloud platforms

Strong knowledge of containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)

• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., CloudFormation, Terraform)
• Understanding of security best practices in cloud environments
• Should be able to support with defining CI/CD patterns for application code for all the various components on EMRs, EKS complying to Natwest standards.

Additional Skills

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong attention to detail and outstanding analytical and Problem-solving skills.
• Banking domain experience will be an added advantage.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional
• Experience with financial reporting systems or similar data-intensive applications
• Knowledge of Angular and Node.js for frontend and backend development