Cloud Infrastructure Architect

Hybrid Working with Glasgow or Dundee Base Location

£57,141 - £71,243 + £5,000 DDaT Pay Supplement after 3 month qualifying period

Full or Part Time Hours | Flexi-time | 25 Days annual leave (increasing to 30 after 4 years’ service) plus 11.5 Public and Privilege Holidays

Contributory Pension Scheme (employee contributions 7.35% employer contributions 28.97%)

Are you a Senior Infrastructure Architect with experience in cloud environments and networking? Would you like to work on large-scale design challenges with the latest technology from AWS? We are looking for an experienced architect to join our expanding friendly team of Cloud Architects here at Social Security Scotland. This is a unique opportunity to define the cloud infrastructure of the first new public service in Scotland for over fifty years.

As an expert in your profession, your skills and decision making will impact the wellbeing of millions throughout Scotland. The Architecture and Design branch, part of our Chief Digital Office, is a team of around 40 highly skilled individuals. The team is split into six architecture domains: solution, cloud, enterprise, data, business, and application architecture. We develop high-level architecture and solution designs for all technologies underpinning the Chief Digital Office delivery capability and focus on creating frameworks to sustainably prioritise, plan and deliver change.

We are looking for an accomplished Cloud Infrastructure Architect who enjoys working in a broad, varied role with lots of business exposure. You will have strong visibility across the entire company and therefore excellent communication and relationship building skills are a must. This is an exciting time to join and you will utilise leading edge tools along the way both to create new platforms and ensure continuous enhancements of a Scotland and UK first.

Candidates should be knowledgeable (significant experience of designing and implementing at enterprise-scale) and have hands-on experience with AWS cloud concepts (cloud architect certification preferred). Experience in networks is preferred as is a background in high availability architecture. Experience working across various domains, developers, managers, and executives is required as is the ability to demonstrate and explain complex solutions. You will have the opportunity to work with a variety of AWS services with other architects and specialists in security and engineering.

This role presents a unique opportunity to play a pivotal role in investing in and designing solutions for Social Security Scotland. Reporting into the Lead Cloud Architect, you will be responsible for taking infrastructure design patterns/low-level designs and working collaboratively to deliver a robust cloud infrastructure.

What Do We Offer You?

• Meaningful and engaging careers, a collaborative culture, and support for your career goals, all while nurturing a healthy work-life balance.
• Salary between £57,141 - £71,243 plus a £5,000 annual Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) pay supplement after a 3 month qualifying period.
• Flexible working arrangements with potential of up to 4 days off per month.
• Annual leave allowance of 5 weeks, rising to 6 weeks after 4 years.
• Workplace adjustments for everyone that needs them to ensure comfort and safety in your new role.
• Learning and development opportunities to support personal and professional growth.
• Career progression – join a rapidly growing and developing organisation with excellent opportunities for career advancement.
• Health and wellbeing support including 24 hour access to our Employee Assistance Programme, plus counselling support available for all.
• Discounts on gym memberships and retail outlets.

DDaT Pay Supplement

This post attracts a £5,000 DDaT pay supplement after a 3 months DDaT competency qualifying period. The payment will be backdated to your start date in the role. Pay supplements are temporary payments designed to address recruitment and retention issues caused by market pressures and are subject to regular review. This post is part of the Scottish Government DDaT profession. As a member of the profession, you will join the professional development scheme, currently BCS Role Model plus.

Hybrid Working

We embrace a hybrid working style where all colleagues will spend time in either our Glasgow or Dundee offices. There is an expectation of a minimum of 2 days per week in your assigned location. Base office location can be in either Dundee or Glasgow.

About Us

Social Security Scotland is an Executive Agency of the Scottish Government. Our benefits help people from all walks of life in Scotland. We are committed to recruiting a diverse workforce that is representative of the clients we serve.

Responsibilities

• Design effective cloud first solutions and networks that support cutting-edge service design.
• Demonstrate your ability to influence and work collaboratively across a broad matrix of specialists and experts.
• Articulately present designs and solutions at the highest level and in a compelling manner.
• Work closely with security colleagues to define highly available, resilient, scalable and fault tolerant end-to-end solution architecture.
• Work with a diverse supplier landscape to select and maximise the value of cutting-edge technology, as well as the latest policies and principles.
• Network and collaborate externally with likeminded professionals as a representative of the organisation.
• Utilise public cloud platforms such as AWS to host and enable line of business applications and services.
• Lead the conversation on network architecture and work with security colleagues.

Qualifications

An accomplished infrastructure architecture professional; cloud architect certification preferred or demonstrable equivalent experience of designing large, robust, and complex architecture in cloud or traditional data centres.