Key Responsibilities
- Provide architectural leadership across multiple programmes and complex technical domains
- Define, assure and review high-level solution designs and architecture artefacts
- Shape and assure automation strategies across build, test, release and operations
- Review and challenge CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code and configuration-management approaches
- Support complex technical investigations, framing hypotheses and understanding cross-platform dependencies
- Ensure architecture decisions account for the full service lifecycle - deployment, patching, monitoring, DR
- Lead governance frameworks, reusable templates and reference architectures
- Mentor solution architects and act as final escalation point for architectural decisions
- Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure compliance with internal policy and external regulation
Ideal Candidate
- Practical hands-on experience in solution/technical architecture, comfortable at the command line and reviewing infrastructure code
- Strong automation and DevSecOps understanding - CI/CD, configuration management, IaC
- Practical experience with Terraform/CloudFormation-style IaC, including state, testing, policy and drift management
- Working knowledge of Git-based CI/CD platforms (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins)
- Configuration/scripting ability across PowerShell, Python, Bash, Ansible
- Strong understanding of at least one major cloud platform plus hybrid/on-prem environments
- Good architectural understanding of containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Proven stakeholder management and ability to influence senior technical and non-technical audiences
- Experience creating technical standards, blueprints and reference architectures across multiple services
Desirable Experience
- On-premise classified environment architecture and security accreditation
- Zero Trust principles, identity-based access control, micro-segmentation
- Identity & Access Management, including privileged access management
- Software-defined data centres and virtualisation in government environments
TL;DR
Job Title: Solution Architect (Automation-Led)
Contract Length: 6 months
Location: East Kilbride (Hybrid, ~3 days/week onsite)
Rate: £800+ per day
IR35 Status: Inside IR35
Start Date: ASAP
Clearance: DV
Rate:
£800/day
Location:
East Kilbride
IR35 Status:
Inside
Remote Status:
Hybrid
Industry:
IT
Seniority Level:
Senior