AWS Cloud Platform Architect

• Location-Manchester, England,
• Company-MAG airports
• Job type-Hybrid full time
• Experience level– Mid-senior level

preferred qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years experience as technical subject matter expert, leading and owning the design of mid-sized project(s) £1m+
• VMware Certified Advanced Professional qualifications or equivalent demonstrable experience.
• Experience authoring high-level designs, low-level designs and configuration plans for the following technologies:
• Hyperconverged server infrastructure.
• VMWare VCF, vSAN.
• NSX-T and its gateway connectivity to data centre fabric and wide area networks (WAN).
• Demonstrable success in owning and delivering technical designs and implementations for a similarly sized organisation: multiple data centres, 30,000 indirect employees, a national footprint with global satellite sites, and hundreds of servers.

Desirable skills

• DevOps / Automation / Orchestration.
• Enterprise Service Bus.
• Public cloud; AWS EC-2, S3, ELB, EKS or equivalent tier 1 cloud provider products.
• Microsoft Modern Workplace; Microsoft 365, Enterprise Mobility & Security
• Enterprise Campus Networking (MPLS, VXLAN). 
• TOGAF or equivalent qualified

Role Responsibilities 

• Work collaboratively with other areas of IT Architecture, Infrastructure Operations and Project Management to ensure that all solutions are complete, operable, conform to business processes and meet the business needs with the agreed quality of service.
• Own high-level technical designs through expert knowledge, translate high-level business requirements into Technology Architectures that align to Strategic Architecture, leverage & simplify existing Enterprise Architecture Assets, and deliver reusable services & cost savings. 
• Communicate and promote the Technology Architecture, Strategy and governance at all times to a wide range of stakeholders and technical communities. 
• Ensure all solutions are fit for purpose, meet the needs of the business, and the agreed requirements and is both pragmatic and supportive of the strategic architecture direction. 
• Participate in the peer review and QA of the project architectural artefacts. 
• Participating in the definition of enterprise architecture and infrastructure technical standards, guidelines, and their establishment within the organization.
• Participate in the Technical Design Authority as and when appropriate.
• Provide clear, continuous, and consistent architecture leadership to projects and programmes; helping them deliver designs that conform to the defined infrastructure architecture elements and strategic vision.
• Monitor and maintain a forward-looking perspective on emerging technology developments and their relevance to the MAG IT strategic vision.
• Participate in the supplier selection process, evaluating the usefulness and cost of products and making recommendations.
• Support the operations teams on assurance of large or complex changes and major incidents relating to the platform.

About the role

You’ll play a vital role in architecting, implementing and managing our group hybrid cloud platforms, with a focus on our Airport VMware VCF clusters, and building secure critical national infrastructure.

With a number of significant growth programmes underway, MAG is undertaking a radical transformation of our Technology landscape, to ensure that our systems and infrastructure can best support the Organisation into the future; this includes a wholesale Infrastructure Transformation Programme across the Group.