The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) is looking for a Solutions Architect who will lead the development of architectures for complex systems, ensuring consistency with the standards set by the Cloud Operations Working Group, ensuring existing and planned solution components remain compatible with the architectural roadmap.
Having previously worked with Amazon Web Services you will lead the advocation, evaluation, design, build and continual improvement of the RSC technical architecture and infrastructure. Your work will enable the Royal Society of Chemistry to maximise service delivery, high availability, performance optimisation and ensuring that services are efficient at accomplishing their duties, even as those duties scale and evolve.
Location : City Cambridge or United Kingdom
Salary: £52,191 – £57,990
Position Type: Permanent Full-Time or Part-Time
Closing Date: 06/01/2022
We are looking for someone with:
- Technical skills and experience, coupled with emerging technology opportunity awareness, to produce detailed proposals and architectures.
- Experience with Amazon Web Services.
- Expert end to end understanding of the delivery of modern web applications (DNS, HTTP, SSL, Load-balancing, edge-delivery (CDN) to persistence layers), and how to effectively monitor and measure availability and reliability of web applications.
- Awareness of security vulnerabilities and mitigation.
- Experience with engineering best practice, such as continuous deployment, infrastructure as code, automation and real-time failover.
The Royal Society of Chemistry is a not-for-profit organisation whose mission is to advance chemical sciences. We are a provider of knowledge, a professional body and a voice for chemical sciences, with a heritage that spans 179 years. We work with industry and academia to promote collaboration and innovation. We advise governments on policy, and we promote the talent, information and ideas that lead to great advances in science.
The Royal Society of Chemistry offers excellent benefits. The contractual base for this role is Cambridge, however we are currently piloting hybrid working, and you may be able to work from a location other than this, as agreed with your line manager. Applicants should be aware that there is an expectation that employees will attend the offices as needed for their role, and that permanent working arrangements away from the office may not be agreed in the future.
If you are interested in this role, please apply before the end of the closing date.
You may have experience of the following: Solutions Architect, Systems Programmer, IT Consultant, Technical Architect, Solution Designer, Systems Consultant, Portfolio Architect, Technical Solutions Manager, Enterprise Architect, Infrastructure Solution Architect, Solution Architect etc.
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