Solution Architect - SC ClearedMax Rate: 525 a day (Inside IR35)Duration: Initailly 6 months with a strong chance of extension Clearance required: SC Location: London, Croydon - largely remoteYou will join a global IT Consultancy delivering digital transformation to the Home Office. Solution Architects are required for one of the largest AWS based developer platforms in the UK, which supports 100+ teams and runs multiple critical workloads. The work you will take on is split into three key areas. Firstly, architects pick up new requirements from our teams, understand their needs, proposing options and getting the design governed and into delivery teams. Due to the scale of the platform, solutions often touch multiple areas and close working with other architects is essential to ensure ''tribal knowledge'' is exploited. The second area is supporting teams with delivery and service. Inevitably delivery teams encounter problems in delivering against the roadmap or with incidents that need architect support to analyse and resolve. Lastly, architects work on longer term strategies or ad hoc pieces of work delegated by the Senior Management Team.Key Skills and ExperienceMandatory Strong understanding of core AWS services; VPCs, subnets, EC2, lambda, s3, route 53, VPC endpoints Good understanding of networking - TCP/IP, DNS, routing, proxy patterns Good understanding of containers and Kubernetes (does not require detailed Kubernetes knowledge, more the broad architecture) Design do