Senior Architect - AWS

Our purpose

Here at Datacom we connect people and technology in order to solve challenges, create opportunities and discover new possibilities for the communities we live in.

Our team

This is an excellent consulting opportunity for a Senior, not to be missed! You will be joining a fantastic team in our Public Cloud business who support each other working collaboratively across locations, locally and internationally. It is a chance to be a part of a business with both a strong people and customer focus.

About the Role

As a Senior Architect - AWS, you are primarily responsible for designing and delivering projects and will be called upon to consult, develop and deliver engagements relating to Amazon AWS (be they IaaS, PaaS, Cloud Native or other).

You will have the opportunity to combine your excellent technical knowledge, your desire to continue learning and more importantly your great customer engagement skills in this role.

What you’ll do

Some of your day-to-day duties will include consulting on and delivering technical solutions for customers utilising the AWS platform, determining operational needs for AWS environments, providing technical solutions with a focus on automation whilst ensuring strong relationships with our clients.

As a Senior Architect - AWS your key responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Consulting – the provision of technical knowledge in relation to solutions to resolve business issues
• Design – the provision of technical documentation outlining solutions to client needs
• Implementation/ migration – the delivery of solutions on the cloud platform.
• Evangelise Cloud as a driver for business change both internally and for our customers.
• Developing strong internal and external relationships, displaying technical excellence during all facets of each engagement.
  

Providing advanced technical support and advice to others on engagement/program during proposal writing, solution design and implementation.

Leading team members, third parties, and technological counterparts in client organisations in the integration of technological methodologies and components of projects.

Ensuring and being accountable for the technical integrity of the design, in accordance with the clients' requirements.

Developing and assisting in the development of rapid prototyping demonstrations.

Managing day-to-day technical program or segment activities, including relationships with the client, managing and reviewing assigned consulting staff.

Developing and delivering client and internal technical presentations.

Ensuring new or supported systems are designed to meet and integrate with organisation requirements for quality management, health and safety, legal stipulations, environmental policies and general duty of care.

Designing, developing and documenting complex infrastructure architectures for the specific domain that meet the evolving IT requirements of our customers.

Contributing to the Major Incident & Business Continuity plan for Technology Operations.

Providing architectural assurance for proposed changes to customers’ environment.

Ensuring that systems are in compliance with government legislation and standards in those countries in which Datacom operates.

What you’ll bring

This is an excellent senior role for a people person who is passionate about new technologies and producing excellent solutions for our customer needs. You’ll have at least 10 years IT experience with at least 5 years in project delivery and/or consultancy.

We are keen to hear about your proven track record in delivery of complex hybrid cloud and or public cloud delivery to delivery business change to customers. Your relationship building and communication skills will be a strength.

Highly Desirable Skills and Experience

One or more of the following: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional and/or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional

• Demonstrable technical leadership where you have advised other technical people within a project environment
• Demonstrable skills with customer engagement, governance and steering business outcomes
• Landing Zone deployments for medium to large clients
• Migration of services to and within AWS
• Intermediate to expert level experience with Infrastructure as Code (Cloudformation, Terraform, CDK, Pulumi)
• AWS Cost Management and Optimisation
• Strong knowledge of DevOps and CICD pipeline designing and implementation
• Strong AWS networking including - VPC, Subnets, TGW design and architecture
• Docker/Containers deployment and management
• Experience with AD integration and SSO
• Creation of quality high-level design and detailed design documentation

Culture and Benefits

Datacom is one of the largest suppliers of Information Technology professional services in New Zealand and Australia. As an ANZ company, we have managed to maintain a dynamic, agile, small business feel that is often diluted in larger organisations of our size. It's our people that give us our unique culture and energy that you can feel from the moment you meet with us.

At Datacom, you'll be recognised and valued for your contributions. We're growing year on year and can provide career opportunity in a collegial and agile environment that empowers people and promotes innovation. We care about our people and provide a range of perks such as health insurance, employee discounts, social events, remote working, flexi-hours, and professional development courses to name a few. We operate at the leading edge of technology to help our largest enterprise organisations explore possibilities and solve their biggest challenges, so you will never run out of interesting new challenges and opportunities.

If you would like to know more and this sounds like you. Please apply online today!