Kainos

Platform Solution Architect - AWS

Kainos
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Remote, United Kingdom or Birmingham, United KingdomStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Lead multi-skilled teams across engineering, testing, consulting, product management, and security to design and deliver high-quality public-cloud solutions.
  • Work with customer architects and colleagues to design, automate, build, and support modern digital service platforms.
  • Own architecture decisions, effort estimation, non-functional requirements, production delivery outcomes, and technical delivery challenges.
  • Champion DevOps, cloud-native approaches, continuous delivery, automation, and responsible AI-augmented working practices.
  • Provide technical leadership across projects, advise on technology choices, and contribute to technology strategy and business cases.
  • Develop business within customer accounts and help identify, qualify, and win new opportunities.
  • Manage, coach, and develop senior staff, including supporting performance and career development.
  • Share technology perspectives internally and externally and evolve delivery, operating-model, platform, and developer-experience practices.

Requirements

  • Significant expertise using multiple public-cloud platforms, including AWS and Azure, across varied problem domains.
  • Demonstrated experience with whole-solution architecture, modern digital service platforms, production environments, and continuous delivery techniques.
  • Experience with container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes and with cloud-native tooling and approaches.
  • Proven team leadership, including managing, coaching, and developing senior team members.
  • Experience making decisions in fast-moving delivery environments and owning outcomes across technology delivery challenges.
  • Demonstrated experience applying AI to improve outcomes, ways of working, and complex business or delivery challenges.
  • Experience developing business cases for public-cloud adoption and proactively developing business within accounts.
  • Experience translating experimentation into sustainable improvements and adapting practices as technology capabilities evolve.
  • Desirable: a third-level or equivalent qualification in a related discipline.
  • Desirable: certification from a public-cloud provider such as AWS or Azure, and certification from a professional body such as CNCF.
  • Experience with automation tooling and proficiency in one of PowerShell, Bash, Python, Ruby, Go, or Groovy.
  • Excellent communication, prioritisation, time-management, and technical leadership skills.

Tech Stack

AWSAzureBashGoGroovyKubernetesPowerShellPythonRuby

Categories

Solutions Engineering
Kainos

About Kainos

1,001-5,000 employees

Kainos is a Belfast-headquartered, publicly listed IT services company that designs and delivers digital services and Workday solutions for public, healthcare and commercial clients. Its business includes agile software engineering, cloud and data platforms, systems integration, and a Workday implementation and testing practice (including the Smart automated testing product). Founded in 1986 and listed on the London Stock Exchange, Kainos operates across the UK, Europe and North America.

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