SC Cleared Technical Solutions Architect
Location: Corsham 2 to 3 days per week
Rate: £650 - £700 Outside IR35
Duration: 6 months+
Security Clearance: SC and must be Sole UK National.
We have an urgent requirement for a Technical Solutions Architect to support Interoperability Services & Gateways Hyperion project. Experience of deploying private clouds (on prem, internet isolated) using Linux Red Hat, OpenShift container platform, and using cloud-based automation tools; Git, Kubernetes, etc in a dev-ops environment.
Essential Skills:
- Experience in cloud-based, mission and business applications and data platforms and the secure development and use of AI/ML, cyber risk assessment, mitigation, information assurance and accreditation support.
- Have demonstrable understanding of automated lifecycle support and deployment of well-engineered and secure micro and cloud services.
- Have demonstrable understanding of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) solutions.
- Have demonstratable experience in working to principles such as Zero-Trust, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Cloud-Native, GitOps, Secure by Design.
- Have demonstratable understanding of Microsoft Windows Server and Remote Desktop Services, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL Server.
- Have demonstratable experience with cross-domain solutions.
- Have demonstrable understanding of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
- Have a working knowledge of the following.
- Directory Services, i.e., Identity
- Domain Name Services (DNS)
- Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
- Boundary Protection services
- Network Time Protocol (NTP)
- Protective, Security, and System Monitoring services
- Have a comprehensive and detailed understanding of modern software defined datacentre technologies.
- Strong and demonstrable knowledge of interoperability gateways and user applications such as Email, Chat, Browse, SharePoint, secure Voice, and Video Teleconferencing.
- Demonstratable experience of overall responsibility to produce Communication and Information Systems across projects and programmes within Ministry of Defence.
- Experience in producing high quality technical artefacts in line with the Ministry of Defence standards and policies (e.g., JSP101, JSP440, JSP604 etc).
- Demonstrable experience of BiZZDesign Architect/Enterprise Studio.
Due to the nature of the work, candidates are required to hold active security clearance to SC level and be a sole British national. Please familiarise yourself with the security vetting process before applying.