Infrastructure Architect

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Who Speclialist Work With They will work as part of a Technical Design Authority who are responsible for specific domains. They will need to collaborate closely with delivery teams and business stakeholders across the enterprise in a multi-supplier environment. HM Passport Office is moving from a large outsourced SI arrangement to an in-house, largely cloud based and open source based solutions delivered iteratively. What Specialists Work On Work packages include, but aren't limited to: 1. Technical lead on migration designs to HMPOP s new shared AWS platform 2 – Technical design on HMPO shared AWS platform 3 – Technical design on HMPO SSS/PKI capability 4 – Technical security and governance of the new shared platform 5 - SME in the TDA for AWS services covering infrastructure, networks and security Where the Work Takes Place Central London Early Market Engagement Working Arrangements Typically on-site with wider team and clients in an Agile environment. Some site visits. Use of Confluence, Jira and Ardoq are the tools used to track progress against deliverables. Work Location Central London Security Clearance SC Clearance is required. HM Passport Office will support the clearance process. Additional T&Cs Skills & Experience Proven track record of migrating and architecting in a hybrid-environments, migrating from data centres to Cloud (AWS) platforms Good experience of Networks, network hardware, network tools and Network Security on both cloud and traditional networking Very good knowledge and experience designing logical and physical solutions using AWS services such as EC2, IAM, RDS, VPC, Direct Connect, Guardduty etc Proven experience working in containerised environments using Kubernetes and surrounding ecosystem: Docker, Helm, KOPS etc. Solid experience of designing secure architecture in a public sector environment Good understanding/experience with DevOps tools, culture and automation (terraform, puppet, ansible, scripting, Jenkin). Including development workflows, CI and other open source tools Nice to Haves Experience of HMPO systems or similar government operational systems Experience of GDS best practices No. of Specialists to Evaluate 3 Cultural Fit Criteria Work as a team with our organisation and other suppliers Be transparent and collaborative Be comfortable standing up for their discipline Have a no-blame culture and take responsibility for their work Assessment Method Evaluation Weighting Technical competence 65% Cultural fit 15% Price 20% Questions from Suppliers Budget range 800