Jobs

Soft Practice works with highly classified organisations, providing expert technical consultancy to complex and challenging projects. We are currently looking for Cloud Solution Architect / Consultants who can bring a mix of consultancy skills and practical hands-on architecture skills to guide and support our clients.

These roles will work as part of our Cloud Architecture service, providing guidance and help, shaping client strategy, solving complex architectural challenges, supporting teams in cloud and agile ways of working, and building client skills.

We can sponsor new UK DV security clearance which is required for most of our roles.

Cloud Big Data Architect

We are looking for a Big Data Architect to join our team to work with a specific product team on reinventing an architecture in AWS.

Key skills:

• Experience of building real cloud projects
• AWS Certification (AWS SA Associate minimum, Professional preferred)
• AWS Big Data Approaches
• Accumulo & HDFS
• Large scale indexing, query planning and results caching approaches

Details: Hyrbid working, 2-3 days onsite in Cheltenham offices and working at home

We can offer engagement as a direct employee or via specific client-approved Umbrellas on an inside-IR35 basis. No agencies or recruiters please.

If you’re interested, please apply now.

Cloud Solution Architect/Consultant

We are still looking for two or three more Cloud Architect/Consultants to join our team of 8 Architects.

We generally look for a mix of skills from the below, but we’re also especially intereted in Architects that have a specialism in:

• FinOps
• Regulatory/Legal Compliance
• High Security
• Big Data

General Role Requirements:

• Experience of building real cloud projects
• AWS Certification (AWS SA Associate minimum, Professional preferred along with Certified Developer or a specialism e.g. Big Data or AI/ML)
• Programming experience in JavaScript, Python
• AWS Infrastructure as Code skills and CI/CD experience
• Architecture experience, including high complexity approaches
• Technical Business Change skills
• Good technical communication skills
• A good mix of Cloud experience covering most of the following:
  • IaaS skills: EC2, autoscaling, ELBs, patterns (bastion or no?)
  • PaaS skills: Docker, OpenShift, EKS, Fargate, ECS
  • Serverless skills: API Gateway, Lambda, DynamoDB, R53
  • web skills: HTML, CSS, JS, static site generation
  • big data skills: HDFS, MapReduce, Accumulo
  • ML/AI skills: corpus management, training, inference

Role Description:

• This role will require UK DV security clearance
• Work will involve engaging with client teams who are building complex systems, providing cloud transformation consultancy covering the full range of 6Rs
• Work will be partially partially onsite at client sites and partially remote or from home
• You will work as part of a mixed supplier team to a variety of client development teams
• Full time employment, or day-rate zero-hours (inside IR35) available

If you’re interested, please apply now.