Cloud Architect
Department:
Development
Location:
Warrington
Reporting to:
Lead Architect
Background:
System C developers impact millions of people every day through our range of healthcare software systems. Used extensively throughout the NHS, you might be wondering why you have never heard of us – we pay far more attention to our software delivering value than shouting about our latest contracts.
We are looking for a talented and experienced Cloud architect to join our Architecture team.
The person we are looking for will need to have 2+ years of commercial experience with Azure, who can demonstrate a real passion for cloud architecture, with a flexible and creative attitude, good communication skills and a strong work ethic.
Working within an existing team that is focused on creating a scalable and resilient cloud hosting model, taking ideas from proof of concept to productization. The individual will have a workload covering (but not limited to):
- Advising teams on improvements to cloud hosted products
- Creating solutions that fit well within the existing Azure estate and methodology
- Clean hand-over of well-understood solutions to the SRE team
- Helping product teams understand best-practise for cloud-hosted systems
- Performance analysis and tuning
- Security reviews and risk mitigation
- Building services that are resilient and scalable
- Keeping up to date with emerging technologies and advising how they can be used to improve the existing architecture
Personal Attributes:
- Able to work well as an individual and as part of a team
- Take part in architectural discussions with technical / non-technical team members
- Able to self-manage and self-motivate
- An eye for detail, well-organised and a desire to adhere to best practices
- Strong inter-personal and communication skills
- Able to work under pressure and to tight deadlines
- Have a desire to keep up with the latest tools and techniques
- Passion about your craft and love of sharing knowledge
- An inquisitive mind and a dogged determination to solve complex problems
Knowledge, Skills and Experience:
Must Have:
- Understanding of cloud architecture concepts and best practise
- Experience with building resilient and fault tolerant solutions
- Proven experience of migrating existing on-prem apps to a cloud hosted model
- Excellent C# skills
- A thorough understanding of Azure components. Key areas:
- Service Bus topics and subscriptions
- Event Hub
- Azure Functions
- Cosmos DB
- Azure SQL
- Familiarity with patterns used to create well architected solutions
- An understanding of securing data exchange over wide area networks
- A proven track record of delivering successful projects
Advantageous:
- Containerisation in the Azure platform
- Health Care and Clinical systems
- Experience working within an Agile development environment
- Developed high availability multi-user system
- Microsoft certification(s) in Azure
Applications:
Please apply in writing, sending a covering letter & CV to hrrecruitment@systemc.com