Overview

Summer-Browning Associates is currently supporting our central government client, who is seeking a Solution Architect for an initial six-month assignment with the option to extend.

Location: Hybrid working - East Kilbride

Role

You will be responsible for ensuring architectural coherence, governance, and alignment with organisational objectives, while enabling delivery teams to build secure, scalable, and sustainable solutions.

Responsibilities

• Responsibilities are described in the overview and role statements above.

Qualifications and Experience

• Active SC clearance and a strong background in delivering Solution Architecture support, with the following skills and experience:
• Experience designing and implementing cloud solutions across major providers (e.g. Azure, AWS, GCP, Oracle)
• Experience navigating platform-specific features and optimising and automating (IaC) deployments for maximum security, performance, and cost-effectiveness.
• Knowledge of both software and infrastructure design considerations and be comfortable working with engineers.
• Experience architecting and securing solutions within highly sensitive and classified environments, including familiarity with relevant security policies, regulations, and best practices.
• Experience with identity and access management solutions, including privileged access management, and ability to architect secure authentication and authorisation mechanisms. (Desirable)
• Experience with software-defined networking, storage, and compute solutions, including virtualization technologies and their implementation in government data centres. (Desirable)