Cloud Engineer - Outside IR35 - Hybrid (Mostly Remote) - Glasgow/Edinburgh

Market Rates

Duration - 2 months (Potential to extend)

Harvey Nash’s Public Sector Client are hiring a Cloud Engineer, you will be responsible for leading cloud migration across the SCI platform, ensuring that best practice approaches, processes and solutions are utilised to serve the operational and strategic needs of stakeholders. The postholder will ensure that systems are secure, efficient, and aligned with strategic goals, in particular enabling the Client to be an intelligence led organisation. You will play a crucial role in delivering the strategic objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Providing technical leadership and direction, establishing and maintaining application

architecture best practice and culture

• Lead on cloud migration of large production application to AWS
• Maintaining and developing comprehensive documentation of current and target cloud

architecture, utilised for easy understanding and future reference

• Stay current with emerging technologies and industry trends, evaluating new tools and

technologies and recommending their adoption based on their suitability to achieve

strategic objectives

• Managing risks and decisions in a transparent way

Skills & Experience Required

• Strong leadership skills with proven ability to deliver corporate programmes while engaging credibly with a range of stakeholders, business partners, and development teams to understand needs and guide implementation of long term IT strategies that support business goals.
• Reputable experience of working with multi-disciplinary teams and stakeholders to provide specialist cloud architecture expertise, analysis and direction.
• Extensive track record of delivering performant, scalable, resilient, secure and cost-effective Cloud solutions with a strong understanding of best practices in accordance with well architected frameworks pertaining to cloud technologies.
• Experienced in designing solutions and ervices with a high level of ingrained security and adherence to GDPR, Information Governance and cyber[1]security related regulations
• Proven experience in development and implementation of standards and best practices with the aim of producing best of bread technology solutions
• Experienced in cloud migration to AWS

Desirable Skills & Experience

• Experienced in Agile Methodologies

• Experience of working within a Health, Social Care or educational environment

• Experience of complex environments where the parameters of the job are not necessarily clearly defined

• Experience of communicating and influencing at senior level and of giving presentations at local/national levels

• Experienced in leading the planning, execution, and reporting of delivery progress at a senior level

• Experience maintaining large and complex cloud infrastructure that supports .NET based web applications

• An understanding of the wider combined health and social care system