Kainos

Platform Solution Architect

Kainos

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

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Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

Tech Stack

AWSAzureCloudGoGroovyKubernetesPythonRuby

About the role

  • Championing a DevOps culture - You’ll lead colleagues in engineering, testing, consulting, product management and security capabilities to design solutions of the highest quality which meet all non-functional requirements – you’ll do all that it takes to ensure Kainos delivery projects are successful.
  • Championing technology for positive impact – You’ll keep appraised of the latest technologies/tools and champion their use for benefit both within and outside of Kainos.
  • Developing Kainos as a business – You contribute to technology strategy and help Kainos to identify, qualify and win new opportunities.
  • Providing Leadership – You’ll provide technical leadership – typically across projects - which may sometimes require you to be hands-on and on others to take difficult, but necessary decisions.
  • Being opinionated – As a respected leader, you’ll offer your opinions and critique with a view to improve the quality of our solutions. You won’t wait to be asked, you’ll proactively share knowledge through internal Kainos forums and more widely in industry.
  • Being a role model – You’ll support your colleagues and reconcile the needs of the individual with the needs of the team, you will embody the Kainos values. You’ll be the person people look up to – people trust your decisions because they are transparent and justified. You’ll be passionate and committed to ensuring Kainos projects are successful.
  • Putting people first & developing others – You’ll manage, coach and develop a small number of senior staff, with a focus on managing employee performance and assisting in their career development.

Requirements

  • Excellent verbal and written communications skills, with the ability to simply and clearly communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience.
  • Excellent prioritisation and time management skills, with the ability to work across a number of major projects simultaneously.
  • We all work in teams here in Kainos – a proven ability of strong team leadership skills across teams and fostering a DevOps culture.
  • We are passionate about developing people – a demonstrated ability in managing, coaching and developing senior members of your team and wider community.
  • Demonstrable personal ownership of: o Delivering all aspects of modern digital service platforms in production environments o Prioritizing non-functional concerns for customers and incorporating them into the platform design o Making effective – and sometimes difficult - decisions within fast-moving delivery environments and owning the outcomes
  • Significant expertise in: o Using multiple public cloud platforms (AWS and Azure) to build solutions across a variety of problem domains and integrating native SaaS and PaaS offerings into your solution. o Understanding of whole solution architecture concepts. o Utilizing the latest Continuous Delivery techniques for releasing operationally ready software to production.
  • Demonstrable experience in: o Using the latest container orchestration platforms including Kubernetes. o Applying cloud Native tooling and approaches. o Pro-actively developing business within an account with sales and account managers. o Proven experience being accountable for all sizes of technology delivery challenges, e.g. project, multi-team programme. o Developing and contributing to businesses cases promoting public cloud adoption.